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JUNE 23, 2021

For established companies who rely on a remote workforce, like BELAY —a staffing company that provides virtual support teams—this rush of productivity is no surprise. Not only are their virtual teams productive, they’re also happier, earning “best workplaces” honors despite not actually having a workplace, per se.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2020

I have written 5 books for assistants, educated 300,000+ assistants, have worked with 70+ Fortune 500 companies, and coached 300+ executive/assistant teams. They are not paid the big bucks to manage a calendar and book flights. A great executive assistant looks at the entire calendar for a month—what happened last week?

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MARCH 3, 2023

Hold a team meeting. Team meetings on Friday can be a great way to recap the week and plan for the next one. Review next week’s calendar before leaving work on Friday. Review your calendar for Monday, so you have a head start on the week. A good practice to cultivate is reviewing what went well and celebrating it.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

What if we told you there was an easy way for your small business to do it—reducing your workload, helping the team complete tasks more efficiently, improving communication, making it easier to meet tight deadlines and, ultimately, just making things work better? You know the old adage “work smarter, not harder”?

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Powered by Google’s Gemini and its unique combination of large language model (LLM) and natural language processing (NLP), it generates poems, emails, scripts, computer code and more. Writesonic won’t replace your team members. Both generate blog, social media, email and other content. will write blogs and emails.

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MARCH 30, 2023

Cohen , franchise development team lead at Neighborly® , goes even further—suggesting you divide the workday into blocks of time dedicated to specific tasks to better focus while working from home. You can mark these blocks on your email calendar—Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar, for instance—so it sends you reminders to stop and start.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

An app can have many exciting features, like monitoring multiple goals, a task manager or to-do lists, access to a personal coach and integration with your calendar or other apps. Users can track their progress individually or with a team or group and fight in-app monsters together for super accountability. 10 best goal setting apps 1.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

SimplyWise : Available in the Apple App Store, SimplyWise is designed to help users record expenses by scanning and uploading paper receipts and saving email receipts. Structured : This is a visual calendar you can download from the Apple App Store. You can use it to save recipes, make meal plans and create grocery lists.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Ease into your day You open your eyes, silence your phone alarm, press your mail app and start thumbing through your emails. It could simply be taking the time the night before to select your outfit, pack lunches and check your calendar, ensuring the morning hours are much calmer. Protecting mental health at work for employees 1.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Suited for busy individuals and small teams, Ayoa also comes with all the features you’d expect in a project management platform: sharing, deadlines, task prioritization, chat and more. For teams, Todoist is $5 per month. For larger teams or those who need additional features, paid plans start at $5 per user per month.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

APRIL 23, 2023

In this episode, Claudette talks about her journey as an assistant, tips for calendar management, delegating, evolving as the job evolves, email management, and dealing with difficult executives. Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live. Either way, I’d love to hear from you!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Check out this great tool » Favorite Planning/Calendar Tool - Readers Speak Out There are many ways to manage your time and activities.  What is your favorite planning/calendar tool and why? What is your favorite planning/calendar tool and why? Of all the calendar tools I know, this one handles tasks the best.

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Tips From T. Marie

APRIL 26, 2024

It’s Lead Generation Gold : When visitors provide their email in exchange for your content, voila, you’ve got a lead! If you’re a whiz at time management, how about a snazzy, interactive checklist to help them reclaim their calendar? It’s a win-win: they get valuable info, and you get to show off your expertise.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Try This Instead | Main | Be Smart About Using the Telephone » The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh In We are in the home stretch of 2009 -- bring on 2010!!    One item frequently purchased at this time of year is a calendar or planner for the upcoming year. 

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JUNE 20, 2024

If you wish you could spend less time on repetitive work tasks, such as writing meeting notes or drafting internal memos and emails, you might consider experimenting with generative artificial intelligence (AI). For instance, if you’ve ever written an email and used a suggested word to finish your sentence, then you have used AI.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 21, 2017

I am also committed to being supportive of my Executive and his team with professional maturity. It is unlikely that I would be able to support everyone at once in my team, but it is also important that I am clear about how to negotiate that same support and manage our mutual expectations realistically and honestly.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 2, 2017

I literally wouldn’t know what I was doing without my inbox and calendar organised just so. I think the way people structure their email files can be quite a personal thing! I like to keep it fairly simple, but I also like to keep every single email. Here is a little diagram of my email file structure. .

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

And that’s precisely what you must deal with every day if you lead a team or run a business. A customizable dashboard lets users view and track projects, budgets, and workloads across teams. But if you are a beginner, you can also choose from dozens of customizable templates that simplify balancing workloads across a team.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 20, 2019

Some of the changes we have seen take place are: Communication with CEO Had business cards made for myself and gave to CEO to travel with and distribute Expressed ideas and opinions to improve processes Clarify instructions to prevent rework Managing CEO’s email Re-edit subject line Archiving old email Set up priority Alert on mobile Calendar Management (..)

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 29, 2019

Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. Pay attention to non-verbal cues when working with others to schedule meetings, if you are talking face-to-face or on the telephone or even in an email. Excellent team building exercises. This program is head and shoulders above the rest!

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MARCH 5, 2024

Visible productivity’s origins started much before that, when work shifted from using our talents to do a job, to completing all the tasks “around” work, such as that never-ending email inbox. Newport calls this “pseudo” productivity: “The use of visible activity as the primary means of approximating actual productive effort.”

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JULY 30, 2024

Now, three times per day, an email goes out to 22,000 users for free, with a zero-tolerance policy for AI, spam and fake accounts. His consulting work focuses on helping companies attract, hire and retain neurodiverse team members. Walker labels these days as “pill days” on his calendar.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

In fact, when first launching, SparkToro opted to outsource talent rather than add more in-house team members. Slowly introduce them to the team and clients. Maybe it’s a 10% increase in email sales in Q1 — but is that a year-over-year increase, or a quarter-over-quarter one? Ask for referrals (and work samples).

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Andrea Kalli

JULY 19, 2010

Website and landing page design and strategies to increase the likelihood of sign-ups are beyond the scope of this guide, but suffice to say you will want to inform the visitor with all the great benefits of subscribing to your email list and the value your online business can provide. Observe your results and continue from there.

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Andrea Kalli

JULY 19, 2010

Website and landing page design and strategies to increase the likelihood of sign-ups are beyond the scope of this guide, but suffice to say you will want to inform the visitor with all the great benefits of subscribing to your email list and the value your online business can provide. Observe your results and continue from there.

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Tips From T. Marie

AUGUST 7, 2023

From managing their calendars, emails, and travel arrangements to handling administrative tasks with precision, your efficiency, and professionalism will be in high demand. Help aspiring leaders hone their skills, build emotional intelligence, and develop strategies to lead their teams successfully.

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 6, 2010

While ten years ago, managing email could have been a secondary consideration, today it is absolutely vital to keep customers and clients in the loop through rapid, prompt email support. Service businesses will always need to devote more time to emails than product-based businesses. Limit your daily email quota.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

  I've tried delegating through email, google and drop box.  It gives you a place to list all of your projects, tasks and to-do's that is portable, allows you to access it from any device, can be used by up to 15 team members, and is free ( yes, free! ). 2 - Keep Your Team Coordinated and Aligned to Their Goals.

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 13, 2020

I have a deep admiration and appreciation for those who dedicate themselves to support roles, which is one of the reasons I now focus a large part of my corporate training business on working with administrative teams. Admin assistants generally provide support to a team or group of people, a department, or a specific business function.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

One minute, I was at my desk, working and checking emails like any other Monday morning, when a sudden calendar invite for a “quick meeting” with my manager popped up. Few experiences are as gut-wrenching and emotionally devastating as getting laid off.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

“It is designed to foster inclusive discussions, bringing the fluid interactions of in-person work to distributed, hybrid teams throughout their work day. In addition to Zoom Spots, the company will integrate email and a calendar into its main app, allowing users to seamlessly move between all work-necessary apps. Credit: Zoom.

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JUNE 2, 2023

For example, in the early 2010s, one Ottawa-based employee tried to push back against a concerning payroll system, but was told she “wasn’t being a team player.” She adds that though the employees can take action, it’s really on the leaders to create a psychologically safe environment for team members to air concerns.

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Eat Your Career

JULY 20, 2021

I use a system for managing email and other virtual correspondence and do not let it pile up. My team and I have a clear, agreed upon vocabulary for discussing priorities. I keep a rigorous calendaring system to manage my time-based events and activities. Perhaps prioritization or email management?

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Then put them in your calendar before anything else. This means 20% of your customers will account for 80% of your sales, 20% of your products will account for 80% of your profits and 20% of your team members will account for 80% of the group’s success. Most people schedule their days with a mix of high- and low-value activities.

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Worxbee

MAY 3, 2021

Perhaps you’re not sure whether you need an EA for an individual, or for supporting a team of executives. Here, we’re looking at a few things to consider before you hire an executive assistant and make the decision about individual or team support: How much work is needed? In fact, many people don’t realize that’s possible!

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Allwork

MARCH 9, 2023

One of the standout features of Nexudus is its email newsletter service.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, “Create a 30-day social media calendar and captions for five posts per day. You have 150 Instagram posts that would normally take a human team days to create. After only two hours, I had the copy for a squeeze page, a 12-page sales page, 20 social media posts, 11 marketing emails and ad copy. And, voilà!

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