Allwork

AUGUST 30, 2022

Leverage existing and emerging technologies to enhance collaboration, connection, trust, and productivity. . So, how do you increase profitability and productivity while reducing costs and retaining a happy and loyal workforce? An effective, accepted, and well-understood culture can keep teams more productive.

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Success

MARCH 5, 2024

At the end of a productive day, how do you feel? If your answer is exhausted and depleted, instead of proud and energized, you might need to rethink the definition of “productive” altogether. Slow productivity is. Hustle culture is not the answer. Hustle culture is not the answer. Two things happened at the same time.

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ProAssisting Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Role of a Remote Executive Assistant A remote executive assistant isn’t just about scheduling meetings and answering emails. They've honed their skills in managing tasks, coordinating teams, and ensuring project deadlines are met. They're the versatile professionals who streamline your work life.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And as of this past May, employee productivity had declined for five straight quarters. It seems counterintuitive, but science shows that taking a meaningful break—or better yet, a vacation—can ultimately increase creativity and productivity, and contribute to a business’ overall success.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 8, 2023

In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Joe talks about recruiting, training, and managing virtual assistants, email management, tips for business process standardization, and the biggest mistake he’s ever made in working with an assistant. LEADERSHIP QUOTE Allow your team to fail fast and successes will come even faster.

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Success

JUNE 22, 2021

Sales managers can best support their sales teams by helping each seller identify the mindsets that are limiting his or her sales performance—and then helping the seller overcome those mindsets. Sales managers must help their teams identify and eliminate these restrictive mindsets. What is a sales mindset?

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Workplace Insight

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Now a new report suggests that a third of UK workers admit to ‘pretend productivity’ by other means. For workers that are expected to be flexible with their hours to accommodate after-hours messages, emails, and meetings, this pressure intensifies, leading to 44 percent of employees engaging in fake productivity.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

MARCH 12, 2023

Lexi Gunther went from being a high school dropout to being a well-paid, EA Team Lead. She has been an EA and thought partner since 2009 and currently works at Cedar, a health-tech company, where she manages the Executive Support Team and is the Executive Assistant to the Head of Product. Either way, I’d love to hear from you!

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Success

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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Success

MARCH 13, 2022

These examples have one thing in common: From start to finish, these business people and their teams thrilled their customers. I look forward to working with you to reduce the time between your client’s call for repairs and when your service team arrives on-site.” She and her team captured more than 1,250 shots on our special day.

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Productivityist

MAY 13, 2024

In the pursuit of being truly productive, aligning one’s cognitive strategies and habits with the natural rhythm of the body clock isn’t just wise; it’s a necessity. This alignment requires a blend of two often overlooked and yet pivotal elements in the productivity equation: Reason and Refinement.

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Allwork

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

By insisting on a one-size-fits-all office model, Amazon risks diminishing overall productivity rather than enhancing it. However, this approach seems to disregard the substantial body of research supporting hybrid work models over full-time office work in terms of productivity, employee performance, and retention.

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Allwork

JULY 8, 2024

Leaders should evaluate team engagement, productivity, and dynamics to determine the need for a retreat, considering goals like strategic alignment, morale boost, and enhanced collaboration. A well-planned work retreat can foster team cohesion, boost morale, and spark innovation, but it requires thoughtful preparation.

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Allwork

JULY 18, 2024

Ensuring employee satisfaction through flexible work arrangements and clear communication guidelines is key to retaining top talent and maintaining productivity in a remote environment. WithMe, for example, organized their Slack with appropriate channel groups for different teams, leadership groups, and cross-functional teams.

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Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

As organisations navigate these complex issues, the focus shifts towards fostering a work environment that not only boosts productivity but also embraces the diversity of work preferences across different age groups. Such policies should be regularly reviewed to adapt to changing circumstances and employee feedback.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 5, 2017

A really fundamental task for assistants is organising your department team meetings. If your organisation is anything like the businesses I used to work for I bet you organise A LOT of team meetings. Simple ground rules for team meetings. How can ground rules help attendees be more productive? No PowerPoint .

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this chapter, I cover tactics for managing your own email inbox, as well as your executive’s. Of course, I’d love to hear your email tips and tricks as I’m always down to get more efficient and productive, so please reach out! LEADERSHIP QUOTE Email is the gateway drug of work; Slack is the crack.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 12, 2024

Keep reading to learn why a business owner needs an executive assistant (EA), how an EA maximizes productivity, and how to find the ideal assistant to help you and your organization succeed. Because marketing, sales, communications, operations, team building, and strategizing all take enormous work. Why do executives need an EA?

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Allwork

MAY 1, 2024

Slack boasts that using the app reduces emails by 32% and meetings by 27%, which could be a major benefit for teams looking to cut down on unproductive activities. The Microsoft Teams app gained major traction throughout the years of 2020 and 2022, rising from 75 million daily active users to 280 million in this two-year time span.

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Allwork

JULY 31, 2023

The average employee spends a little over half of their time communicating via emails, meetings and chats. Communicating with ease was meant to promote productivity and connection, not hinder them — so balance is key. When communication turns into constant interruptions and distractions, it hampers productivity.

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Success

JULY 15, 2024

Orum’s 2023 report, The State of Sales Development , offers some proof: Of the 11 industries surveyed, eight chose the phone as their most important outbound tool, and all 11 industries included the phone in their top three tools, in addition to email and social media. Buyers are interested in cold calls, too. Does cold calling work?

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Worxbee

JANUARY 24, 2022

When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” - Simon Sinek Your team members are the basis of your business success. When they are engaged, they are emotionally invested in the success of your team and will do their best to contribute. Improve employee productivity. Your team wants to hear from you!

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 20, 2017

This is the second article in a two-part series on productivity apps for admins by Julie Perrine. As an administrative professional, you need to be productive and organized wherever you go. Just forward your confirmation emails to the app (hotel, rental car, airline tickets, etc.), It’s what I use to keep my own team on track.

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Success

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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All Things Admin

JANUARY 23, 2024

They’re equally as important for your team members. If you’re ready to share your procedures with your team, here are some tips to help you get started. Send out a quick department-wide email or speak up in the next staff meeting to let people know where to find your procedures. Start with a hands-on approach.

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All Things Admin

APRIL 5, 2022

Administrative Professionals Week (April 24 – 30, 2022) is an excellent time to show your admin team how much you appreciate their hard work and dedication, especially as they have weathered the global health crisis of the past couple years. is a fantastic way to personalize your appreciation to each of your admin team members.

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Allwork

JULY 5, 2023

Guiding a reconstituted team after layoffs, particularly in a hybrid setup, is no easy task. Workforce downsizing can trigger feelings of fear, uncertainty, and stress, particularly within hybrid teams where reassurance through in-person contact is limited.

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Allwork

MAY 29, 2024

Procrastination crushes career outlooks because it hurts personal growth, mental well-being, and your personal productivity. Some people feel they are more productive on a shorter deadline, but that’s because they are forced to produce work faster out of necessity. for in-office team members.

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Small Business CEO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Team Collaboration software is the ultimate source to boost your team’s productivity while the members work from home and connect virtually. But unless you evaluate the features thoroughly, you may not be able to decide which team collaboration software is best suited for your organization. Real time conversations.

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Productivityist

MARCH 3, 2021

Cal Newport is back on the show to uncover his magnum opus on why we work the way we work today, and why we need to change our relationship with email. With TextExpander, you can unlock your productivity with its many features. Unlock your productivity with TextExpander. A World Without Email’ by Cal Newport.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Work emails trickle in after hours. Whether it’s checking emails on the commute home, thinking about work at the dinner table or stressing about the latest project first thing in the morning.” Job satisfaction and productivity increase when you feel more in control of your workload and personal time.

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Tips From T. Marie

AUGUST 6, 2024

As someone who’s built a career around providing online services—whether as a virtual assistant, a remote team member, or in another support role—this is a valid concern. Imagine freeing up hours of your day by letting AI handle scheduling, email sorting, or even basic client communications.

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Allwork

JULY 17, 2023

Instead of investing in AI-solutions to solve workplace well-being issues, companies would be better off taking a hard look at the workplace culture itself. Not only would this be more cost-effective, but the results are also far better and will lead to a happier, healthier and more productive workplace.

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Success

JANUARY 11, 2024

Over the past year, I have seen many ads for various AI products that promise to completely improve some aspect of daily life through calendar management, content writing and even ad generation. Here is the caveat: AI can help, but it absolutely cannot replace your team and the effort that you put into your strategy.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2023

Along the way, this transformation offered the future of work plenty of space to be reimagined , including how (and from where) teams function. AppSumo hired 11 VAs to off-load customer support and product management from their “A-level players.” Why might your team need to hire virtual assistants?

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

There is an entire team that works hard to coordinate this conference and they have shared their answers to a few candid questions and provided a glimpse behind the scenes! Meet the entire Office Dynamics International Team –. I then put a rough design together and run it by the team to get their thoughts and feedback.

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Executive Leadership Support Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Integrating Microsoft Forms into Your Outlook Email. Do you ever have the need to email a quick survey to several people? For instance, as people “voted” a separate email was sent to you from each person. It was even tricky to find where to add voting buttons to your email message! vote easily from the body of the email.

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