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Managing Social Media Profiles
Managing Social Media profiles In today's digital age, social media has become an indispensable tool for businesses and individuals. As an Assistant, you might find yourself tasked with managing your Executive's [...]
What do you want in your next role?
What do you want in your next role? One of the most common interview questions is ‘what do you want in your new role?’ so it makes sense to think about this before you [...]
Making your hybrid meeting more effective
Making your hybrid meeting more effective Most of you will have been organising meetings with a mixture of people joining the meeting in person and others joining virtually. You’ll know without a solid set-up, [...]
Working with a dismissive Executive
Working with a dismissive Executive In fast-paced working environments, it can be easy for Executives not to listen to their team effectively. We are all running at one hundred miles per hour, and often, [...]
How to make your invisible work visible
How to make your invisible work visible Having spent over a decade working with and training Assistants, one of the many challenges I hear is that Assistants do a lot of work that goes unnoticed. [...]
Effective Email Management for Strategic Assistants
Effective email management for strategic Assistants Most people know that effective inbox management is one of the most important things they can do to improve their productivity. A well-managed inbox makes a massive difference [...]
Learning self-advocacy
Learning self-advocacy There will be many times in an Assistants career when they will be asked to do something they don't have time to do, don't fit in with their goals, feel uncomfortable doing it, [...]
Working with Founders
Working with Founders We recently sat down with a wonderful panel of Assistants to discuss the differences between Assistants working with Founders rather than CEOs or other C-suite Executives. We talked about working under [...]