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How to Plan Events Your Team Will Love (Without the Stress)

Eat Your Career

Set clear goals. When you define your desired outcome for your event, you can streamline your decision-making because you will know if an idea does, or does not, help you reach your event goals. It may seem obvious, but you want to make sure that the space where you choose to host your event supports your event goals.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

Office Dynamics

Scheduling a performance evaluation meeting and setting measurable goals can be stressful or even seem unproductive to some. The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity.

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What It Means to Be a Career Executive Assistant

Worxbee

An executive assistant, on the other hand, often takes more of a project management role. They are proactive about ensuring the company has good systems and processes so that tasks can be streamlined and goals can be met. For example, many EAs find themselves asked to head up new internal committees or initiatives.

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Succession Planning For Your Executive Assistant Team: What HR Leaders Need to Know

Worxbee

EAs to senior executives often take a leadership/project management role and could leave a huge hole if they left. Think about company goals and where you aim to be in one, two, or five years – how will succession planning help? Consider the impacts on leadership as well.

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Job descriptions for Personal Assistants – Merited or inherited?

Practically Perfect PA

Project Management – Time Management, Critical Thinking and Coordination Skills. Event Management – Deductive and Inductive Reasoning. Strategic Research – Compile data and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees and boards of directors.

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4 Reasons Why She is in Love with @Asana and Her Team Has Never Been More Productive - App Review and How-To

Stephanie LH Calahan

" Then, I heard this comment: "I use Asana for task and project management, and the app is on my iPhone and iPad, so I can see all of my tasks at a glance and add to them if needed. I’m enjoying a new love affair… with my task management tool! Task/Project Management Tool: Asana. And I am willing to share.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Amy : I am currently an Executive Assistant at Skyscanner to the CTO, Director Engineering, Director of Project Management and the Director of HR. To never doubt my ability and stay focused on my goals. I have been in a support role my entire working life, starting in local government almost 10 years ago.