LEADERASSISTANT.COM

JUNE 4, 2023

Chynna Clayton worked in the personal office of Barack and Michelle Obama as their Director of Travel and Event Operations. Prior to Matriarch Made, Chynna worked in the personal office of Barack and Michelle Obama as their Director of Travel and Event Operations. You can email me at podcast@leaderassistant.com.

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Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Take email and online meetings. Before they existed we had to wait for responses to voicemails and letters, or travel to places to speak to one another. And email creates exponential growth in communications , which means more work to read and respond to it all. Digital technologies are speeding up the pace of life.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Attracting Productivity: Work Environments By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Job Seeking , Networking , Productivity D o you think of yourself as a productive person? The work environment is great and I have an amazing boss. Many studies have shown this.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 29, 2019

You would: Take into consideration your executive’s travel. 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. Informal, yet professional environment which encouraged participants by all attendees.”. – Jennie Forcum, CWCA.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 4, 2016

For any of us that have heard Lucy speak, we will know that Matthew is the person that keeps the wheels rolling at Executive Secretary Magazine while Lucy travels around the world promoting the industry. Organising and maintaining multiple email inboxes. Involved in the day to day organisation of the magazine and conferences.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 20, 2018

Last week Office Dynamics sent an email to all of our subscribers saying, “Thank you,” and we also provided the Office Dynamics Top 10 Blogs For Administrative Professionals. If you wish to subscribe to the blog, please enter your email address in the subscribe section that is located at the top right of each blog post.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Motivation: Create a Work Environment that Enhances Your Goals (@GinaParris Video) I'm out on Twitter  meeting new and interesting people all of the time.  Your environment and how it is set up will always have a big impact on what you can get done in a day.  Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 17, 2010

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 17 April, 2010 Keeping focussed in a busy environment There are so many distractions in the office -- the telephone, your co-workers, email and your boss! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets

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Eco-Office Gals

MAY 29, 2018

As a way to combat or prolong the issue, many organizations have opted to go green by creating more eco-friendly working environments. Not only does reducing their carbon footprint helps the environment, but it also helps business. Buy Plants for the Office – What better way to help the environment than to purify the air?

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 20, 2019

On-site coaching is probably the most effective way to create change specific to an assistant’s situation because we are right here in your space seeing exactly what you deal with and how your day flows.

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Success

MARCH 10, 2022

On top of this, a lot of checking accounts charge a fee when you send an email money transfer, have less money than their minimum limit and use your debit card more than X number of times per month. To get around this, buy items you can use more than a handful of times—it’s more economical and friendlier to the environment.

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C-Suite Assistants

JANUARY 9, 2024

How an Executive Personal Assistant Can Aid in Work-Life Balance An executive personal assistant is a seasoned professional tasked with enhancing an executive’s efficiency by taking on personal and professional scheduling, correspondence, and a whole host of other routine tasks—booking travel, managing appointments, planning events, and more.

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Allwork

APRIL 3, 2023

He believes a hybrid environment where teams come together in person several times a week is the best way to re-energize culture and achieve the best productivity. And so, while we all work from offices, we already got exposed to that hybrid work environment because all of our teams were essentially distributed.

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Success

JANUARY 23, 2023

People who are high in openness might enjoy traveling to new places, eating foods they’ve never eaten before and discussing ideas they’re unfamiliar with,” says Marie Forgeard, Ph.D., They are sensitive to the environment they’re in as well as their internal, emotional environment. They don’t disregard things as irrelevant.

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Success

MAY 10, 2023

Lim also points to Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk: “He believes people are just pretending to work and abruptly ended Twitter’s work-from-anywhere policy via a late-night email and then did an about-face and closed Twitter’s Seattle and Singapore offices opting for a remote workforce.”

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Productivityist

JANUARY 7, 2016

As I write this, I’m sitting in a hotel room in Seattle preparing to head off for a week of travel. It doesn’t matter when travel takes place, it is disruptive. This disruption can wreak havoc on your productivity and can even carry over beyond your travel period if you don’t deal with it accordingly.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Travel Planning. Travel Planning. Travel Planning Example: Your travel planning system involves lots of different forms, templates, and checklists. Travel Planning Example: Your travel planning system involves lots of different forms, templates, and checklists. Her system for email management is outstanding.

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Go Burrows

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

She has an extensive background in strategic calendar management, planning international and domestic travel, event planning, onboarding of high-level executives among many other skills. The secret to her success is how she has created a work environment that is professional, approachable, friendly, and inclusive. LEAVE A REVIEW.

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Productivityist

JULY 3, 2023

Slow travel, whether walking or biking, offers a unique perspective. Mix up your work environment if you work from home. Set up an email vacation message before you go on holiday. Use tools that separate your work and personal email. Decouple your personal and work emails. Guilty pleasure apps are okay.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

We asked you a few questions regarding the environment you currently find yourself working in and what your offices might look like in the future. On average, how often does your Executive travel for business? Your answers certainly seem to reflect this trend with 70% of you saying your Executive travels at least once per month.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 12, 2016

You wouldn't believe how much I learn each time I give a minute-taking or travel webinar. Some things the more experienced admins could teach would be minute-taking, travel arrangements, meeting scheduling, event planning and organizing your boss. Do you want to get better at what you do? The audience will certainly know it if I don't.

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Recruit CRM

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

When drafting your job description, be sure to specify the nature of the working environment right in the very beginning. Include the typical working hours, especially if weekends or travel are required. This can include their email, a walkthrough of communication protocols, etc. Be specific but concise.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 13, 2019

On-site coaching is probably the most effective way to create change specific to an assistant’s situation because we are right here in your space seeing exactly what you deal with and how your day flows.

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Bonnie Low-Krayman

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The pandemic created a work environment that was unprecedented. Suddenly no longer forced to travel into an office, many staff had the chance to have dinner with their families for the first time in a long time. How did this happen? Children were able to have regular access to their parents.

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C-Suite Assistants

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For couples who travel frequently between homes and businesses and have busy lifestyles, this could mean coordinating professional and private schedules across different time zones and in different regions around the world. What Type of Assistant Should I Hire? There are practical financial considerations.

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Worxbee

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

There are several advantages for companies running virtual events, including that they get more reach and can include people who might otherwise not have been able to travel. Encourage participation, as this is a great way to keep the audience engaged, but you need to keep the environment a safe one for all attendees.

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Success

JULY 6, 2022

After I interviewed Britney Spears over email—a story that made the cover—I was done. Having outgrown pop culture and travel listicles, this had been my most challenging assignment. Here I was, all the major environment reporting awards in India under my belt, and possibly on the most coveted journalism fellowship worldwide.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

Read on to learn about how else an executive assistant can help you navigate through a changing, fast-paced startup environment. However, because a start up is such a rapidly changing and growing environment, it is important to hire someone with a growth mindset when it comes to acquiring new skills and being flexible.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2015

He was also an international traveler so I had to learn everything about time zones, flights and everything in between when your boss travels to a foreign country. And travel he did. In the last year I worked for him he was away from home travelling for at least 80 nights and for the most part it was international travel.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 11, 2012

As an assistant I often felt that keeping the office green was mainly my responsibility, so much so that during my time in one company I did email my colleagues a list of things that would help them to do their bit for the environment. Think before you print – do you need to print out your emails?

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 4, 2016

and the first thing I do is check my emails and the diary for the day. First thing I’ll make a cup of coffee, and print the diary for the day and address any urgent emails. I will then spend an hour working through emails and addressing anything that impacts the day or week ahead. I like to know what’s ahead of me!

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 28, 2015

Much has changed for the executive assistant and administrative professional, and in order to thrive in this new working environment, it’s up to both to operate wisely, using savvy to make the right decision regarding the right question at the right time. Competencies – Calendaring, travel, task organization, projects.

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Worxbee

MAY 3, 2021

Calendar management, email taming, and process design and management are our top three tasks, but executive assistants can do more. An EA might be kept very busy with calendars and emails for two executives, leaving little time for other tasks. EAs manage calendars, travel and “gate keeping” for executives.

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Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

Office managers may also draft documents, help with payroll, keep an organised office environment and communicate via phone, email and fax (yes, some companies are still using fax machines). Read more: Building your travel administration skills as an EA What does it take to be a successful HR assistant?

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Eco-Office Gals

JANUARY 14, 2014

Determine how socially responsible your current recruiting program is, including travel, paper use, printing use, interview tactics and so on. Reduce recruitment travel by using all means of online collaboration such as the ever-wonderful Skype, Google + hangouts, audio/video interviews of other types, online tests, emails and so on.

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Virtual Moxie

AUGUST 25, 2015

I actually prefer them to any other sort of travel. If you'd like to read it, email me and I'll send it out to you.) In that environment, sooner or later, you stop being able to look for those cool, new things. I love road trips--long or short. And I prefer taking road trips with Dominic over anyone else.

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C-Suite Assistants

DECEMBER 20, 2020

COVID-19 changed the business environment as much as any other aspect of everyday life. Honing Your Executive Assistant Skills In a Changing Business Environment. With more employees working from home, and less facetime with your executives, improving your executive assistant skills presents more challenges than ever.

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