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Why Small Businesses are Important in Today's Economy: Enhancing Growth with Executive Assistants' Support

ProAssisting Blog

Here are four compelling reasons why hiring an EA is a strategic investment for your small business: Increased Productivity with the Help of an Executive Assistant An executive assistant can significantly enhance productivity and streamline operations, freeing up valuable time for small business owners to focus on strategic growth.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

Success

The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. The stress-reducing power of assertiveness.

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Upping your A(ssisting) game when you work with a Board of Trustees

Executive Leadership Support Blog

Below are three suggestions to “up your game” when working with the board. These are just a few items from our Bylaws that have come up in meetings that I was able to give the answer to so we could continue working. As a bonus this will also alleviate emails and phone calls to you asking when something is due. Know EVERYTHING!

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Email Triage: What it is and how it can help you

ProAssisting Blog

Now I’ll detail how I use email triage with the hope that you see a use for this technique in your dealings with both work and personal emails to “maximize email success in the shortest time period&#. Then I quickly scan through for any emails from my boss as action items for the upcoming week.

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Research: Twitter Reveals Workplace Stress

On The Job

Chances are, your stress level has gone up simply because it's Monday. A new study by Dr. Wei Wang at the University of Central Florida finds that tweets mentioning work stress were highest on Mondays, and start to slowly decline throughout the week. Researchers say there is a "Friday dip" for work stress and negative emotion.

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Amidst an Unyielding Labor Market, Remote Work Opportunities Surface as an Attraction for Frontline Workers

Allwork

The benefits of remote work in reducing burnout and stress make it an essential offer for healthcare frontline staff, who can get a lot of their paperwork done at home. This leads to enhanced job contentment and a decrease in stress levels, resulting in a boost in staff retention and better hiring results. One study of U.S.

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Hustle Culture Is Over. Slow Productivity Is the Way to Meaningful Work

Success

In many cases, speeding up your tempo of work makes you worse at your job,” Newport says. And while we think it’s our bosses or deadlines, or even our bottom line driving the stress to produce, he tells readers it’s someone else pressuring us—ourselves. Being busy has very little to do with producing good results.