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Business Continuity Planning for Executive Assistants
Business continuity planning is one of those pieces of work Assistants often end up organizing without ever appearing in the finished document. You book the room for the annual exercise, you keep the...
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Managing Executive Capacity
Managing Executive capacity is one of those aspects of the job that never makes it into an EA job description, but it takes up most of your day. Let me give you an example: a person has asked for a...
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How to Audit Your Week for Maximum Impact
Audit your week honestly, and you will probably find that a fair amount of it was never really yours to begin with. Most of us reach Friday with no real sense of where the time went. You were busy...
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Spotting Problems Before Your Executive Does
Spotting problems before your Executive does is one of the most valuable and often the least noticed things an Assistant can do. Every one of us knows the sinking feeling when we don’t spot a problem....
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What Does Effective in the EA Role Look Like?
Being effective in the EA role has very little to do with how busy you look. Most of us know an Assistant who seems to have it all under control. The inbox is at zero by lunchtime, and the calendar is...
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10 Templates for EAs That Save Time
Templates for EAs have saved me more time throughout my career than almost any other tool. When I was supporting Executives, I quickly realised that many of the tasks we manage happen again and again....
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What Does Workflow Actually Mean for Executive Assistants?
Workflow for Executive Assistants is one of those phrases that appears everywhere now, especially in conversations about AI, productivity, operations, systems, project management, and how businesses...
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Building Your EA Operating Manual
An EA operating manual is one of those things many of us mean to create, talk about creating, or have half started in a notebook, OneNote page, Google Doc, or random folder somewhere on our desktop....
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What the Next Generation of Executives Expect from Their EAs
If you’ve been in the EA role for a while, you might be starting to see that the way executives work is changing, and that is shaping what the next generation of Executives expect from their...
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Why Filtering AI Workslop Is Becoming a Core EA Skill
AI workslop is already part of how we work as EAs, even if we haven’t been calling it that yet. It’s worth defining it properly from the start, because once you see it, you notice it everywhere. AI...
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The EA’s Guide to Process Mapping
If you have ever tried to explain to someone how something works in your team and found yourself saying, “well first this person does this, then it goes to finance, then legal reviews it, then it...
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How to Run an Effective Executive Briefing
An effective executive briefing is one of the clearest signs that you are operating as a strategic EA rather than simply keeping things moving. As EAs, we sit close enough to the detail to understand...
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How to Create SOPs That Actually Save You Time
As EAs, when we think about how to create SOPs, we often forget how much operational knowledge we already carry in our heads.We know how our Executive likes their inbox handled, which meetings need...
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The EA’s Guide to Onboarding New Staff
The way we approach onboarding new staff has changed dramatically. In 2025, onboarding new staff is about more than paperwork and welcome emails. Hybrid work, AI tools, and new employee expectations...
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Task Crafting for EAs
Task crafting for EAs is one of those topics that sounds like something out of a management textbook, but it’s actually something we do all the time, often without realizing it. As Executive...
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The Complete Guide to Planning Business Travel
Planning business travel in 2025 is a whole different ball game than it was just a few years ago. We’re not just booking flights and hotels. We’re managing a full experience. One that supports our...
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How EAs Can Help Their Executives Build a Personal Brand on Social Media
We’re hearing it more and more – leaders need to build their personal brand, both inside their organizations and out in the wider world. At the same time, people are craving more transparency and...
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Managing an Office Move: A Guide for Assistants
Office relocations can be daunting, especially when managing multiple moves, tight deadlines, and high expectations from your Executive and colleagues. To navigate the complexities of relocating...
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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...
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Effective email management for strategic Assistants Most people know that effective management of their inbox is one of the most important things they can do to improve their productivity. A...
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