1-Minute Strategies: October ’24
Helping prepare and deliver weekly update emails … 10 ways to spend rare instances of downtime
Category: Productivity
ClickUp: The ultimate productivity tool for EAs
Do you miss deadlines more than you meet them? Is it challenging for you to remember all the little details surrounding each assignment? Are your important files getting lost in the depths of your computer? Enter ClickUp, a versatile project management and collaboration platform that’s revolutionizing the way EAs organize tasks, manage projects and communicate with their teams.
Tech Help—Customizing Gmail
Uncluttering the Gmail main screen and using Categories, Flags and Stars.
3 strategies for fixing file overload
If you’re like most computer users, you have filled up a hard drive, network folder or cloud storage. Even if you haven’t filled it to capacity, the clutter of too many files may be keeping you from being as productive as you want to be. Here are a few techniques and strategies to declutter your automated files (and keep them uncluttered).
Proactively anticipate and address challenges
Your ability to foresee and address potential issues is invaluable as an executive assistant. Proactive problem-solving not only streamlines operations but also solidifies your role as an indispensable asset to your executive and organization. Here’s how you can cultivate this crucial skill.
1-Minute Strategies: August ’24
Writing effective emails and voice memo to-do lists.
Task-tracking best practices
The number of ways you can track your tasks and to-do items seems to keep expanding. Before implementing or changing how you choose to do it, consider these issues.
How to prepare for employee absences this vacation season
As summer approaches, managers often face a surge of vacation requests from their team members. Efficiently managing these requests is crucial to maintaining operational continuity and avoiding potential disruptions. By implementing strategic planning and leveraging the appropriate tools, learn how to ensure seamless operations during peak vacation periods.
Project-management tech for 2024
The tech-savvy administrative professional knows that “doing your best” may mean changing the way you do your job. Keeping up with what tools are new and cool can seem like a full-time job by itself. Here are a few things to consider in the area of managing multiple projects.
8 ways to organize contacts with ease
Networking and maintaining connections are vital to the success of many businesses, but master contact lists can be daunting to create and stressful to manage. Thankfully, nowadays there are far more options to develop, customize and organize a list than relying on handwritten files in a physical cabinet. Here are some digital tools and software that can be incredibly useful.