Do you constantly struggle to complete everything during the workday? Are you forced to put in overtime to complete crucial tasks? If so, you’re not alone—plenty of executives and managers need to improve their time- and priority-management skills.
Everyone needs a little help, whether it’s assistance with keeping your own projects on track or training one of your team members who struggles with organization. Aside from the oft-used Excel, highly recommended professional tools include OneNote, Trello, Asana and ClickUp, platforms you may be familiar with. Here are some additional tools that may be worth a look.
The probability of success is greatest when admins are involved at the project’s onset and can exert influence over how the process will proceed and be tracked.
Improving time management in your unique setting may require intense soul-searching about what is going wrong. Here are nine steps to systematizing your assessment and making corrections.
Think managing and protecting your HR and business records is easy? Think again. Ideally, you already have a records-management policy in place. An up-to-date records policy is vital if your company has moved to remote or hybrid work and not made updates. Here are 10 points to keep in mind when drafting remote-records policies.
Planning the executive conference, leading the C-suite tech upgrade or managing the new office move—all are examples of managing projects. And many of the skills you’ve mastered as an admin are essential to successful project delivery.
One of the hallmarks of an accomplished administrative professional is discretion and the ability to manage the handling of confidential information. In the digital information world, this goes beyond the character traits of the individual to the ability to utilize digital tools wisely.
No matter what type of organization you work for, it will have sensitive information that needs to stay confidential. To make your life easier, we’ve prepared five ways to preserve confidentiality at your office.
To make the transition as seamless as possible, here are some tips for bringing employees back to the office.
As an administrative or executive assistant, is one of your assignments helping your company’s legal department or executive offices index and track various contracts? A relatively new contract intelligence platform called Evisort is helping legal, procurement and sales departments to reduce manual work in the creation and lifecycle of contracts.