Distractions bombard the average person in the workplace every day. At times, the very tools that we use to help us connect with our teams can become a distraction. While it is not possible to eliminate all distractions, there are steps that can be taken to deal with them and reclaim your day.

It can be fatiguing to make the right choices when there are multiple options and priorities. How can you keep your head (and keep breathing) in the middle of all the demands coming your way? Here’s one way.

Managing up means being proactive, consultative, strategic, and confident. It’s the skill that will take your role and support to the next level. Here is a high-level look at the most important components of managing up.

Whether you work in a bustling open-plan office or from your living room, having the right headset can make or break your working experience. The options out there are endless—we’ve narrowed down a few options for you. Depending on your needs and space, one of these may be great for you!

If you have direct access to your executive’s inbox, teeing up email drafts for them is a game changer.

As an executive assistant, part of your job is to work out the details so that your executive can focus on the bigger picture. An essential part of this is meeting preparation, including creating effective meeting agendas.

Enable the “Send & Archive” button in Gmail to save yourself extra clicks and the time it takes to re-read emails you have already handled.

How can EAs help make meetings be a better use of everyone’s time? Here are 5 tips to help set up your team for great meetings.

Letterboards can bring a bit of fun and wit into the workday!

Writing respond-able emails is an art. It’s not just the subject line or the email content; it’s when the email is received, and how you follow-up on the email. Lucky for us, there are several tools out there to help manage these processes and help you get more responses.

Save yourself some time later (and make a great impression on your executive) with recurring reminders!

As an EA, you have to be comfortable in a service role; but we all know you also need to be confident and take charge of any situation to get the job done.

Here are some best practices that will help you create clear and useful subject lines for calendar invitations.

Scheduling your emails helps ensure you can work when it’s best for you, rather than when it’s best for the recipient.

Taking notes with pen and paper isn’t a dead skill— and it shouldn’t be! Ditch your laptop in your next meeting and see if these benefits prove true for you.

Creating effective email digests is a piece of cake with Base! We’re sharing a quick walk through of Base’s digest builder.

There’s no shortage of tools to make scheduling appointments more efficient. It’s worth setting aside some time to try a few out and find one that works best for you and your exec’s calendar!

Your ideal week is out there. Here’s how to get it!

We’ve all received a poorly written email, full of spelling and grammar mistakes that make us question the abilities of the writer. How can you make sure your emails are […]

These 6 tools will level up your design skills, help you create great graphics, and (bonus!) they’re FREE!

Sending a thank you email is easy and quick—but sometimes, only a handwritten thank you note will do. If sending physical greeting cards is something you do often, using a […]

We’re big fans of Jeremy Burrows and all he does to uplift the EA community, so we were thrilled to be guests on his podcast, The Leader Assistant, this week!

Handling sensitive information with professionalism will impress your executive and allow them to depend on you to help protect and grow their business.

Here are 4 tools for conference calls that are consistently reliable, work across a variety of different platforms, are easy to use, and will help the teams you support stay productive.

Slack has a ton of shortcuts that will help you speed through your work and have a little fun while doing it. Here are a few of our favorite Slack tips!

Here are seven unique gift ideas for executives. Gone are the days of generic gift cards and bottles of wine. Make a statement with these gifts!

Managing travel is a skill, whether it be for yourself or for your executive. Having the know-how to find the best flights, best hotels, best restaurants, best travel perks isn’t […]

Email digests are what you send to your executive on a set cadence that gives them a high-level, easy-to-consume view of their workload.

The best way to improve communication in an executive/EA relationship is to ask good questions. Here are some each can ask one another.

You wrote the perfect email—the right mix of informational and to the point, but you still didn’t get a response. Try these email subject lines.

Our team is extremely passionate about connecting the community of executive support professionals and building a foundation for positive change in the industry, which is why we’re thrilled to share features of rockstar administrative professionals!

Who’s been there—the dreaded inbox with 1000s of emails? Don’t be afraid; we have email tips to help you cruise through the clean up and keep it that way!

If you are about to start a new relationship with an exec (or if you have an existing one you want to improve), use these tips to hit the ground running with productivity.

Executive Assistants, if you want to be killer at your job, your relationships, and at life in general, the skill to hone-in on is listening. “Hearing the unsaid needs” in meetings, conversations, will amp-up your career development and help avoid stalled productivity.

Download our free scorecard of every task management platform we tested to see which tool is best for you and your day-to-day needs.

Here are 6 note-taking methods for every type of situation, from planning marketing events to taking meeting notes.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be here instead of in your inbox? You get into work, you have a plan to attack your day, you open your inbox, and the next […]

Less time organizing, more time doing. How much time of your day do you spend working online? How much of that time is spent bouncing between sites, emails, calendars, and notes? […]

Rockstar executive-assistant Chelsey Lewis recently published a series of articles on goal setting: “Go Get ’Em: Goal Setting for the Executive Assistant” and “Executive Assistants: Why You Should Be Setting […]

Your how-to guide for activating your SOP (standard operating procedure). You’ve put in the time to understand a process, you found ways to make it more efficient, and you’ve documented […]

SOPs are a lantern on a dark night, a clearing in the fog, a bridge across a river, a map in unknown territory. You get it, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) […]

Executive Assistants, do you set business goals with your executive? Should you? Absolutely! You are an extension of your executive, her right hand. Her goals are your goals. Understanding where you are […]

You spend your day helping your executive reach her goals; you take the time to understand her priorities and how they tie back to the ultimate vision, and you make […]