Resources for Assistants

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How Executive Assistants Can Carve Out a Long-Term Career Path

Strategies for taking charge of your career and making it your own

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3 Tips for Strategic Executive Assistant One-on-Ones

Strategies for leading thoughtful 1:1 meetings with your Executive

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Working in a High-Growth Environment with Salesforce’s Amy Sherman

Featuring Amy Sherman, EA to the President and COO at Salesforce

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Channeling Your Inner Leader with LinkedIn’s Lindsay Robinson

Find out what it means to be.a leader from Lindsay Robinson, EA at LinkedIn

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Executive Assistant Career Growth

Use a development plan to grow your personal and professional brand, and your career

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Advice on Networking and Strengthening the Executive Assistant and Executive Relationship

Discover the benefits of relationship building for long-term success

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You’re Worth It! Convincing Your Executive to Invest in You

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.

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6 Free Tools to Boost Your Design Skills

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

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EAs and Executives: Exercises to establish a productive working relationship

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.

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How Learning to Listen Can Make You a Better EA

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.

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INFOGRAPHIC: 5-Step Planning Method for Goal-Setting With Executives

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 […]

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