Resources for Assistants

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Curated from our community of over 6,000+ assistants, discover resources to learn, grow, and advance your career.

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How Base Helped the Lead EA at Terminus Streamline Efficiency and Communication

A case study featuring Nikki Morales, Lead Executive Assistant at Terminus

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Effective Communication as an Executive Assistant

Techniques to help you build and strengthen positive working relationships

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TEMPLATE: Travel Itineraries

We've created FREE Travel Itinerary Templates for Base, Google Sheets, and Google Docs!

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Creating Effective Travel Itineraries

As an EA, managing your executive’s travel is likely an important part of your job. We’ve put together some tips to help you create itineraries like a rockstar.

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5 Tips For Creating Effective Meeting Agendas

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.

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5 Tips For Planning Great Meetings

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.

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Using Base to Create Effective Email Digests

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

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EBOOK: Hands-on Guide to Creating & Executing Effective SOPs

Free tips for creating effective SOPs for your organization (that people will actually follow!)

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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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6 Note-Taking Methods and the Apps That Make Them Easy

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

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Creating SOPs: You’ve made your SOP, here’s how to effectively execute

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 […]

Podcasts

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Tune into our biweekly podcast, Courageous Help, to hear more about how EAs are changing the world left and right.

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Virtual Events

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Don’t be shy - we have plenty of opportunities for EAs to get involved. Take a look at our calendar full of our upcoming events.

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