Resources for Assistants

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Executive Assistant SMART Goal Examples

How assistants can set SMART goals and achieve more in the workplace

How to Grow Your Career as an Executive Assistant
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How to Grow Your Career as an Executive Assistant

Three career EAs share their stepping stones to success

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Assistants: How to Set Goals That Impact the Business

Take an active role in the goal setting process with this guide

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OKRs 101: The Basics of Goal Setting for Executive Assistants

Learn all about OKRs and how you can make a significant contribution

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Professional Development for Executive Assistants: Goals, Tools, & Best Practices

Invest in your growth by making a professional development plan

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How to Set Executive Assistant Goals With Your Executive

Achieve optimal success by creating goals with your Executive

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Why is Goal Setting for Executive Assistants Important?

Create a well-thought-out plan to clear a path to unlimited success

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Defining Executive Assistant OKRs

Pinpoint and prioritize your goals to propel your career forward

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Assistant-Executive Goal-Alignment Workshop

OKR consultant Tim Whitmire walks through how you can align yourself with your executive - and company’s - goals, specifically as it relates to OKRs (Objective's and Key Results.)

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Goal Setting for Assistants Hub: Get Started Today

Here are resources to help you define goals in your role, and how to execute and measure your success, starting with a 5-Step Goal Setting Method.

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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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