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Executive Assistant Calendar Management: Click-to-Call Numbers (mobile only)
As an executive assistant, it’s important to make working from a mobile device as easy as possible for the executive you support. One way to simplify scheduled phone calls is to use “click-to-call” numbers in Google Calendar holds.
The Small Details: Email to Slack Integration
Gmail and Outlook users can take collaboration one step further by integrating their email with Slack.
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.
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.
EA Toolbox: Get More Email Responses With These Tools
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.
The Extra Mile: Recurring Reminders
Save yourself some time later (and make a great impression on your executive) with recurring reminders!
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!
For Your Eyes Only: Confidentiality Tips for Executive Assistants
Handling sensitive information with professionalism will impress your executive and allow them to depend on you to help protect and grow their business.
4 Great Tools That Make Setting Up Conference Calls a Breeze
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.
These Slack Tips Put Productivity Back into Your Day (Plus, They’re Fun)
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!
7 Apps That Make Managing Executive Travel Easy
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 […]
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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