Tips & Techniques
How Assistants Can Manage Their Manager’s Needs & Priorities Using The 3P’s
Clarifying expectations and clear communication are two of the essential building blocks of building a strong partnership between a manager and their Executive Assistant. In the latest episode of the Assist With Impact podcast (Episode 170), I discuss the challenge of assistants needing to manage the needs and priorities of multiple managers. It can be…
Read MoreHow Teenagers Can Teach Assistants Strategies For Dealing With A Micromanager
If you follow me on Instagram you will know our family are new puppy parents. Pepper is a rambunctious Cavoodle (Poodle crossed with a Cavalier King Charles). She is happily tearing a swathe (literally and figuratively) through our home and our hearts. Now that she is fully vaccinated we are starting to take her out into…
Read MoreIf It's Good Enough For Leonardo
In 1994, Bill Gates shelled out USD$30 Million for 18 sheets of a notebook written by Leonardo Da Vinci. Called the Codex Leicester it contains sketches and notes by the great Renaissance man himself. When asked what drew him to possess the notebook, Gates remarked “It’s an inspiration that one person—off on their own, with…
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