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    Managing Work Life Balance Executive Assistant
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    How to Manage Work-Life Balance as an Executive Assistant

    As an Executive Assistant (EA) in today’s workplace, you likely own a long list of responsibilities and wear multiple hats—which, at times, can feel like you’re doing ten jobs at once. This is great when it comes to learning new skills and ...

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    Two female executive assistants building a meeting agenda on a board
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    How to Build an Effective Meeting Agenda

    An effective, successful meeting boils down to purpose. It’s easy for attendees to feel frustrated and overworked if they regularly attend s...
    An Executive Assistant discussing how to be more strategic with a colleague
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    How to Become More Strategic When Planning Meetings

    Not enough Executive Assistants (EAs) connect their day-to-day responsibilities with their company’s wider strategy or goals, but this is of...
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    Hidden Costs to Consider When Planning In-Person Meetings

    There are many hidden costs to organizing in-person meetings—and we’re not just talking about financial costs. As an Executive Assistant (EA...
    ChatGPT Prompts to Help Executive Assistants With Meeting Planning
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    7 ChatGPT Prompts to Help Executive Assistants With Meeting Planning

    As an Executive Assistant (EA) or meeting planner, you often have to juggle multiple stakeholders, requests, tools, and responsibilities—so ...
    An airplane about to land with the numbers 2025 written across the tarmac
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    4 Expert Small Meeting Predictions for 2025

    Business meeting trends are evolving in 2025, and the role of simple and small in-person meetings continues to grow in significance within o...
    An Executive Assistant writing a meeting agenda on her laptop
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    How to Define Your Meeting Objectives

    Defining an overarching objective, or goal, of a meeting is arguably the most important step of meeting planning. Objectives not only help u...