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From Executive Assistant to Entrepreneur

Guest Post by Marlene Hernandez

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From Executive Assistant to Entrepreneur: Ensuring a Positive Exit from Your Current Employer

As we near the end of 2024, many of you may have well-earned and ambitious goals in place for your life and career in 2025. Now’s the time to consider how you will part ways with your current employer. Exiting your position with professionalism is key to fostering long-term success, especially as you transition into starting your own business. Employ strategic planning to ensure that you leave on favorable terms, which will help you maintain the valuable professional relationships you’ve cultivated. This approach not only smooths your current transition but also solidifies a network that can propel your future business endeavors. Today’s guest blogger on The Evolving EA is Marlene Hernandez. Marlene recommends several strategies that will help you create a solid foundation from which your new venture can thrive.

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Apps That Customize Success

A guest post by Elijah Dawson

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Your Business, Your Way: Apps That Customize Success

In today’s fast-paced world, small businesses face the challenge of maximizing both time and effort. The technological era offers myriad solutions through applications designed to streamline your business operations. Embracing these tools can be a game-changer and catapult your efficiency to new heights. 

Tasks that once consumed hours can be completed in minutes with the right apps. These applications enhance productivity and open new avenues for growth and innovation. Today, Elijah Dawson shares his research with The Evolving EA and explores how these apps can transform your small business landscape, turning every challenge into a stepping stone for success.

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How and When to Leverage Recognition

How do I toot my own horn with my manager and ask for a raise?

Let me know if you found this video helpful. And if you have any questions, please email me at teri@tericase.com and I will respond in a video*.

Have a great week.

Teri

*you will remain anonymous

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Invest In Yourself

It’s all about you

Today’s message is short and sweet. Short because this will be brief. Sweet because it’s all about YOU–it has nothing to do with being an executive assistant.

I’ve never met an executive assistant who didn’t have a goal, a dream, or a creative passion outside of the office, but she/he often felt too drained, overwhelmed, or unable to find the time to pursue this personal goal whether it was going to school, writing a book (mine), making a quilt, starting a non-profit, glass blowing…so many great intentions, ideas, and projects! So little time to execute!

So today, I want to share this post by Dan Blank, We Grow Media: Invest in Whitespace.

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A SIMPLE WAY TO KEEP TRACK OF RECOGNITION FOR A JOB WELL DONE

Toot Your Horn

Your corporate goals are hopefully on track and earnings will be one of the measurements. Working closely with your manager, you’re probably clear where he or she stands on the department’s goals. But if you had to sit down with your manager today, would you be able to say how you’re performing? How often do you tell your manager about a compliment you’ve received for a job well done? Perhaps when you’re asked, you freeze up and can’t think of one off the top of your head.

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Managing Your Manager & Staying Organized

“Manage my business”

I recently met with an executive and asked him a simple question, “What makes an exceptional executive assistant?”

He said, “She or he knows how to manage my business.”

By business, he meant HIS business not the company’s–his priorities, his responsibilities, his everything from emails to calendar to meeting goals and expectations.

The next day I was speaking with an executive assistant I used to work with who I consider an exceptional assistant. She was preparing to interview for a role with an C-Level executive who has a reputation for being difficult due to his communication skills and lack of organization. My colleague and I discussed how she might best support someone like this manager and it evolved into this post because whether you are trying to be a more proficient assistant with a current manager or going to work with a new manager, there are two areas of focus that will improve your mutual success.

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One Way To Increase Your Manager’s Productivity

Ready! Set!  8 – 12 – 4 — FLEX!

Have you ever noticed how many meetings are scheduled to prepare for other meetings?

How many times have you heard your manager or a co-worker say, “I have so much to do, but I’m going to be in meetings all day.”

Unnecessary meetings and a lack of time to focus on goals and responsibilities is one of the number one reasons milestones are missed. Short of declining the meetings and looking like you, or your manger, isn’t a team player, how does one address this problem?

With calendar management.

After years of experience supporting an executive, I began blocking his/her and my calendar as follows:

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SMART Goals (Performance Objectives) For Assistants

Why Assistants Should Want Them

Performance objectives are important for three reasons. One, they establish clear performance expectations between the assistant and supervising manager. Secondly, they are used to determine year-end bonuses and merit increases. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, performance objectives allow each assistant to identify areas for training, or exposure opportunities in areas he/she is interested in. Bottom line, establishing performance objectives helps YOU establish YOUR career path. Maybe the career path is to be the best executive assistant in the world, or maybe you want to move into a different department, or maybe you want to move into meeting planning–whatever your ideal career path is, performance goals can be a roadmap that you build upon year after year to help you reach your longterm career goals. And they can document you making a difference and adding value.

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