The Executive Assistant’s Guide to Strategic Delegation
Learn how to identify tasks, communicate clearly, and maintain accountability when delegating. Transform your role from a doer to a leader and maximize your impact.
How Executive Assistants Can Automate Meeting Scheduling (and Save Their Sanity)
Meetings are the heartbeat of many businesses – essential for collaboration, decision-making, and closing deals. But if you’re an executive assistant, you know the dark side: scheduling those meetings can be a full-time job. Between juggling your executive’s packed calendar, coordinating with multiple attendees, and avoiding the dreaded double-booking, it’s a never-ending puzzle. Add your own schedule into the mix, and it’s a [...]
Ep 338: Tactics for Managing Your Executive’s Email Inbox
In this episode, you'll hear an AI-generated conversation based on my blog post all about tactics for managing your executive's email inbox. I hope you enjoy listening to some fascinating AI technology in action, and of course, it's nice to get a break from my voice every once in a while. :-) NOTE: The title image above was also created by AI (ChatGPT to [...]
Ep 337: What’s Next? A Pivot to Quality and Creativity
NOTE: This title image was created by ChatGPT. Yes, it's a bit over the top... In this episode, you'll hear an AI-generated conversation based on an issue of my Academy Newsletter where I discuss some recent pivots I've made in my business, as well as a sneak peek at upcoming projects. To read the full issue, and other issues of the Academy [...]
Ep 329: Mike Todasco on Leveraging AI as an Executive Assistant
Mike Todasco is a former Senior Director of Innovation at PayPal and current Visiting Fellow at San Diego State University. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Mike talks about the AI landscape, and how executive assistants can leverage AI to enhance their role, boost efficiency, and future-proof their careers. LEADERSHIP QUOTE Leadership is taking people to a place they would not have [...]
Ep 211: Jessica McBride on ChatGPT, Emotional Intelligence, Finding Your Voice, and Vulnerability
Jessica McBride has over 10 years of experience in supporting executives. Her passion lies in communication and how it can shape a company from the top down. In this conversation, Jessica talks about emotional intelligence, using technology like chatGPT at work, finding (and using) your voice, and being vulnerable in the workplace. LEADERSHIP QUOTE If you’re not in the arena with the rest of [...]
Ep 193: Emily Morgan and Eileen Coombes from Delegate Solutions
Emily Morgan and Eileen Coombes help teams create the freedom to do more and make most of their time and energy. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Emily and Eileen share their career journeys from assistants to executive and founder roles at Delegate Solutions. They also talk about communication tips for working remotely and more! LEADERSHIP QUOTE What we know matters, but [...]
Ep #65: Shelley Trask – Senior EA to CTO at Slack
Shelley Trask is the Senior Executive Assistant to Cal Henderson, CTO at Slack in San Francisco. The Slack team does not use email. I love email. Shelley loves Slack. I am not a big fan of how easy it is for people to get ahold of me via Slack. This should be fun... Shelley talks about what she loves about the EA role, productivity [...]
Ep #60: Vickie Sokol Evans – Founder of RedCape
Vickie Sokol Evans is a globally recognized digital productivity instructor and comedic speaker who trains the world's smartest people how to use their technology to get better results in less time. Vickie has experience as an assistant so she understands our role more than most digital productivity instructors. She's passionate about helping assistants automate processes and increase efficiency. In this episode, she shares some [...]
Email Management Tactics for Leader Assistants
Despite the technological advances of spam and junk filters, dozens of pointless emails still reach your executive’s inbox every day. Your company doesn’t want to pay your executive to sift through junk emails. Additionally, even after you and the spam filters declutter your executive’s inbox, the remaining emails don’t necessarily need your executive’s attention. Source: Gratisography.com There are some emails you can [...]