Business continuity planning is one of those pieces of work Assistants often end up organizing without ever appearing in the finished document. You book the room for the annual exercise, you keep the emergency contact list current, you chase the actions afterwards, and you are the one who knows where
Prioritization frameworks for EAs sound like something from a management course you were sent on once and never thought about again. But bear with me. Frameworks are such a great way to organize your work. Let’s take a typical day for an EA. Your Executive wants the board pack pulled
Organizing your physical workspace is one of those jobs that never makes it onto the to-do list, because there is always something more urgent going on. But it’s not say that it isn’t important to consider – especialyl for EAs. So I want you to think about the actual state
Audit your week honestly, and you will probably find that a fair amount of it was never really yours to begin with. Most of us reach Friday with no real sense of where the time went. You were busy from the moment you sat down, answering everything, moving the meetings
Templates for EAs have saved me more time throughout my career than almost any other tool. When I was supporting Executives, I quickly realised that many of the tasks we manage happen again and again. That is why having a collection of templates for EAs can make such a difference.
AI workslop is already part of how we work as EAs, even if we haven’t been calling it that yet. It’s worth defining it properly from the start, because once you see it, you notice it everywhere. AI Workslop is low-effort AI-generated content that looks polished and complete, but hasn’t
Executive Assistants spend a lot of time looking for tools that genuinely help with the day‑to‑day work of supporting an Executive. While researching this article on ten AI tools EAs may not know about yet, I kept thinking about how often we test new apps, hoping they will make the
As EAs, when we think about how to create SOPs, we often forget how much operational knowledge we already carry in our heads.We know how our Executive likes their inbox handled, which meetings need prep and which ones do not, who actually needs to be copied on an email, how
Task crafting for EAs is one of those topics that sounds like something out of a management textbook, but it’s actually something we do all the time, often without realizing it. As Executive Assistants, we’re constantly adjusting, improving, and reshaping the work we do to make it fit better. We
You’ve probably come across the Eisenhower Matrix before. Maybe you’ve even sketched it out in a notebook during a particularly hectic day. It’s that useful grid that helps us figure out what’s urgent, what’s important, and what can (thankfully) wait. At The EA Campus, we reference it a lot when
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