The Executive Assistant’s Tool Box is officially launched!
Our Mission Statement: To provide a central source for Executive and Administrative Assistants to find LOTS OF resources on a WIDE VARIETY of topics that will help ensure their success.
The idea for this blog was hatched when I, a humble Executive Assistant, found myself slogging through the wild internet wastelands in search of help. The question: How to effectively organize the management of my boss’s monthly expense reports. The process in place was a frustrating, disorganized mess that caused both him and me to dread the topic. Thus, we found ourselves three months behind and I was charged with finding a new way to tackle the problem and prevent it from happening again. My strategy: I Googled it. And, outside of learning that there is an incredible amount of really useless looking accounting software out there, I gained no insight on how to manage the process. So this got me thinking: Executive Assistants face a lot of unique situations exactly like this. And somewhere out there, an Executive Assistant has a very simple and effective strategy for handling her boss’ expense reports. PRESTO! The EA Tool Box was born as a way to build a community for assistants of all kinds – Executive, Administrative, Personal and Everything In Between – to gather together their best and brightest ideas for managing the complicated and eclectic duites we are tasked with.
So I encourage everyone to share their strategies and resources. Don’t hold back! We have a lot to learn from each other. If you’re like me (and I’m guessing that, if you’re reading this, you are) you realize that your job as an Assistant is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to the success of your “boss” – whatever that is – a company or a person. The desire to do well will come through in your actions. And whatever you want to do with your career – if you want to be the boss’ assistant until the day he or she retires, or if you want to someday BE the boss – the strategies for success are the same: SEEK out opportunities. TRY new strategies. SHARE winning strategies. And always keep LEARNING.
I hope you enjoy this blog, participate, and pass it along.
August 2, 2007 at 7:33 am |
Hi there…
Just wanted to wish you good luck with your site, I’ll be checking back. There are no good sites for assistants, so I’m hoping you’ll be able to prove me wrong :0)
Trish
August 2, 2007 at 7:44 am |
Hi,
Great idea for a blog, enjoying the posts already. Best of luck!
August 2, 2007 at 8:38 am |
I wish you best of luck on your blog.
August 2, 2007 at 5:05 pm |
Good stuff! Best of luck!
August 2, 2007 at 10:14 pm |
Hey, great idea for a blog! Love the e-mail post and will be looking for more. Keep it up!
August 3, 2007 at 4:43 pm |
This is perfect! My sister is an EA working for the president of a high-end house wares manufacturer and she just doesn’t have the finesse and polish I think she should at her level: I know because I used to work there, too, in another field. Don’t get me wrong, I have great admiration for the magic she works!
I am going to send her your link and I know she will benefit from your tips! Coming from a neutral 3rd-party should take (some of) the sting out of it; she could even come to recognize hers is a highly skilled segment of the workforce, filled by people who do more than “fetch a cup of joe” or take dictation. They are professionals, and nobody does it alone!
Kudos and best wishes for a successful venture in your support of superior admin efforts everywhere!
August 3, 2007 at 8:33 pm |
Good luck to you
I recall when I was younger, Dear Abby and her sister periodically had articles in their column having to do with office etiquette and general stationery etiquette, too. Your blog reminds me very much of this, and it seems like you might have a niche to fill.
May you become the Ann Landers/ Dear Abby for the Administrative World in the computer age.
August 4, 2007 at 2:45 am |
What a wonderful idea! Im In! Southern Mississippi EA to both a CEO and VP (the VP would not give me up with the CEO tried to swipe me, so I do both now. 7 years experience, legal and home building. As my younger boss says I do everything except for screwing his girlfriends, but I have given him a few pointers. I guess that’s a great compliment! Look forward have read tons of books on this subject ladies, and gents, so lets really make a shot at this!