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How to Do What You Love
“Do what you love…” comes from a good place, it isn’t really true. Here is how to actually find happiness in your work!
5 Steps Toward More Effective Meetings
Our Executive Assistants have planned and executed thousands of effective meetings, both for the executives they support and within our own team.
With our vast experience, we’ve gathered our best advice to help you plan more effective meetings too!
7 Great Digital Tools Every Executive Assistant Should Use
A World-class Executive Assistant has many different jobs rolled into one. Here are our favorite digital tools that help us save time while we're doing it all!
Our 10 Favorite Apps as a Totally Remote Organization
A handy guide to our top 10 favorite apps and programs as a totally remote business. Take a look and think about how you can use these tools to support your business too!
How to Organize a Remote Holiday Celebration
As an entirely remote organization, we thought it would be fantastic to share our remote expertise to help you celebrate the holidays with your family and friends in spite of the COVID pandemic.
10 Fast Ways to Improve Your Concentration
In today’s digital world, distractions are all too commonplace.
Whether it’s the constant dinging of incoming email, client phone calls, or putting out some fires on social media — it can be hard to sit down and get meaningful work finished without breaking your concentration.
How Your Executive Assistant Can Help You Reach Your Goals
When you have a collaborative partnership with your virtual assistant, you have an ally who is invested in helping you set goals that will maximize your output and increase your sense of accomplishment.
Partner Spotlight: Crafted Leadership
33Vincent partner, Crafted Leadership, believes that the quality of our leaders affects the quality of our lives. Through training and coaching, they support leaders to maximize their areas of brilliance and develop vital leadership skills. Here at 33Vincent, we help high-performing leaders enhance their impact by matching them with virtual Executive Assistants.
Scheduling Your Week to Maximize Your Focus
Imagine what you could achieve if your weeks were arranged around your highest priorities–and not around other people’s priorities. What could you accomplish if your weeks were structured to prioritize your organization’s mission-critical work?
Partner Spotlight: Base
33Vincent partner, Base, shares our vision of helping leaders enhance their impact. With this vision in mind, Base built the only tool for assistants—arming them with customized support so leaders can pull up their daily and weekly action items, files, meetings, last minute updates, and more in minutes.
Stop Wasting Your Time on Email
From our experience in working with clients in various industries, sectors and roles, outsourcing their email inbox to an executive assistant, even just partially, adds valuable hours back into their day so they can spend more time focusing on their most important work.
Do You Need a Chief of Staff, an Executive Assistant, or Both?
We often speak with leaders who see value in engaging these two roles in tandem, but don’t have enough demand to bring in a full-time person for each role. This begs the question: what is the best solution when you need a bit of an EA and a bit of a CoS?
Using Your Executive Assistant To Engage Your Fully Remote Team
How to leverage your Executive Assistant to build out a team engagement system that leaves your virtual collaborators inspired, motivated, and committed.
Partner Spotlight: vChief
33Vincent partner, vChief, shares our vision of helping leaders maximize their time to align with their personal and organizational priorities.
A Day in the Life of a Focused Leader
An executive assistant can help you focus on what's important by blocking off email breaks, meeting prep time, and even family time. See what this looks like in action in this blog post and infographic.
Why You Need An Assistant Who Manages You
A great Executive Assistant knows how to manage up, and doesn’t demand hours of delegation. They extract the most important details of your work and personal life through thoughtful questions and detailed resourcefulness.
How to Use Strategic Delegation for Maximum Return
The key to strategic delegation is having a repeatable, optimized system for offloading a task or project with all the necessary information included.
Questions to Ask Yourself Before Delegating
Many of the leaders we support come to us knowing there’s too much on their plate, but struggle to determine what they can possibly hand off. Read more to shift out of the “no one can do it like I can” mindset, and free your time to focus on your highest-value work.
Starting Your Executive Assistant Partnership Right
We’ve found the best EA/executive relationships develop when leaders see their Executive Assistant as a crucial business partner, and trust them to manage up on what’s most important.
Why an Executive Assistant Is Your Secret Weapon for Leading Through Crisis
By honing in on their top priorities, and by leaning into vision and strategy, effective leaders gain traction, build momentum, and drive change for their organization.