Category Archives: ELS Blog

#Timesup, Now What?

Assistants make up the backbone of all industries - industries that don't have award shows to verbalize or visualize their stance in the…
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Sharpening Critical Thinking Skills with Al-Husein Madhany

Our leaders and executives all possess strong critical thinking skills. Isn’t it just as important that we sharpen these skills, too? Al-Husein Madhany…
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Strategic Business Partner vs. Leader

What's truly the difference between being a strategic business partner to your executive and being an influential leader? Rhonda Scharf helps uncover the…
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Becoming a Respected Member of the Leadership Team

Five steps towards becoming a respected member of the leadership team for executive assistants.
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The Assistant’s Guide: Navigating Situations When You’re Out of the Loop

Patrick Healy, President of New York Celebrity Assistants, provides his advice, tips and tricks for navigating out of the loop scenarios in an…
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Building a Strategic Executive and Executive Assistant Relationship

Hilani Ellis, Founder of Exceptional Admins, LLC, provides insight on how to build a strategic business partnership between and executive and an executive…
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Honing Emotional Intelligence to Guide Communication

Sarah Chase, COO of Alda Communication Training, provides insight on how to nourish and guide conversation to get the outcome you are looking…
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Why Professional Development Is the Perfect Gift

With Administrative Professionals’ Day this week, it urges the question, what’s a gift that reflects the multi-faceted and difficult job of an executive…
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Fluency of Thought and Flexibility of Action: The Assistant’s Guide to Developing a Plan C During Travel

Patrick Healy, President of New York Celebrity Assistants, shares his insight, advice, and technology must-haves for the top 6 scenarios assistants navigate. In…
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Fluency of Thought and Flexibility of Action: The Assistant’s Guide to Scheduling

Fluency of Thought and Flexibility of Action: The Assistant’s Guide to Developing a Plan C   When Scheduling Executive assistants are business game…
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