Calendar Changes And Your Admin
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This guidance describes some simple things your admin can do to help you manage your calendar.
We've spent a great deal of time recently working with executives. That means working on calendars. Calendar management – the merging of priorities and one's limited time – is one of the hallmarks of an effective executive. What that usually means for us working with someone is that there's a problem between what the priorities are and what actually gets done.
But there are a lot of ways a priority may end up on the cutting room floor. Maybe it really oughtn't be a priority. Maybe it never makes it to the calendar. Maybe it makes it but never get actioned. And, as we've been noticing recently, maybe the executive's admin isn't helping as much as he could be.
Here are some simple, fast tips to help you make sure your admin is doing all she can to make you an effective executive when it comes to changes on your calendar. They happen a LOT. No, it's not the whole story, but there are many more casts in this vein in our future.
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How many managers have admins?
In my organisation (a UK-based, 35,000 strong business process outsourcing company), very few managers have personal assistants, admins or secretaries.
We are all expected to manage our own calendars.
Is that different in the US?
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This is poscasting for an audience of 4.
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I think there was a lot of value in the cast. There were specific references to what to do if you don't have an admin. Also, I'd point out that some people really do have an admin, but they don't use them as such. Yet, her admin would be thrilled to be elevated to this status & importance. To be sure, I won't be making the same mistake if I ever get promoted.
Thanks for a great cast.
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Good to hear you say he or she in reference to the admin in the podcast. The synopsis just says she...
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