The Assistant Files by Elizabeth Gilbert
Tips, Advice, and Insight for Real Estate Administrative Professionals
If you’re having communication issues with the people on your team, it could be that you are unapproachable. When you’re unapproachable, this results in team members not giving you information in a timely manner, avoiding you unless you approach them…
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Remember back when times were simple and the only calendar you had to manage was your own? Ahh, the good old days! In high school, it was the class schedule coupled with an assignment tracker all in a spiral paper…
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Abraham Maslow has been attributed as saying, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” I take a lot of pride in being the hammer….
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Often a real estate agent who is doing well for themselves will hire an executive assistant to do all the things the agent doesn’t want to do: paperwork, monitoring deadlines and details, putting up and taking down signs and lockboxes,…
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I have no doubt that I’ve become even more introverted as I have aged. As I write this, my 41st birthday is in a few days. Birthdays have a way of reminding me that I’m getting older. At this age,…
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Confession time: I’ve been a real estate executive assistant or Chief Operations Officer for 13 years now, and until just last year, fall of 2017, I had only been using a 411 sporadically. The 411 is a goal-setting worksheet designed…
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Did the title of this post catch your attention? I first heard this concept through an interview with Gene Rivers on The ONE Thing Podcast and I it really caught my attention and made me think. My first thoughts were, “Well I’m…
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What is a strategic partnership? According to a 2013 article on Forbes.com, “A strategic partner is another business with whom you enter into an agreement that aims to help both of you achieve more success.” What I’d like to point…
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I love baking cookies. I love the simplicity of it. You follow the recipe and you get a tasty treat. Baking for Christmas requires a certain skill though that can be applied to your work as a real estate executive…
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When hiring a real estate executive assistant, one particular skill that real estate agents are looking for is organization. Simply put, the agent wants their new hire to take all the chaos they’ve created and turn it into something systematic…
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