The Assistant Files by Elizabeth Gilbert
In cooperation with Ops Boss Coaching
I just created this new email signature for myself using Google Docs, and it’s super simple! First, open a new Google Docs document. Then, click Insert > Table and create a 2×1 table. Insert your photo in the left box…
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There are lots of things that matter in life and business. In life, we can say that the important things, the thing that matter, are family, finances, faith, health, friends, personal growth, etc. In a real estate business, we can…
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I came across this piece of advice today, “Accept chaos as a pre-existing condition, and avoid struggling against it.” As executive assistants in real estate, we are going to experience chaos on a daily basis. There’s no getting around it….
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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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