Every relationship will have strain, including the one with your Assistant.

This is NORMAL. But that doesn’t mean the relationship can stay there if you two are ever going to grow.

Today, I’m going to share 3 strategies to help you recalibrate the strained relationship you have with your EA.

I know from experience that when you work as an Executive Assistant, you can be asked to help your Executive with almost everything. Planning a funeral, catching and relocating a groundhog, or revising an itinerary when a lunch and a flight conflict.

How do you make it work? Well, you figure it out.

Today, I want to talk about why as a Leader it’s OK and important to want to work with people who are capable of “figuring it out.”

Have you ever allowed an aspect of your business to atrophy, waste away, or lose effectiveness due to underuse or neglect?

This can happen in many aspects of your business, can’t it? Team building, finances, marketing, leads, sales, social media engagement and team morale can all suffer if you neglect them.

Are you a business owner who has felt burned by an Executive Assistant or two? You’re not alone.

Maybe it was your fault for not being clear with expectations. Or, maybe your former EA ghosted you without warning.

Whatever the case, trying to hire after disappointment is hard. You worry about investing time, money and resources in someone who may not work out. It’s OK that you feel gun shy!

Do you struggle to get feedback from past or current customers? It can be intimidating to hear what people think. If you fear rejection or criticism, you may be tempted to not ask for feedback at all!

The problem is if we don’t ask, we run the risk of LOSING unhappy clients or creating a negative customer experience.

Passion is the start of any good business idea. That, and identifying a problem.

Unfortunately, the rigor of actually creating and sustaining a business can be the reason many of you feel less passionate about what you do every day.

Today, I want to talk to you about how to keep the passion alive in your business.

I have 11 strategies that you can act on right away.

I think most of us leaders are aware that we STRUGGLE to stay on track with our priorities.

There are many reasons for this. Sometimes, everything really is important!

Other times, we are bombarded with interruptions, or fall victim to context switching multiple times a day.

Not to mention, real-life happens!

Today I want to talk about how to create a culture of accountability in your company.

Accountability is my love language. I love when people do what they say they are going to do.

But that’s not always the norm is it?

What do you do as a leader when the ball drops, or the deadline passes, and your team has nothing to show for the work they committed to doing?

Desperation, or hunger to succeed without a backup plan, may be what determines your early success as an entrepreneur, but it can’t be your modus operandi.

Desperation functions like a stinky perfume most prospects can sense a mile away.

Today we are talking about how to show our power, not our desperation, as business owners.

In this episode I’m going to answer these questions and share my personal experience with handling a team’s emotional insecurities. I will also give examples of what not to do so that you don’t make matters worse — for yourself or others!

In this episode of the podcast, I want to share about a time a job seeker realllyyy bothered me.

Why? Because they f*cked with my time and LIED to get ahead.

EAs, if you’re listening, consider this episode what NOT to do to advance your careers.

Leaders…this woman is proof that you can’t always trust a resume or face behind a Zoom call. I’ll share some tips for getting the truth out in an interview.

If you are an executive, you know that interruptions can cut into your productivity.

Here are some tips to stay focused and get more done in less time.