Working with a Personal Assistant
by Lottie Mackintosh
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Unfortunately, you can't just hire an assistant and become an effective team overnight. Even the most experienced assistants will need time to develop an understanding of how you work, and of how you can get the most from them. They can't do this on their own - you need to help them. This is just what many managers don't know how to do.
This book will provide you with tangible and realistic steps towards forming a great and effective relationship with your personal assistant. Follow the advice of the Redgate team and over time you'll build an understanding of one another's strengths and weaknesses, and you'll co-evolve into a fantastically effective pairing. 
Book Description
A truly effective assistant knows their manager's priorities, concerns and responsibilities as well as they do themselves. They know how to make their manager more effective, and how to help them add value. They work alongside their manager as part of a tight-knit, high-functioning team, sharing a single purpose and workload. Of all teams, of all working relationships, I believe this one has the capacity to be the most transformative for a business.Unfortunately, you can't just hire an assistant and become an effective team overnight. Even the most experienced assistants will need time to develop an understanding of how you work, and of how you can get the most from them. They can't do this on their own - you need to help them. This is just what many managers don't know how to do.
This book will provide you with tangible and realistic steps towards forming a great and effective relationship with your personal assistant. Follow the advice of the Redgate team and over time you'll build an understanding of one another's strengths and weaknesses, and you'll co-evolve into a fantastically effective pairing.
This open book is licensed strictly for personal or educational use. You can download Working with a Personal Assistant ebook for free in PDF format (2.2 MB).
Table of Contents
Part 1
Getting Started
Section 1
My Unreliability Nightmare
Section 2
How Do You Know You Need a Personal Assistant?
Section 3
What Personal Assistants Do and Why it's important
Part 2
Creating an Effective Working Relationship
Section 4
Building Trust
Section 5
Context
Section 6
How to Build Context
Part 2
Next Steps
Section 7
Help Your Personal Assistant to Develop
Section 8
How to Hire a Great Personal Assistant
Section 9
Sharing a Personal Assistant
Section 10
The PA Team
Book Details
Title
Working with a Personal Assistant
Publisher
Red Gate
Published
2016
Pages
87
Edition
1
Language
English
PDF Size
2.2 MB
License
For personal or educational use
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