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Our Mission and Values:

This is a blog designed to act as a central point of reference for assistants and other office workers to gather and share information, resources and ideas.

It is our goal that everything offered on this site is relevant, interesting and unique.

Participation and feedback from the readers is always encouraged and appreciated.

New content will be posted at least three times a week.

We will work to continually update and improve the look and design of the site (input is welcome).

Who am I?

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My name is Chrissy and I am, of course, an Executive Assistant. Believe it or not, that’s just one of the many jobs I do…

I consider myself very lucky because I enjoy my job (and okay, I think I’m pretty good at it too). I try (and succeed most of the time) to keep a positive outlook when it comes to work. I’m passionate about personal development and the process of learning and growing. I enjoy reading almost anything - especially things that make me feel like I’m improving myself. I’m also a compulsive writer - I’m always working on something, whether it’s a novel, a poem or just my daily journal. So it seemed natural to mesh two things I love together into this blog. And hopefully, it helps a few people along the way!

How did E.A. Toolbox come to be?

The idea for this blog was hatched at work one day when I found myself slogging through the wild Internet wastelands in search of help. The question: How to effectively organize the management of my boss’s monthly expense reports. The process was a frustrating, disorganized mess that caused both him and me to dread the topic. Thus we found ourselves three months behind and I was charged with finding a new way to tackle the problem and prevent it from happening again. My strategy: I Googled it. And, outside of learning that there is an incredible amount of really useless looking accounting software out there, I gained no insight into how to manage the process. So this got me thinking: Executive Assistants face a lot of unique situations exactly like this. And somewhere out there, an Executive Assistant has a very simple and effective strategy for handling her boss’s expense reports. PRESTO! The E.A. Tool Box was born as a way to build a community for assistants of all kinds - Executive, Administrative, Personal and Everything In Between - to gather together their best and brightest ideas for managing the complicated and ecclectic duties we are tasked with.

I encourage everyone to share their strategies and resources. Don’t hold back! We have a lot to learn from each other. If you’re like me (and I’m guessing that, if you’re reading this, you are) you realize that your job as an Assistant is absolutely essentialto the success of your “boss” - whatever that is - a company or a person. The desire to do well will come through in your actions. And whatever you want to do with your career - if you want to be the boss’s assistant until the day he or she retires, or if you want to someday be the boss - the strategies for success are the same: SEEK out opportunities. TRY new strategies. SHARE winning strategies. And always keep LEARNING.

I hope you enjoy this blog, participate and pass it along.

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Best of luck in all your endeavors!

Chrissy