{"id":1060208,"date":"2022-11-11T16:41:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiger-recruitment.com\/career-and-personal-development-us\/essential-personal-assistant-tools\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T15:48:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T14:48:02","slug":"essential-personal-assistant-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiger-recruitment.com\/us\/career-and-personal-development-us\/essential-personal-assistant-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Essential Executive Assistant Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Executive assistants may be known for their resourcefulness and can-do attitude, but even the best rely on a little help from smart tech to <a href=\"https:\/\/tiger-recruitment.com\/us\/career-and-personal-development-us\/six-tips-to-improve-your-organization-and-productivity-at-work\/\">boost their productivity<\/a>. These online services are becoming more and more vital with the rise of <a href=\"https:\/\/tiger-recruitment.com\/us\/remote-working-us\/pa-va-transition-virtual-assistant\/\">remote-working PAs<\/a> and EAs.<\/p>\n<p>In this list, we\u2019ve highlighted the top software and apps designed to complement the most common <a href=\"https:\/\/tiger-recruitment.com\/us\/job-seekers-us\/what-does-a-personal-assistant-do\/\">executive assistant duties<\/a>, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diary management<\/li>\n<li>Project management<\/li>\n<li>Travel &amp; accommodation<\/li>\n<li>Expenses<\/li>\n<li>Comms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the executive assistant resources listed below have desktop and smartphone versions, can be integrated with other apps and, best of all, have a free tier! So, what are the best EA and virtual assistant tools?<\/p>\n<h3>Diary management: Calendly<\/h3>\n<p>A big part of the executive assistant role is keeping on top of the manager\u2019s diary. With new client appointments, team meetings and event invitations coming in from multiple platforms every day, a coordinating tool like Calendly is indispensable. It can integrate all online calendars into one place, and allow contacts to view a manager\u2019s availability and book in a meeting \u2013 all without the long emails back and forth.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Top tip: <\/strong>Include a link to Calendly in your email signature to make it even easier for contacts to secure a free slot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Tidying up the to do list: Trello<\/h3>\n<p>Trello is hugely popular across industries and professions, and for good reason. It\u2019s a customizable, easy-to-use, shareable task manager that helps teams work seamlessly together. EAs can organize theirs and their manager\u2019s day-to-day tasks in a simple, visual style that will help to prioritize work, separate different projects, and set deadlines.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Top tip: <\/strong>Are you currently using spreadsheets to create project plans and to do lists? Trello lets you convert these into its card-based system simply by copying and pasting it in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Travel itinerary: TravelPerk<\/h3>\n<p>Booking and managing travel and accommodation can be a messy business. Shopping around for the best airline and hotel deals often means you end up juggling emails from different travel companies for every leg of a business trip. Enter TravelPerk: a one-stop shop for plane, train and hotel bookings! Executive assistants can view all tickets, amendments, and cancellations on their desktop or mobile, making one of the most stressful aspects of the role manageable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Top tip: <\/strong>For B Corp certified companies like Tiger, sustainable travel is a must. Use GreenPerk to not only offset your carbon footprint, but make meaningful contributions to environmental projects around the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Balancing the books: Expensify<\/h3>\n<p>With Expensify, EAs can create automatic expense reports, input physical receipts via photos, and even sync with apps like TravelPerk to import digital receipts. Cutting out tricky manual inputting makes this a real time-saver.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Top tip: <\/strong>The optional Expensify Card can be used as a replacement for company credit cards, with customizable spending limits and smart fraud protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Flawless writing: Grammarly<\/h3>\n<p>Corresponding with clients and other senior partners on behalf of their manager is a significant responsibility for an EA. They will need excellent writing skills and an understanding of tone of voice. Grammarly is the perfect tool to help with this. Not only does it catch any grammatical errors that could reflect badly on the manager, but it will also suggest revisions to the writing to make it clearer, more concise, and appropriate to different audiences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Top tip:<\/strong> Use the \u2018tone detector\u2019 to choose between formal, neutral, and informal tones of voice \u2013 because we all let our emotions slip into our writing sometimes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>With these tools in their arsenal, an EA will free up hours of time spent on admin, and in turn help their manager be more productive.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re an EA starting to use these tools, don\u2019t forget to add them to your CV! Refer to our <a href=\"https:\/\/tiger-recruitment.com\/us\/career-and-personal-development-us\/pa-resume-template\/\">executive assistant resume template<\/a> for extra tips on getting ahead of the pack.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking to <a href=\"https:\/\/tiger-recruitment.com\/us\/looking-to-recruit\/executive-assistant-recruitment\/\">hire an executive assistant<\/a>, read our <a href=\"https:\/\/tiger-recruitment.com\/us\/employers-and-hiring-practice-us\/ultimate-guide-how-to-hire-a-personal-assistant\/\">guide to hiring a EA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tiger-recruitment.com\/us\/looking-to-recruit\/hire-form\/\">get in touch with your requirements.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive assistants may be known for their resourcefulness and can-do attitude, but even the best rely on a little help from smart tech to boost their productivity. These online services are becoming more and more vital with the rise of remote-working PAs and EAs. In this list, we\u2019ve highlighted the top software and apps designed<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tiger-recruitment.com\/us\/career-and-personal-development-us\/essential-personal-assistant-tools\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273222,"featured_media":1032446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"insight-type":[],"class_list":["post-1060208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-and-personal-development-us"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Top personal assistant resources and tools | Tiger Recruitment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Are you a personal assistant looking to boost your productivity? 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