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video description. Today
I'm going to share the five tools
I can't live without as an EA. You'll find links to all of these tools in the
video description. Anyone
who's been following me for a while
knows that first on the list has to be
Trello. I've tried Asana and Monday but I always come back to Trello. It's
free, it's incredibly easy to use, it's beautiful and most importantly
it does what I want, which is practically everything. I'm not going to do a demo because there are several videos on this channel showing how I use Trello already
and if you're and EA How To Plus member you can watch the replay of my Ultimate Trello Tutorial for EAs through the
members portal. What I will say is it Trello is my guiding light. It is
all of my to-do lists, it shows all of my progress, and it's stores all of
the information
I need to do my job.
Trello is how I stay organised. The second tool on my list is a calendar scheduling
platform.
I was using Motion and for the most part
I was enjoying it, but unfortunately the company currently holds some
really inappropriate views about executive assistants
so I cancelled that subscription and at the moment
I'm using Calendly. There are loads of scheduling platforms out there.
What is important is that you have one that works for you.
The more customisable the better. Next on the list of most useful tools
is Time and Date. Pretty self-explanatory. EAs are constantly dealing
with people and meetings across lots of different time zones. Time and
Date is your best friend.
It's amazing
how many people get this very simple concept very very wrong and with
time and date at your disposal
there really is no excuse. Side note - when you're arranging a meeting with someone
in another time zone
I'm begging you to please please please include your time zone and the
time zone of the person you are dealing with. For example, "Jane is available at 15:00 British Summer Time / 10:00 Eastern Daylight Time. Does that work for you?"
Number 5 on my list is a password manager.
I have Dashlane on my laptop and 1password on another and I'm happy
with both of them.
No matter what, in this day and age with the number of logins you need to
keep track of and the number of logins you need to share is an EA, you
absolutely need a password manager.
Now
I know I said I was giving you 5 tools, but I have like two bonus tools to share.
The first isn't a tool, but rather a resource.
It is an EA community.
I would be lost without the EA How To private community.
It's the most incredibly supportive community and among the thousands of
dedicated, talented members,
you can always be sure multiple people will answer your question and help
you out.
The other tool I use a lot which might not be essential for all EAs but is definitely essential for me is Canva. Video thumbnails,
invitations, announcements, presentations.
I do everything on Canva and I would be lost without it.
That's all for now.
I do hope I see you in the EA How To private community on Facebook.
Becoming an EA How To Plus number and I'll see you there.
Bye for now.