Remote Assistant Success
Welcome to the Remote Assistant Success course bundle. This is the right course for you if you want to:
- Learn productivity tips for remote working
- Work for a fully remote company
- Help your company during times where remote working is necessary
Check the events page for live webinars.
Join the Slack channel #course_remoteassistantsuccess to discuss the course with your peers.
Lessons you’ll learn
- Mindset
- Hiring Framework
- Benefits and Drawbacks
- Productivity Tips
- Must know tech
- Daily Routine
- Logistics
- Remote meeting icebreakers
- Best practices
Your Instructor
Ebony Belhumeur
Ebony is the curator and blogger behind The Assistants List. Past lives include EA to the CEO of Sephora and the EA to the CEO at Twitch. Currently, she lives in Tours, France while working for a fully remote company in Silicon Valley.
Coursebooks
Videos
Downloadables
Wallpaper
Do Not Disturb Signs
Additional Resources
Ideation and Iteration
In this article Ebony Belhumeur discusses ideation, iteration and the art of strategic problem solving As the Fourth Industrial Revolution marches on, the disruption to jobs and skills is coupled with rapid innovation and improved productivity.
Estimate the Cost of a Meeting with This Calculator
Stuck in an unproductive meeting — again? Everyone agrees that meetings can be a waste of time, but they’re actually a waste of money, too. How much?
Trello
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what’s being worked on, who’s working on what, and where something is in a process.
Slack
Slack is the collaboration hub that brings the right people, information and tools together to get work done.
GSuite
Everything you need to do your best work, together in one package that works seamlessly from your computer, phone or tablet.
Pomodoro Time
Pomodoro Timers are a great productivity hack. You set the timer to work for 25 minutes and then a 5 minute break. Make sure you give your eyes a rest from looking at your screen.
The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method that can be used for any task. For many people, time is an enemy. The anxiety triggered by “the ticking clock”, especially when it involves a deadline, leads to ineffective work and study habits which in turn lead to procrastination.
The aim of the Pomodoro Technique is to use time as a valuable ally in accomplishing what we want to do in the way we want to do it, and to enable us to improve continually the way we work or study.
