Ten things you could get your PA to do for you:

1. manage your diary
2. Screen calls and protect your time from time wasters
3. Type up letters
4. respond to low priority emails (from a selection of basic template letters) and phone calls
5. call you with questions that you can answer quickly and she’d sort it out from there
6. phone prospects, arrange appointments and pay accounts
7. Organise morning teas for office visitors
8. Remember your wife’s and family’s birthdays and wedding anniversary – set up cards and send them
9. Ring you if you go over meetings if there was another meeting pending, would apologise if you were running late
10. manage your emails
11. Keep your direct line secret
12. field basic questions from staff
13. schedule emergency time with staff if needed, to fit in with your diary without disrupting what you are doing
14. prepare you fully for your meetings
15. Organise your presentations and audio visual needs
16. take your coaching notes and print out posters, actions and what you need to focus on for the week.
17. Defend you in the office and protect your confidentiality

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