Tell us what you need us to do and then let us do it.

Give us some breathing room because we're professionals and we're good at it.

Sometimes you're too close to things to even notice that there's an issue and you just do things that way because that's how they've always been done.

That's just Lindgren.

She's got over 20 years of experience as an administrative professional, and her main

mission is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of EAs around the world.

She served numerous luminaries, including guests of this very show.

She's also the host of the business podcast, Ask an Assistant, where she shares lessons

learned, best practices, and actionable advice for anyone looking to hire or work with an assistant. So you'll learn one, the must have traits of any great assistant, two, the key to hiring an assistant, and three, where to find great assistants hiding in your very own network. And if you want a quick summary write-up of the actionable

takeaways Jess shared, I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter,

which you could find at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at

your job. And now here's Jess. Jess, welcome. Pete, thank you so much for having me.

Well, I'm so excited to get into your wisdom. We are talking about assistants, assisting,

whether you are the assistant or the assisted, I think we'll have a lot of valuable wisdom to unfold here.

And I want to first hear in the assisting game,

what is something that has been a surprising learning you've picked up that is just transformational?

That makes for assistance working great versus not so great.

I think the biggest thing is that people don't think about this.

People think about this more now than they did.

I have been an administrative professional and executive assistant for over 20 years now.

And things have definitely changed in that time.

And people used to be way more focused. And this is

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