And I'm not good at. In fact, it's worse than not being good at. When I do them, I just kind of screw up and make work for everybody else.

Hi, I'm Michael Hyatt. And I'm Megan Hyatt Miller. And this is lead to win our weekly podcast to help you win at work and

succeed at life. Last week we talked about four rules for effective delegation.

But that begs the question, who are you delegating to?

Well, there's no hire that is more essential for a successful business owner or an executive than a great executive assistant.

Well, today we're going to talk about three essential tasks a world class executive assistant can do for you.

I love talking about executive assistants, you know, when we think about our coaching clients, this topic is probably one of the most popular.

Because I think people, particularly business owners and executives, have this sense that they need help.

They need somebody to kind of run point on all the supportive activities that are mission critical.

And yet it kind of feels like a black box, you know, it's not like you learn in business school or or, you know, college or whatever.

How to hire a great executive assistant or even more challenging how to manage a great executive assistant.

And so I think people sense that there's a lot of potential here, but they don't quite know how to access it.

And so that's what we're going to dig into today and I'm pumped.

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Okay, I want to start with a story.

So back when I was in the big corporate world, I had two full time executive assistants.

So one of them, their full time responsibility was managing my calendar, booking my travel, anything that was calendar related.

The other one managed my inbox, took meeting notes, did all the things that were related to being a CEO of a bigger company.

And so when I left that, I thought I am so done with the bureaucracy of a big company.

I don't need no stinking executive assistant.

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