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Free Resources
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Free Resources for Executive Assistants and Chiefs of Staff
Career assessments, practical tools, blog posts, videos, and podcast episodes — all free, all designed specifically for admin professionals. No credit card. No sales pitch. Just useful stuff.
Interactive Tools
Start Here
These are the best places to begin if you're not sure where to focus your development. Each tool gives you personalised results you can act on immediately.
The Connected Leader Assessment
A free, interactive self-assessment that maps your leadership competencies across the skills that matter most for admin professionals. Takes 10 minutes. Gives you a personalised growth roadmap showing exactly where to focus next. Over 500 admin professionals have taken it.
Best for: Getting a clear picture of your strengths, gaps, and next steps.
Discover Your Core Values
An interactive exercise that walks you through identifying the five values that drive your decisions, your energy, and your career satisfaction. When you know what matters most to you, every career decision gets clearer, from whether to take that promotion to whether to leave a toxic workplace.
Best for: Making better career decisions and understanding what drives you.
The Irreplaceable Audit
A practical tool that helps you assess how replaceable (or irreplaceable) you are in your current role, and what to do about it. It's an honest look at the gap between "busy" and "valuable," and it gives you a clear action plan.
Best for: Understanding your real value and identifying where to double down.
The Blog
Practical Advice You Can Actually Use
Our blog covers the topics that matter most to admin professionals: managing up, setting boundaries, building executive presence, navigating career transitions, and dealing with the specific challenges that come with supporting senior leaders. No fluff. No recycled management theory. Just practical guidance from someone who's done the job.
Popular posts include:
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How to manage up when your executive is the problem
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Setting boundaries without being labelled "difficult"
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The skills that actually get EAs promoted
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How to build your executive presence in five minutes a day
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When to stay, when to go: making career decisions as an admin professional
Watch and Listen
YouTube Channel
Short, practical videos on managing up, building your career, setting boundaries, and developing the leadership skills that matter for admin professionals. New videos regularly.
The Connected Assistants Podcast
Longer-form conversations and insights on career development, leadership, and what it really means to be a high-performing admin professional. Available on Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts.
Event Replays
Watch Past Workshops and Summits
Recordings of our live online events, workshops, and summits. Past events have covered managing up with intention, building executive presence, decision-making under pressure, career storytelling, and building influence without authority. Free to access.
When You're Ready for More
Free resources are a great starting point. But if you want structured, supported development, the kind that actually changes your career trajectory, here's where to go next:
Online Courses
Self-paced, CPD-accredited courses on the skills that matter most for admin professionals. Practical exercises, downloadable resources, and certification.
Clarity Sprint
Our intensive career coaching programme for EAs and Chiefs of Staff who feel stuck or unclear about their next move. Includes 1:1 coaching, practical exercises, and ongoing support. $549 USD / £420 GBP.
→ Learn About the Clarity Sprint
1:1 Mentoring
Personalised guidance from Meg Steinschauer, former EA and Chief of Staff. Bring your specific challenge and leave with clarity. Pick My Brain sessions start at $15.
The Inner Circle
Our community for admin professionals who want ongoing learning, early access to new resources, and connection with other EAs and Chiefs of Staff.