My Executive Assistant handles our schedule, travel, and office management, but we are struggling to find weekly, objective measurables for this seat that do not feel like subjective checklists. What actual leading indicators should we track on our scorecard for an executive support role?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

An executive assistant or executive support seat is vital for keeping leadership focused, but measuring this seat can be frustrating because the work is highly qualitative. To design effective weekly leading indicators for this back office seat, you must look at the primary outputs they control: calendar efficiency, travel coordination, and executive communication. First, identify the main friction points on your leadership team. If meetings are constantly rescheduled, create a metric for meetings rescheduled more than once. If the visionary is constantly bogged down in admin tasks, track the number of admin hours offloaded to the assistant. Another powerful measurable is executive email inbox clean-out frequency, ensuring the executive inbox is cleared to zero at the end of every Friday. You can also track the timeliness of meeting minutes and next-step actions distributed within twenty-four hours of a leadership meeting. Ensure the assistant has single-point ownership of these numbers on your Accountability Chart and fully understands the GWC for each measurable. Do not settle for subjective ratings. Instead, measure the percentage of executive travel itineraries delivered forty-eight hours prior to departure, or the weekly score of leadership team satisfaction with calendar management. This keeps the back office seat highly aligned with operational efficiency.