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How You Can Combat Collaboration Overload to Improve Company Performance—and Your Own

Success

A 2016 Harvard Business Review article found that over the past two decades, time spent by leadership and employees in collaborative activities has grown by more than 50%. So it’s critical to get a handle on managing collaboration. A lack of cross-training could negatively impact a project or cause service interruptions.

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Skills required to be a good minute taker

Practically Perfect PA

Ensure you turn up to the meeting having read the agenda, any background papers, the minutes of the previous meeting and with all the tools you need to take the minutes whether that be pen, highlighter, paper, recording device, laptop or iPad. This guest post was written by Robyn Bennett, Director, Team Link Training Ltd, New Zealand.

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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

Our conference was held in October 2016 in Las Vegas. Our team-building activity for 2016 was called Compression Planning®: From Idea to Action and Results Faster. The 4 main topics to be addressed were: Revolutionary ways to get the communication and information you need from your manager. We received 700 responses!!!