Administrative Professionals, Agenda, Email and Learning

Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you don’t have procedures in place, one approach to onboarding involves having the new hire document the procedures as they learn. This method serves a dual purpose: it ensures that your procedures are up-to-date and allows the new employee to reinforce their learning through the act of documentation.

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How to Share Your Procedures With Your Team

All Things Admin

JANUARY 23, 2024

Send out a quick department-wide email or speak up in the next staff meeting to let people know where to find your procedures. Make improving and updating your procedures an agenda item at every staff meeting. If you’re ready to share your procedures with your team, here are some tips to help you get started.

Mentoring

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Bonnie’s Workplace 2021 Wish List

Bonnie Low Kramen

JANUARY 27, 2021

This may be the perfect time to start playing that instrument, take up a new hobby, learn another language, or write that poem. In a team meeting, they were asked about what they learned about leadership from the COS. Find the people who have no other agenda besides your success. I wish that you feel free. Let the haters go.

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Whose meeting is it anyway?

Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 16, 2010

Do you ever get a meeting request and an agenda has not been provided, or if it is a teleconference the call-in details have not been given or the boardroom hasnt been booked for an internal meeting? My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets 23, 1 p.m. (New

Agenda

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Meeting preparation.

Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 14, 2009

To prepare a minute template simply use your agenda and put it in minute format. Under each agenda heading you can then record the appropriate information when you are in the meeting. I use the meeting agenda as an index with each item as a tab number. My battery power died half way through the meeting. Great blog, Patricia.

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A Test of Your Professionalism: Will You Pass?

The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If you become timid when it comes to speaking in a group meeting, provided you know what the agenda items are prior to the meeting, put them in writing in proposal form and give them to the Chair before the meeting or slide them to him during the meeting. So, how do you maintain a cordial working relationship with this ‘thought thief?’

Administrative Professionals

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Pass it on.

Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 13, 2010

I had no idea this could be done, but I was thrilled when I got her email, but it just proved to me once again that we are all holding on to things we take for granted that others know about. The tip she sent me was how to edit an email that you have received. Close out of the email and you will be asked to Save the changes.

Time Zones

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Preparing your boss for meetings away from the office or at home

Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc. Depending on how formal the meeting is, you may need to draft an agenda for your boss’s review and forward to meeting participants in advance of the meeting. Meeting with Mr. Brown and Ms. Where is the meeting being held?

Time Zones

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Atlanta, Georgia: The City that Smiles

Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Click on that and you will find a wealth of templates from a resume, cover letter, minutes, agenda and many others. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style! I can hardly wait. 23, 1 p.m. (New 411 Look Up 411.ca

Time Zones

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Are you prepared?

Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 13, 2010

The night before I go to a Board meeting, I review all my templates, agendas, binder, attendance sheets and everything I am going to need or might need. Posted by Patricia Robb at 4:45 PM Labels: adminisrative assistant , administrative professional , being organized , being prepared Reactions: 1 comments: Anonymoussaid.

Time Zones

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Meetings Plus: Taking them offline

Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 19, 2009

I tend to keep my scheduling sheets in chronological order and each morning I go through them to see if there is any action I need to take, i.e. follow up to ask for an agenda or see if I can start scheduling. Never underestimate what you can learn from other assistants. Learning from each other is a necessity. 23, 1 p.m. (New

Time Zones

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On the job tips for new Admins.

Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

i.e. My boss will send an email with a cc to me and on the last line or buried in the message he will write something like “I have copied Patricia to set up a teleconference at a mutually convenient time.&# If you are sent an email with a request to do something either asap or later, did you do it or have you diarized it to do it later?

Time Zones

Time Zones IAAP International 2009

Psst! I'm in a bad mood, pass it on.

Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 5, 2009

She had an agenda and was going to let him have it. The worst time to write an email is when you are angry. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style! Hi, how are you?," she said sweetly. What happened?

Time Zones

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Do Bad Bosses Breed Bad Bosses?

The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

How to deal with it: If you keep your bosses calendar, you can ask him ahead of time if he needs anything in particular for the meeting or if you know the agenda you can suggest information your boss can take to the meeting and have it prepared.

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Going Checklist Crazy

Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Posted by Patricia Robb at 4:16 PM Labels: Administrative Assistant , agenda , checklist , executive assistant , minutes , motions , professional assistant , to-do list , voting Reactions: Newer Post Older Post Home Join me for a Webinar, Sept. Being organized helps de-clutter any task and makes it more manageable and doable.

Time Zones

Time Zones IAAP International Meeting Minutes

Make Procedures Development a Habit, Not a Project

All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For example, you may allocate specific time periods throughout the day to check email or send out meeting agendas and reminders. During a board meeting prep week, for instance, email may require more time and attention for last-minute submissions and changes. We must learn to work with our brains instead of against them.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

It is actually the same bring-forward system that I learned in high school, back in the 1970s, but in all my career had never needed to use until now. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style! 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

And youve been following all the best career advice and job search tips youve read, heard, learned, and developed. And of course you don’t want to completely control the meeting, or otherwise disregard the other person’s agenda. Youve been networking your little tail off.

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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Plus it is embarrassing to the leader or the administrative person who set the schedule. Many administrators are now handling their leader’s pre-read meeting materials by printing, reviewing and flagging them as appropriate. Gone are the days when administrators simply reserved a conference room and readied it for the meeting!).

Management

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The Power of the Strategic Partnership Whitepaper

Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We sat down with an extraordinary group of Admin panelists who spoke on the Power of the Strategic Partnership: – Major difference between serving as an Administrative Professional and one who also serves as a Strategic Partner. – How do you prepare yourself to become a Strategic Partner? – ” BE READY TO LEARN.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Below are a few tips so the task is not as daunting: Filling in the blanks I take minutes on a laptop so it is easy to make a template ahead of time which is based on the agenda. I put the items from the agenda on the template in the same order and with a space to put the discussion and decisions/actions from the meeting.

Time Zones

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Word and Outlook 2007 tips

Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 24, 2009

Under Leader, click the leader option that suits your needs i.e. ……1 or --1 Click OK Type text you want i.e. Agenda as in example below. Click Apply and OK To set your email to view b.c.c. In the Paragraph dialog box, click Tabs (bottom left). Then tab over and your leader will appear. spacing To insert a document i.d.

2007

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Virtual Moxie - The Cure For The Common Virtual Assistance.

Virtual Moxie

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Stay away from email! Stay away from email! And I can see his point – in fact, one of the reasons I formalized the Virtual Assistance profession was out of my sense of wanting to help right the inequities I saw the biz world foisting on fabulous administrative professionals. Speed is the enemy of many good things.

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Whose meeting is it anyway?

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Pass it on.

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On the job tips for new Admins.

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Do Bad Bosses Breed Bad Bosses?

Going Checklist Crazy

Make Procedures Development a Habit, Not a Project

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

The Power of the Strategic Partnership Whitepaper

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Word and Outlook 2007 tips

Virtual Moxie - The Cure For The Common Virtual Assistance.

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