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Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings

Office Dynamics

have increased are due in part to the rise in teams and requisite team meetings and technology such as video-conferencing accommodating slashed travel budgets. Distribute an agenda to participants before the meeting. Transfer action items to follow-up lists, calendars, and “to-do” folder. The reasons meetings.

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Looking Forward in 2011

Laughing all the Way to Work

The new year is a good time to bring up the Look-Forward Agenda. The Look-Forward Agenda is very helpful for this. It is basically a list of items that are regularly dealt with throughout the year and provides a timetable of when these items need to be added to the agenda. Happy New Year everyone!

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Shorter, More Effective Meetings

Office Dynamics

By firmly implementing this one thing, expecting everyone to block think time in their calendar before every meeting, most organizations can cut meeting time by 50% or more. As a result, if the person who called the meeting hasn’t put out a clear agenda, or verbally told you what the purpose is, you need to contact him or her and ask.

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Shorter, More Effective Meetings

Office Dynamics

By firmly implementing this one thing, expecting everyone to block think time in their calendar before every meeting, most organizations can cut meeting time by 50% or more. As a result, if the person who called the meeting hasn’t put out a clear agenda, or verbally told you what the purpose is, you need to contact him or her and ask.

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The One Productive Weekly Meeting You're Not Having (But Should)

Productivityist

Review the calendar for the next two weeks. Set an agenda. This should go without saying, but if you go into the meeting with your life partner without some sort of agenda then you''re setting yourself up for an unfocused session. During our meeting, we''ll do some (or all) of the following: Plan meals for the week.

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Major Meltdown in Time Management - Tips to Avoid it Happening To You

Stephanie LH Calahan

T hen I just review each night for the next day to make sure I am on task - I take my daily to-dos from my master and I schedule my to-do mistycb   @ StephCalahan using iPhone apps:etodo,calendar & www.hassleme.co.uk/ deusami   @ StephCalahan Trying out a moleskin plan. Notes from all areas of life in the front.

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Review: Shifts for iOS

Productivityist

If you’ve ever put your work calendar into your Google Calendar (or equivalent) and you are an iPhone user then Shifts is an app that will allow you to “shift” away from that and enter your work schedule into it instead. So Shifts becomes a budgeting tool and a scheduling tool in that sense. Think again.