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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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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

Here are some ideas: Daily Calendars Technology is not perfect and neither are humans. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar. Or because so many leaders are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner. Shared calendar. Train to manage.

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How to Stop Wasting Time – External Factors

Ian's Messy Desk

These time-wasters fall into two types: internal, those things we generate and external, those things that come at us from outside. Use follow-up flags or dated calendar alarms to bring forward e-mail when it needs attention. Review your voice messages, take notes and delete them. Work from an agenda. Voice Mail.

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

Laughing all the Way to Work

Secure the date and time in his or her calendar, taking into consideration travel time if outside the office. State the purpose of the meeting in the calendar appointment as well as who will be at the meeting (i.e. Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Do Bad Bosses Breed Bad Bosses?

The Office Professionals Place

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. Again, explain the benefits to requesting projects ahead of time and put it in writing.

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Arizona Virtual Assistants Retreat

Loosely Speaking

The Embassy Suites Biltmore is also the site of the International Virtual Assistants Association Summit in April 2010. If you’re a VA in the area interested in participating in this FREE event, drop me a line at ktcosmos at LooseEnds dot net and I’ll send you the particulars. join AZVAs on yahoogroups and get the talk going.Â

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