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Upping your A(ssisting) game when you work with a Board of Trustees

Executive Leadership Support Blog

Many of us not only work with the CEOs of our companies, we also have the luxury of working for the company’s Board of Trustees. We are privy to knowledge that no one else in the company is privy to. Offer to help put together the agenda for meetings, offer to tackle a project for a committee. And I would say yes!,

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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

It provided quite popular so I thought I’d write a little something on working with Committees in general. The saying goes that there are three requirements to make up an effective Committee – the right task, the right people and the right process. The agenda. The meeting space. The date, time and venue.

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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

It provided quite popular so I thought I’d write a little something on working with Committees in general. The saying goes that there are three requirements to make up an effective Committee – the right task, the right people and the right process. The agenda. The meeting space. The date, time and venue.

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10 Changes Your Organization Must Make To Succeed This Year

Allwork

Global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company published a new report last week called, “The State of Organizations 2023: Ten shifts transforming organizations” which surveyed more than 2,500 business leaders around the world to find out how organizations are navigating today’s challenges. times higher growth, and 4.8

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Minute taking template

Practically Perfect PA

If your company does not have a branded template you should suggest this to your manager and design something for them, a simple word template with the following information will suffice: The name of the Committee meeting. The date, time and location of the meeting. The attendees. The apologies. The name of the minute taker.

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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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Ten tips on preparing board papers

Practically Perfect PA

Working for a Company Secretary in one role and looking after 12 Committees in another means I have spent more time than I care to admit putting board papers together. Then add the number of each board paper to the correlating agenda item. They have been the absolute bane of my life and I must admit I hated that part of my role.

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