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Zooming In On Engagement: How Turning Off Your Camera Can Hurt Your Career

Allwork

The verdict is unanimous: workplace leaders are in agreement that turning the Zoom camera off can have a negative impact on company culture and diminish employee engagement. Be sure to clearly communicate the intent of the call or agenda to orient participants to what’s coming.

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Keeping Virtual Teams Focused In The Pandemic Era

BioTeams

Zoom, however due to its ease of use and platform agnostic deployment, is now well ensconced within many companies virtual meeting arsenal. Point 3 is actually relevant in the context of the learning organisation, as it’s a foundational method to break silos and involve intra and cross company collaboration by the way!

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7 Golden Rules for Successful Virtual Meetings

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Set a clear agenda Another massive time waster happens when people say “let’s meet at 10am Tuesday,” then don’t prepare ahead for the meeting. To facilitate that, you need an agenda. Most of the time, that means you should also limit the agenda, rather than attempting to cram a lot of things in. There are several options!

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Answering Reader Mail: Social Etiquette for EAs

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

My question is regarding social etiquette: I recently started working in a very small company that is very successful; I attribute this to the fact that we hire only the best (we have people from Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc.). While the comments she made had some validity, I feel that I should go by each company's specific culture.

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Minute Taking Q&A

Laughing all the Way to Work

In this scenario when they were at the first agenda item to approve the agenda, someone asked if Business Arising could be added to the agenda and went on to say why they thought it was important. Approval of Agenda The agenda was accepted as presented. The group agreed to add it. I would record it as follows: 1.

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Does it matter if we go to office party?

Laughing all the Way to Work

At our local IAAP chapter dinner we heard a speaker from an etiquette protocol company Savoir-Faire and she suggested that it was very important to go to the office party because it was more about protocol and networking and how you are viewed as a team player than socializing. And by all means try to make a good impression.

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Whose meeting is it anyway?

Laughing all the Way to Work

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

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