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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Procedures show you, step-by-step, how to perform a specific task – for example, completing an expense report or submitting a check request. A good system is documentable, sharable, and repeatable. The best way to explain how to document your systems on paper is to show you. Determine the agenda and who is presenting.

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The ultimate guide to diary management

Practically Perfect PA

There are also a lot of tasks related to diary management, for example ensuring our managers get to their meetings on time, understand the reason for the meeting and are prepared for it. I colour code and categorise everything from birthdays, client meetings, 1-2-1s with colleagues, reading and email time, holding meetings and even lunch.

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Avoid Conference Call Catastrophes

The Office Professionals Place

Give attendees "conference call house rules" for example, if they need to mute themselves, inform them of how to do so. Always start on time and do your best to end on time by following the agenda and "table" topics that require more discussion. This makes it easy for minutes to be properly documented and promotes meeting order.

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Professional. Administrative Professional.

Office Dynamics

He cited an example where someone worked month on, month off as a sea-going launderer, earning $400,000 annually. After a full day of managing an agenda, his comment caught me completely off guard. He commented on the financial impact of his move there, saying the minimum hourly wage was $20. Everything cost so much.

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More minute taking tips

Practically Perfect PA

I have often sent a section of the draft minutes to the person who was reporting on that particular agenda item to review and make any changes before I sent the draft on to the chairman. Here are a few examples: The paper / report was noted. They are busy people, but they want to get the minutes right as well. Be prepared.

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Calendar Clarity

Laughing all the Way to Work

You can add the agenda to the meeting request by attaching it. For example if he is travelling to Vienna I will start a meeting request for each part of the journey and categorize it as Red. To add an attachment, click on the Insert tab and choose Attach File or Attach Item.

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How We Use Slack

Productivityist

I’ve only sent a handful of emails to the Productivityist team over the last year. Slack allows us to focus on using email for other areas of our work. For example, Productivityist Blog Editor Jim Woods and I almost exclusively use private messaging when discussing posts that are being worked on. Training Documentation.

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