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

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Where in-person or hybrid organizations have built-in opportunities for spontaneous, in-person engagements, a remote workforce must prioritize, and often schedule, these moments to maintain a strong culture. 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

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However often their success is left totally to chance” A series of recommendations are outlined in the article itself but the one stands out for me which is based on etiquettes and processes used in aviation. The term ‘sterile cockpit’ is relevant here for virtual meetings and can be borrowed to foster focus. 2020, May 27).

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Make No Mistakes With Meeting Request Attachments in Outlook 2007

Professional Assistant Blog

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. Trust me, people start to get irritated when this happens over and over again.

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How to Hold Effective Meetings

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise How to Hold Effective Meetings By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 07, 2007 Filed Under: Meetings , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity H ave you ever wondered why you have so many meetings to attend and most of the time, you feel that you dont have a need to be there?

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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? The person sending out the request for the meeting and asking for dates would usually be considered the meeting organizer. 23, 1 p.m.

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Who Called? Use A Phone Call Log!

Professional Assistant Blog

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 09, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity D o you find that when you receive phone calls or voice mail messages, you cant remember who called, what time they called, who they were trying to call, etc? Home About Me Advertise Who Called? Use A Phone Call Log!

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Are you prepared?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I like to be prepared and I find life just works better for me at home, work and even on the bus, when I am organized and ready for whatever is coming up. I organize my desk so everything is within easy reach and makes sense to the way I like to work. I too, love to be organized and it only makes sense to be prepared.