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

Allwork

Amy Casciotti: As discussed, turning on the camera generally helps keep you engaged as well as speaking up when questions are posed or when you have questions. Another way to stay engaged is the oft-forgotten follow-up after a meeting. Establishing the ground rules for call culture, including typical etiquette and protocols, can help.

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7 Golden Rules for Successful Virtual Meetings

Worxbee

Any additional meetings are taking up time that could otherwise be spent on work, so limiting your meetings can be the first “golden rule” to get success out of them. #2. 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.

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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.). They are slow to respond/follow up," with their face in a scrunched up expression. She's really nice.

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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. She also suggested being prepared when you go to the party.

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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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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. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#.

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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? ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" Lets enjoy our day together.©

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