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Want To Delegate Better? Try a Total Responsibility Transfer

Success

Delegating is a bit of an art form, one that takes practice and persistence, boundaries and motivation. Avoid falling prey to rigid beliefs or agendas. She shares an example of this when she delegated to a team member who ended up having “second thoughts about moving forward” due to a challenge with a stakeholder.

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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. Procedures, forms, and checklists combine to create systems for how you get things done efficiently. Review calendars and compile date and time options. Meeting Agenda.

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How to take meeting minutes like a professional

BMT Office Administration

Examples include companies that don’t have a Board Secretary or instances where the Secretary cannot attend. Instead, you’ll be able to easily provide effective meeting minutes , all while not missing a beat of the meeting agenda. When taken in that context, the term’s true meaning starts to take form.

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How to take better notes with Speed Writing

BMT Office Administration

Speed writing is a form of shorthand, but it’s quite a different system than the traditional shorthand systems. Both forms of shorthand are highly efficient. For example, BakerWrite is a speed writing system that was created by Heather Baker in 2004. For example, in speed writing to, two, or too would simply be written as “2”.

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

When you sit in a meeting for hours on end, ears pricked up, needing to listen and capture every word, the last thing you want to be doing is jumping around the page, creating headings and subheadings against the agenda items on the fly, or jumping from one agenda item to the next.

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A self-management checklist

Ian's Messy Desk

You can use a journal, a calendar, a graph or any other form that works for you. You could, for example, make a donation to a food bank every time your weight went up instead of down. Keep your goals on someone else’s agenda. Review with your buddy. Have your buddy do more than review accomplishment. Write it down.

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Reach Your Goals With a Self-Management Checklist

Ian's Messy Desk

You can use a journal, a calendar, a graph or any other form that works for you. You could, for example, make a donation to a food bank every time your weight went up instead of down. Keep your goals on someone else’s agenda. Review with your buddy. Have your buddy do more than review accomplishment. Write it down.

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