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Annotated Agenda

Laughing all the Way to Work

It is very useful to use an annotated agenda. For those who have never used one, it is simply an agenda with notes on it. For the agenda that I send to the meeting participants, I annotate it to let them know why an item is on the agenda or if there are any attachments. Adoption of Agenda (Motion Required) 2.

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Want To Delegate Better? Try a Total Responsibility Transfer

Success

Total responsibility transfer refers to the concept that if someone is going to take over a task, they must take over all of the parts of it. Avoid falling prey to rigid beliefs or agendas. Oster uses the concept of meal planning to elaborate on this term that can apply in the boardroom and the laundry room alike. “If

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How to Track Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to Maintain Professional Certifications

Eat Your Career

For example, PACE is a certification for administrative professionals provided by ASAP. For example, the content of the learning needs to be directly related to the body of knowledge used for the certification and cannot be a sales-oriented presentation. For example, I have the PMP certification.

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Keeping Virtual Teams Focused In The Pandemic Era

BioTeams

So how do you stay focused for example in a Zoom meeting where, in aggregate: There are many participants, some with virtual backgrounds, fancy workstations with a tonne of books (or even those dialling in wearing their pyjamas). The term ‘sterile cockpit’ is relevant here for virtual meetings and can be borrowed to foster focus.

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How to take better notes with Speed Writing

BMT Office Administration

It also gives you something to reference later if you need to study the information, send out meeting notes, or verify the instructions that you were given. 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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So you’ve been asked to organise an event… now what?

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve written a few blogs on this subject in the past and I will put a link at the bottom so that you can refer back, however in this blog I want to talk about how you add value at the beginning of the event organisation process. The agenda. A pre-event agenda should look something like this: What is the purpose of the event?

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Acknowledge the Elephant in the Room

The Office Professionals Place

This weeks agenda has the same items as last weeks and again nothing is resolved. Dont make references to people. Sunday, April 11, 2010 Acknowledge the Elephant in the Room Here we go again another Monday morning meeting. It is a difficult meeting to attend because it is a time waster - unproductive and boring.

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