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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Procedures, forms, and checklists combine to create systems for how you get things done efficiently. Travel planning. Determine the agenda and who is presenting. Create the meeting agenda for the department head’s approval. Gather all materials for the agenda and participant materials. Meeting Agenda.

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Forget all the talk of Blue Monday; work is still (largely) good for us

Workplace Insight

We say ‘officially’, but like the idea of ‘Body Odour’ its common usage hides the fact that it was originally created as part of a PR campaign, in this case one for Sky’s travel channel in 2005. Officially the most depressing day of the year. To some extent, business has always been looked at as an extension of warfare.

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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

Office Dynamics

Program Content/Agenda . I wrote copy for the communication that went along with the registration form so people would know where they needed to be and when, appropriate attire, the type of weather to expect, safety and security issues they needed to be aware of and so forth. .

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How to Successfully Run Virtual Events

Worxbee

There are several advantages for companies running virtual events, including that they get more reach and can include people who might otherwise not have been able to travel. To ensure that the event is kept interesting and that the audience remains engaged, you’ve got to have a clear agenda throughout.

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Professional. Administrative Professional.

Office Dynamics

After a full day of managing an agenda, his comment caught me completely off guard. He cited an example where someone worked month on, month off as a sea-going launderer, earning $400,000 annually. The guy seated across from me turned to me, saying, “Nancy, you might want to look into that.”. The other lawyers and I sat there, speechless.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

As admins, we’re always trying to organize all the pieces and parts of our professional lives – from workspaces to meetings to travel plans. Forms and Checklists. Course agendas and certificates from continuing education. And we have to keep our executives organized, too. Protect Your Admin Career. It can include your: Resume.

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Obama Adviser Larry Summers Wrong on Tar Sands | The Harvard Crimson

Denise Aday

People are finally realizing that society cannot continue to extract new forms of fossil fuels if they care at all about future generations on this planet. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

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