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Ask the Admin: Meeting Minutes Retention

Administrative Arts

You don’t indicate if you are talking about Board minutes or membership meeting minutes. According to every reference I can find for document retention, Board minutes should be kept permanently. I didn’t find any specific references to membership meeting minutes in any of the research I’ve done.

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Routine Procedure – Friday

Practically Perfect PA

Before I start my work, I help get a few bits sorted for the Directors before they head into the meeting. Make a start looking through my emails and following the procedure I set out in my previous blog. Most of the jobs are small but there are a lot of them, including booking rooms, answering email queries and setting up meetings.

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Routine Procedure – Thursday

Practically Perfect PA

Spend time reading through some of the emails I’ve filed over the last week, including LinkedIn updates and other networking emails. This takes 15 minutes of me running from one floor to the next until I manage to find him. Walking back to my desk one of my directors asks me to scan some documents for him.

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Anyone can be an Administrative Assistant, right?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct.

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Frustration Busters!

Laughing all the Way to Work

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Recently I was working with someone on an Excel document.

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When you need it later: The Bring-Forward System

Laughing all the Way to Work

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Lets enjoy our day together.© Where can I put this paper? Thats great!

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Routine Procedure – Monday

Practically Perfect PA

This week I will be trying to follow my ideal routine, as set out in last week’s blog , to maximise my productivity at work. 1125 – One of the Directors has popped out of the meeting to ask me to scan a 40 page document without removing the binder for another colleague in the meeting. This takes 10 minutes.

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