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Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail – Meeting Planning Success

Office Dynamics

Once you have identified your goals and objectives and key messages, you’ll be in a better position to determine who to invite to the meeting, how many people you’re talking about, how high up or down the chain of command do you go. My Overall Meeting Action Plan template is a great tool to help you document this all out.

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What is a Meeting Planner Exactly?

Office Dynamics

Develop the best format for the “ Overall Meeting Action Plan ” and just do it. There is a template for this document in my book by the way.). You should send out the meeting notes along with a draft of what your understanding of the “PLAN ” is and ask for feedback. Get your copy today!

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Are you getting attendees to your meetings?

Practically Perfect PA

So you have organised a meeting, it has been in everyone’s diaries for ages, you’ve booked a room and ordered tea and coffee. You get to the meeting room only to find a handful of attendees have arrived, some turn up late, others couldn’t find the room and one person just didn’t bother turning up.

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Different spellings: British, Canadian and American

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 27 February, 2009 Different spellings: British, Canadian and American I was proofing a document the other day, but since Ive been reading documents from the United States and Canada, I couldnt remember if behaviorial was the American or the Canadian spelling. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Repeating Headers and Footers while in Sections

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 26 October, 2008 Repeating Headers and Footers while in Sections Someone was asking on another site how to repeat a footer for just one section in a document, i.e. a table. She said it would be the same instructions for a table or a document in Word. These are instructions for Word 2003. "I

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Frustration Busters!

Laughing all the Way to Work

Recently I was working with someone on an Excel document. They sent an e-mail wondering if any of the assistants could help them export a document from Excel to Word. Unlike Word you will only see the header repeated when you do a print preview or print the document. To automatically insert a new row at the end of a table.

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We live in an Acronym Happy World.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Coming from a legal background, we were always taught if you are using an acronym or initialism in writing, on the first use you should spell it out and then put the acronym in brackets, which makes a lot of sense and saves a lot of head scratching and searching the document to figure out what the person is referring to. Excellent material!