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Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail – Meeting Planning Success

Office Dynamics

How should each meeting room be set? What type of audio-visual equipment, staging, and production will each room require? Extra time for pre and post set up and tear down (especially true for large-scale stage productions)? It does and it will unless you first have a PLAN and a PROCESS in place to help you.

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What is a Meeting Planner Exactly?

Office Dynamics

Meeting planners work well independently or as a team member. They look for ways to improve the end product and service. They learn through doing, through the professional organizations they belong to, and through outside studies such as Certified Meeting Professional and Certified Meeting Manager programs. .

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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. To achieve your best results, you would schedule meetings or appointments for your executive using both sides of the brain. Can you really fit in another meeting on Wednesday? Are you being practical about meeting scheduling?

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. This is not smart. This is not smart. Every career has certain core fundamental skills. They are the foundation on which everything else is built.

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Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

Office Dynamics

Meeting planning is a cognitive task. You must think about your manager’s workload, other commitments, travel, upcoming meetings, past meetings, previous week’s schedule. Level of meetings: high-level meeting with high-level prep; low-level meetings with minor preparation time? COGNITIVE task!

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Multigenerational Communication & Cross-mentorship

Office Dynamics

The diverse team has combined organizational and time management skills, event and meeting planning, business savvy, continued professional development drive and so much more to ensure success and positive outcomes. Time to read and share professional blogs, articles, books, and webinars (most are free!). Knowledge is power.

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More OneNote Must-Knows: History, Search, and Template Creation

All Things Admin

procedures, meeting minutes, travel itinerary, meeting planning, project plans) On the INSERT ribbon, click on Page Templates. Create a page in OneNote or insert a file from Word that you want to use as your standard template for various needs throughout the notebook. Click on Page Templates at the bottom of that window.