All Things Admin
JUNE 23, 2021
Procedures, forms, and checklists combine to create systems for how you get things done efficiently. Let’s use meeting and event planning as our example, and focus on creating a system for planning monthly staff meetings. When you’re planning a staff meeting, what do you do and in what order?
Laughing all the Way to Work
JULY 15, 2008
I keep a meeting scheduling form at my desk. I know exactly where I am at with the meeting planning just by looking at the form. Calendars - The new person will be starting with a fresh calendar. Take anything off your calendar and write it down for them so they can transfer it to their calendar.
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Laughing all the Way to Work
DECEMBER 12, 2009
Put it in a folder for your boss’s signature in completed form, i.e. envelope clipped to letter and attachments. If you are sending the letter by regular mail, courier or registered mail, make sure you have the proper postage, courier slips or forms filled out. I usually put a sticky note on it for that as well.
Laughing all the Way to Work
DECEMBER 19, 2009
When I receive an initial request for a meeting, I use a meeting form and write down the information I need: who is requesting the meeting, what is the purpose of the meeting, where it will be held and a phone number or an e-mail address and dates that are available. Minute taking made easier. Dealing in real time.
Laughing all the Way to Work
MARCH 15, 2009
If there are forms that need to filled in and it has a due date in June, I put those forms in the June folder with a bf date on it for a week before it is due. I then put the items in a two-fold file folder with his calendar printed out on the one side and the items he will need for the day on the other side.
Laughing all the Way to Work
NOVEMBER 7, 2009
If you have a few ideas or requests in your e-mail, it is best to set it out in point form so the person does not have to dig for it. Robbs drivers license; - A completed application form; and - a cheque or money order in the amount of $10 made out to the Ministry of Heath." Point being. Minute taking made easier. Dealing in real time.
Laughing all the Way to Work
FEBRUARY 22, 2009
For my readers from other countries, you will note there is a section for foreign dignitaries and if you click on that it will give you the proper form to address just about anyone in the world. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service?
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