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Annotated Agenda

Laughing all the Way to Work

In my example below you will see that I put brackets around the notes and italicize them. You will see in my example below that I use red font, but you can use any colour that stands out or highlight it in yellow. Finance Committee signed off on budget. - Mr. Roberts will be the new Co-Chair of the Finance Committee (Mr.

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On to the next task.

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I used to keep the meeting sheets in paper format, but now they are all filed electronically by the date of the meeting so is easily referred back to. On some meetings sheets I have many previous meeting sheets to refer back to. I file it by YYYY-MM-DD. This way, it always files chronologically.

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Experts Predict 2023 Will Be the Year of ‘Quiet Hiring’—Here’s What to Expect

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For example, Lim says we saw this in August 2022 when the Australian airline Qantas asked for 100 volunteers from its pool of senior executives to work as baggage handlers to combat the labor shortage. “For For every new hire, Google employs a hiring committee that consists of a panel of five or six Google employees,” they report.

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The workplace circus continues to entertain, but back in the real world…

Workplace Insight

Another tech giant unravelling in public this week was Amazon, whose executives can be seen floundering around in the face of some fairly obvious questions from a UK government committee on the subjects of workplace automation, working practices, productivity and wellbeing. Step 2: Disregard that which cannot be measured easily.

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From melting steel to “concrete cancer”, our buildings aren’t designed to withstand climate change

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Most people in the US, for example, spend about 90 percent of their time indoors. The village of Fairbourne in Wales has already been identified as a likely candidate, and a failure to act on both of these threats in the UK was highlighted in a recent report by the Climate Change Committee.

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Interview Questions and Answers for PAs, EAs and Administrators Part 2

Practically Perfect PA

In my previous blog I looked at some of the common questions interviewers ask and the answers I would give if I had an interview, the examples are personal to me but hopefully will help you think about how you structure your answers. You should refer back to your core PA/EA skills for this one. I always use the following example. “

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Five top tips for using a unique event space

Practically Perfect PA

Be it the office Christmas party, team building events, off site board meetings and committee to large scale global conferences. For example, if you take an event to ZSL London Zoo why not refer to your refreshment breaks as ‘feeding time’ Adding a little element of meeting design really will help you make the most of the space.

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