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It Takes Courage: Building Administrative Support Teams

Office Dynamics

Previously I had worked for much smaller companies with employees in the hundreds at the maximum, not thousands. We created an internal website to post meeting minutes, opportunities to become involved in the organization, information on off-site locations for meetings and events, catering information, and much more.

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How to take meeting minutes like a professional

BMT Office Administration

Meeting minutes are a staple of all Board meetings, and many internal company meetings, as they serve as an official written record of a meeting to aid in future decision-making and fill in employees who couldn’t attend. What are meeting minutes for? For future reference.

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5 Things Every Meeting Management Guru Does

Melissa Peoples

Start using these tips, and you will be your company's Meeting Management Guru in no time! Benchmarking is vital so you can understand best practices and the tools that make managing meetings easy, efficient, and productive. And of course, you received it 1 hour before the meeting begins.

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Mentoring a Young Executive - Jodith Allen

Office Dynamics

We know how to set and monitor a department budget, take meeting minutes, research topics and write reports, and that’s just for starters. We can monitor industry publications for items of importance, give feedback on personnel matters, monitor social media for company mentions, and update the department website.

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A Meeting With Me

Productivityist

I decided that a 30 minute meeting with myself every week would work wonders for me. I’d create an agenda and run my meeting with that agenda in mind. I’d take notes and assemble meetings minutes from those notes. I simply had an agenda and created minutes afterward. I even began to have work meetings again.

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Playing nice in the sandbox

Laughing all the Way to Work

Some people dont play well in a team and can be like that link in the chain that keeps skipping. What can you do if you are part of a team that is not playing well together? Are you doing your part and contributing to the goals of the team or are you getting bogged down with situations? Good team play can be contagious.

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When taking initiative isn't the best thing.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I like working with someone who has initiative, wants to do a good job and is keen to contribute to the team, but is there a time when initiative is not a good thing? EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct. Taking Effective Meeting Minutes ► August (3) Pass it on. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.