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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. Yet, if you’ve never written meeting minutes before, it may seem like an intimidating process.

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How to take better notes with Speed Writing

BMT Office Administration

Some specific uses of speed writing include: When taking meeting minutes at a staff or board meeting. Documenting quotes and information during an interview. How to Get Started With Speed Writing. Here’s how to build your speed writing skills so that you can save time and take better notes: 1.

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NEW! OneNote 2016 Training Series

All Things Admin

Whether it’s creating effective systems for minute taking, follow-up on action items, travel planning, procedures documentation, or developing communication systems that are easy for your executives to scan for information, organization is a vital skill for success-minded admins. Sharing notebooks. Using search effectively.

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Artificial Intelligence at Work: How Office Professionals Can Build A.I. Skills for the Future

Eat Your Career

You have to learn how to leverage the software fully and figure out how to implement it into your day-to-day workflow. Ask other office professionals what systems they’re using and how they’re using them. I’ve also been surprised to hear people share how they use A.I. You’re likely to be surprised!

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10 E-mail Etiquette Pet Peeves and How to Handle Them

Office Dynamics

It also resulted in even more suggestions on how to improve online communication. Here’s another sampling of readers’ complaints – and how you can prevent or rectify matters. Microsoft is still looking into how to correct the problem in Outlook 2010. Bonus fix: Use a SharePoint* meeting site or shared drive for attachments.

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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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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.©