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The Art of Minute Taking

Laughing all the Way to Work

If the Chair says this is not for the minutes you need to take your hands off the keyboard so the meeting participants know it is not being recorded. For example if they are discussing staff or executive salaries they will ask staff to leave. A table format is the easiest form to take minutes at an operational meeting.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

Success

Among the initiatives that emerged from the exercise was a group formed to “[identify] and [support] sales and marketing strategies” that could be utilized to reach women- and minority-owned businesses. Plus, he earned an annual salary roughly $4,000 higher than Jennifer’s for the same work in an entry-level lab position.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Besides, as I was told when I was looking at the dismal entry-level salaries being offered when I graduated, and my Dad was wondering aloud why he had paid $$$ for a degree that wouldn’t get me much more than minimum wage (I wanted to go into book publishing, go figure), I shared the quote I got from the university’s job office.

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