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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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Say Goodbye To Calendar Tetris And Say Hello To Strategic Calendar Planning

Melissa Peoples

You are constantly slotting your days to fit in the most critical meetings and tasks — only to have them change on a dime when your executive throws you a curve ball. We want you to be a champion for your executive team, starting with calendar management. If not, it is hard to align their calendar with their goals and priorities.

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5 Things Every Meeting Management Guru Does

Melissa Peoples

Benchmarking is vital so you can understand best practices and the tools that make managing meetings easy, efficient, and productive. This is a perfect opportunity to benchmark with other assistants or team members on best practices, tools, and technology. Or the team falls down a rabbit hole. Manage the process NOT the content!"

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Playing nice in the sandbox

Laughing all the Way to Work

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets 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? Good team play can be contagious.

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When taking initiative isn't the best thing.

Laughing all the Way to Work

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets 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? Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets © Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 20 February, 2010 Minute taking made easier. On my minute template I put [insert time] at the beginning and also after the final item, just to remind myself to check the time.

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Kings and Queens of the Office

Laughing all the Way to Work

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets To work effectively, I have always found working as a team is the best working situation. Everyone helping each other and working together to achieve the goals of the organization. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.