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Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail – Meeting Planning Success

Office Dynamics

For starters, you need a design or planning team to help flush out goals and objectives and key messages. Remember goals must be specific, measurable, achievable, results-oriented and time-sensitive and begs questions such as: Why exactly are we doing this meeting? How many meeting rooms? Wait – there’s more.

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What is a Meeting Planner Exactly?

Office Dynamics

A meeting planner has the keen ability to bring the right people and resources together to create and deliver programs that best meet the strategic goals , objectives. Planners maximize time spent on the development and delivery of the meeting content to ensure it meets key objectives. Meeting planners are leaders.

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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

Office Dynamics

Not all people who plan meetings are “meeting planners,” nor do all meeting planners start out their careers as meeting planners. Not only did I set the meetings up, but I also took notes (in shorthand no less), transcribed the notes and prepared final reports for dissemination. Procurement and Legal.

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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. To achieve your best results, you would schedule meetings or appointments for your executive using both sides of the brain. Words to describe left-brain thinking are: Logic Order Structure Scientific Rules Analytical Methodical.

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Time Is Money: Get More of Both with an Executive Assistant

Worxbee

EAs support the growth of the company One of the main draws to having an EA is that they increase productivity and provide problem-solving. EAs = increased productivity Imagine this: You’re sitting in a meeting with three from your team. Fifteen minutes go by…20…30… Now it’s time for your next meeting.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Thinking Outside the Job Description Box By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 20, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing All The Way to Work: The Ultimate Secretarial Survival Blog.

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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 Are you doing your part and contributing to the goals of the team or are you getting bogged down with situations? Lets enjoy our day together.© Be sure you are not part of the problem.