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Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail – Meeting Planning Success

Office Dynamics

Once you have identified your goals and objectives and key messages, you’ll be in a better position to determine who to invite to the meeting, how many people you’re talking about, how high up or down the chain of command do you go. My Overall Meeting Action Plan template is a great tool to help you document this all out.

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Are you getting attendees to your meetings?

Practically Perfect PA

Considering how many meetings assistants are asked to organise it is important that we manage our meetings effectively and we have everyone there that is supposed to be there. Here are a few tips which will help you get attendees to your meetings. Plan the meeting in advance. Use a meeting productivity tool.

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More OneNote Must-Knows: History, Search, and Template Creation

All Things Admin

Create a Template When I train people on creating office procedures, I start by encouraging them to use a template so that they have a standardized tool to help them keep their procedures consistent from page to page whether they are typed or handwritten. Click on Page Templates at the bottom of that window.

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4 Fresh Meeting Trends and Where to Find Them

Office Dynamics

In the midst of our constantly-changing culture and ever-more-digital world, the meeting and events industry is the next realm to be updated. Dull, dusty meeting rooms are being replaced and refreshed by smart trends that are making meetings more productive and more enjoyable. budding meeting industry trends.

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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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Guest Blog by Alexis Bonari: 10 Easy Ways to Check and Maximize.

Laughing all the Way to Work

It automatically updates when I use an office product, and I can manually enter stop/start times for phone calls, meetings, face to faces, etc. Really great tool for analyzing your productivity. I run the outlook journal and it logs the time I spend with a given task. August 16, 2010 Patricia Robb said.

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Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgate, 2010 Stevie.

Laughing all the Way to Work

It was an exciting night for HPTI as Jonathan Goodnight was also awarded Technical Professional of the Year and they were finalists in ten other categories, including Best Recognition Event, Best Corporate Communicator, Best Product Developer and Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year. Morgan Chase & Co.

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