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Not All Stories Have Happy Endings—For This Entrepreneur, It Was Still Worth It

Success

In 2010, after losing her fashion design job during The Great Recession, Kristine Deer founded the activewear brand K-DEER. K-DEER was one of the first brands to make and market printed activewear in 2010 before it became an established retail department. “I Taking a leap. I had nothing to lose besides my ego,” Deer says.

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Whose meeting is it anyway?

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 May, 2010 Whose meeting is it anyway? Do you ever get a meeting request and an agenda has not been provided, or if it is a teleconference the call-in details have not been given or the boardroom hasnt been booked for an internal meeting? 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Make No Mistakes With Meeting Request Attachments in Outlook 2007

Professional Assistant Blog

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. Thanks, Richard Posted on 4 January, 2010 11:32 AM soruba Thanks for the information.

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Avoid Conference Call Catastrophes

The Office Professionals Place

Thursday, April 29, 2010 Avoid Conference Call Catastrophes Have you ever been on a conference call and couldnt get a word in because there were so many people on the call and they were talking over each other? Always start on time and do your best to end on time by following the agenda and "table" topics that require more discussion.

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Meeting preparation.

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 14 June, 2009 Meeting preparation. To prepare a minute template simply use your agenda and put it in minute format. Under each agenda heading you can then record the appropriate information when you are in the meeting. I use the meeting agenda as an index with each item as a tab number.

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Acknowledge the Elephant in the Room

The Office Professionals Place

Sunday, April 11, 2010 Acknowledge the Elephant in the Room Here we go again another Monday morning meeting. This weeks agenda has the same items as last weeks and again nothing is resolved. Lets grow together! It is a difficult meeting to attend because it is a time waster - unproductive and boring. Use a book as a bee does flowers.

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How to Hold Effective Meetings

Professional Assistant Blog

Plan out an agenda of all points that will need to be discussed. The Timekeeper would make sure each topic is covered within the amount of time mentioned on the agenda. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010 Delegate a person to be a a Facilitator, a Timekeeper and a Scribe.

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