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Skills required to be a good minute taker

Practically Perfect PA

Not everyone can be a good minute taker – it’s a definite skill and quite often an art, hence the name of my course, The Art of Minute Taking. There are definite skills required to be a good minute taker and I’ve listed some of them below: Listening. Learn as much as you can about the topic. Good command of the written language.

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Is shorthand still a relevant skill for a minute taker?

Practically Perfect PA

Many, many years ago, without a doubt, secretaries went to secretarial school to learn how to type and take dictation. It was a very handy skill to have! … Certainly in my country (New Zealand) there are very few places you can now go to physically to learn shorthand. Shorthand was a compulsory subject and a necessity.

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Finding a Voice in the Future of Work

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Beats were assigned based on skill set—something typically determined by a reporter’s existing portfolio. For me, an introverted homeschooled kid without high school paper experience, it meant whatever was left: the health and safety beat. Then again when I landed a gig with this very magazine in 2015 as an assistant editor.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

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These students can choose between courses that teach both core soft skills, such as “ communications ” or “community and culture,” and hard technical skills. They yearned for more and they knew they had the skill set to accomplish more. Despite their expertise in technology, employment options were limited.

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Is Flex The Future?

Allwork

Community is an elusive and special skill that sets coworking apart. If you want to learn more about the community, you have to go tour some coworking spaces in your area. That crisis is a mental health crisis. Also from our research in 2015 with Steve King of Emergent Research: 89% of coworkers reported being happier.

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Emotional Intelligence Is Crucial to Good Leadership—Here’s Why

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But unlike innate, fixed characteristics, such as your IQ, EQ is a flexible skill that you can improve. enumerates the specific components of emotional intelligence as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. This is the “social skill” component of emotional intelligence. They’re humble.

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What Happy, Successful, Optimistic People Know About Life

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The most important lesson I’ve learned from living on this planet is what any happy, successful, optimistic person knows about life. A power shift in focus is a skill that nourishes your soul and significantly changes how you view life. This article was published in September 2015 and has been updated.

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