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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. Strive to develop these skills so you can be the best minute taker you can.

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Is shorthand still a relevant skill for a minute taker?

Practically Perfect PA

It was a very handy skill to have! … They would’ve thought that this would be a must have skill to be able to take minutes. As long as you feel confident and comfortable, I think whatever tools you use to take minutes is a personal choice. It’s a good skill to have, but the traps listed above need to be avoided.

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Getting People to Notice You: Cultivating High Self-Esteem Webinar Replay

Office Dynamics

How to comfortably and confidently showcase your value. From what I understand, no one else had anything like the portfolio to showcase their skills. Questions from your admin peers: Administrative Professional blogs, Facebook, and Linked In resources. ODI Scholarship Packet 2016. It helped me get the job!

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Inside the Peterborough PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

The confidence I gained from the recognition has led me to set up my own network, the Peterborough PA Network, from which I have had some amazing opportunities, the most recent of which is becoming a Non-Executive Director at EPAA, the Executive and Personal Assistant’s Association, which launched in January 2016. Network details….

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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

The theme for our 23rd Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence was The Revolutionary Assistant. Our conference was held in October 2016 in Las Vegas. Our team-building activity for 2016 was called Compression Planning®: From Idea to Action and Results Faster. 2 Idea: Develop confidence to not accept “one word” answers.