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Skills required to be a good minute taker

Practically Perfect PA

Ensure you turn up to the meeting having read the agenda, any background papers, the minutes of the previous meeting and with all the tools you need to take the minutes whether that be pen, highlighter, paper, recording device, laptop or iPad. Learn as much as you can about the topic. Always take an extra pen. Knowledge of the subject.

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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

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. If you are your executive’s business partner you need to learn and hear as much as you can about the business and what is going on with their work, team and project.