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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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How You Can Combat Collaboration Overload to Improve Company Performance—and Your Own

Success

A 2016 Harvard Business Review article found that over the past two decades, time spent by leadership and employees in collaborative activities has grown by more than 50%. If you’re the only one who knows how to handle a task, consider helping other team members to expand their skill sets.

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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. Identify high priority issues and bring them to attention and insert agenda into calendar. We had 450 assistants from 11 countries attend. Establish equality.

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12 documentaries and series that will give you an up-close look at climate change — and some solutions

Ideas.Ted

Exquisite beauty and terrible loss are threaded throughout Chasing Coral , the 2017 film that captured long stretches of coral bleaching in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in 2016. The documentary follows a highly skilled team of filmmakers on a mission to document the mostly hidden impact of climate change.

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