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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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6 Ways to Act on Your Ambition

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Building your ambition is building your enterprising skills: To consistently create new opportunities , to consistently take advantage of the opportunities you’ve created, to be aware, to face life with your eyes and ears open to the possibilities that might be just around the corner. Commit yourself to learning. Keep learning!

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How to Build a Library Worth Having

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Here’s a mindset to guide you as you begin: Your library needs to show that you’re a serious student of life, health, spirituality, culture, uniqueness, sophistication, economics, prosperity, productivity, sales, management, skills and values of all kinds. That’s what history is for: to learn the lessons of our ancestors.

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10 Habits of Ultra-Likeable Leaders

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These and other words describe leaders who are skilled in emotional intelligence. Unlike innate, fixed characteristics, such as your intelligence (IQ), EQ is a flexible skill that you can improve with effort. They learn from both and move on. In other words, they have high social awareness—a critical EQ skill.

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Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk on Designing a Space—and Life—That Makes You Happy

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Bobby Berk’s mission to democratize design This innate sense of the correlation between mental health and design has shaped Berk’s life and career. A guiding principle behind the book was that he didn’t simply want to create an expensive design book that would limit who could learn about design. “I

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Some Gen Zers Are Including Their Social Media on Resumes—Should You?

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The report adds that “candidates with no social media profile receive even lower ratings than candidates with mental health problems”—those individuals received “lower ratings by an amount equivalent to the effect of having three years on-the-job experience.” So why not capitalize on that tendency, as opposed to the 7.4