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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

If you don’t have procedures in place, one approach to onboarding involves having the new hire document the procedures as they learn. This method serves a dual purpose: it ensures that your procedures are up-to-date and allows the new employee to reinforce their learning through the act of documentation.

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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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3 Keys to Making This Your Best Week Ever

Office Dynamics

Most administrative professionals are intimately familiar with “emergency” business situations and sky-high stress—their own, as well as the stress that practically radiates off of others. If you’re not careful, the day-to-day craziness of modern work life can take a serious toll on your mental, physical and emotional health.

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Bonnie’s Workplace 2021 Wish List

Bonnie Low Kramen

This may be the perfect time to start playing that instrument, take up a new hobby, learn another language, or write that poem. In a team meeting, they were asked about what they learned about leadership from the COS. Find the people who have no other agenda besides your success. I wish that you feel free. Let the haters go.

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A Test of Your Professionalism: Will You Pass?

The Office Professionals Place

If you become timid when it comes to speaking in a group meeting, provided you know what the agenda items are prior to the meeting, put them in writing in proposal form and give them to the Chair before the meeting or slide them to him during the meeting. So, how do you maintain a cordial working relationship with this ‘thought thief?’

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NEWS RELEASE: Star Achievement Series Has Gone Public

Office Dynamics

Taught by Joan Burge , creator and master trainer of the Star Achievement Series® with more than 39 years of administrative expertise and learning and development. Pre-course work will be assigned to prepare the student thus engaging them in the learning process before they arrive. Course Agenda. Call 1-800-STAR-139.

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Do Bad Bosses Breed Bad Bosses?

The Office Professionals Place

How to deal with it: If you keep your bosses calendar, you can ask him ahead of time if he needs anything in particular for the meeting or if you know the agenda you can suggest information your boss can take to the meeting and have it prepared.

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