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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Determine the agenda and who is presenting. Send out the meeting invitation to all participants. Determine catering needs for the meeting. Order food for the meeting. Create the meeting agenda for the department head’s approval. Gather all materials for the agenda and participant materials.

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Whose meeting is it anyway?

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 May, 2010 Whose meeting is it anyway? Do you ever get a meeting request and an agenda has not been provided, or if it is a teleconference the call-in details have not been given or the boardroom hasnt been booked for an internal meeting? Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Meeting preparation.

Laughing all the Way to Work

This does increase the preparation time, but on the day of the meeting it goes very smoothly with no stress. To prepare a minute template simply use your agenda and put it in minute format. Under each agenda heading you can then record the appropriate information when you are in the meeting.

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Preparing your boss for meetings away from the office or at home

Laughing all the Way to Work

State the purpose of the meeting in the calendar appointment as well as who will be at the meeting (i.e. Meeting with Mr. Brown and Ms. Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc. Where is the meeting being held?

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Pass it on.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I wrote an article called We Dont Know What We Dont Know. I think the first reason is what I put in my original article. I also drag items from my Inbox if someone sends me an email to advise they will be sending an agenda or some other item by a certain date. .© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 13 August, 2010 Pass it on.

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Are you prepared?

Laughing all the Way to Work

The night before I go to a Board meeting, I review all my templates, agendas, binder, attendance sheets and everything I am going to need or might need. Each meeting has some differences, but usually the basics are the same so your checklist can be pre-populated with those things so you can re-use it for each meeting.

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Atlanta, Georgia: The City that Smiles

Laughing all the Way to Work

Click on that and you will find a wealth of templates from a resume, cover letter, minutes, agenda and many others. I am not responsible for the content on any sites I have linked to as a resource or linked to in my articles. Once you log on click on the tab Productivity and you will see on the right Templates.