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How to Track Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to Maintain Professional Certifications

Eat Your Career

To avoid that kind of unnecessary stress, it’s important to properly manage and track your continuing education requirements. For example, PACE is a certification for administrative professionals provided by ASAP. These requirements may change, so please verify this information on the ASAP website.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Minute taking definitely isnt easy, but it doesnt have to be stressful. Below are a few tips so the task is not as daunting: Filling in the blanks I take minutes on a laptop so it is easy to make a template ahead of time which is based on the agenda. I use four columns with the headings: Item#, Discussion, Decision/Action, By when.

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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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Meetings Plus: Taking them offline

Laughing all the Way to Work

Much easier than searching in Outlook and less stressful. I tend to keep my scheduling sheets in chronological order and each morning I go through them to see if there is any action I need to take, i.e. follow up to ask for an agenda or see if I can start scheduling.

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Going Checklist Crazy

Laughing all the Way to Work

As an aside, pen and paper will suffice if I have to, but you can see that the checklist can help avoid any unnecessary stresses from happening. Another thing to put on your checklist if you are using a laptop is a memory stick. A memory stick is my back up if my laptop and I part ways. I think I feel another checklist coming on, gotta go.

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Q&A: What are some social and economic issues small business face.

The Small Business Blog

Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP. To many work is the central activity in their lives and the stresses and pressures of todays workplace are enormous, overtime, project pressure, sales targets, travel to and from the place of work, to name but a few. Benefits of Online Software for Small Business.

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Social Impact of Working From Home | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP. Dino Said on December 22nd, 2008 at 3:42 am I agree , I too work at home and I love it , no rigid dress code , no claustrophobic cubicle and no stress generating travel from home to work office. Get out from office stressful daily job and can maintain your own schedule.

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