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Skills required to be a good minute taker

Practically Perfect PA

Assertiveness. 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. Check out my post here for tips on how to listen for the message.

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NEWS RELEASE: Star Achievement Series Has Gone Public

Office Dynamics

Course Agenda. Yet they are the foundation upon which our work performance, productivity, relationships and health are built. Equally important is the ability to communicate your needs assertively. There is a fine line between being assertive and being perceived as aggressive. Communicate their needs assertively.

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Bonnie’s Workplace 2021 Wish List

Bonnie Low Kramen

In fact, the most effective assertiveness happens calmly, factually, and directly. Find the people who have no other agenda besides your success. I wish for your excellent mental & physical health – Some people are not as strong as others to withstand an onslaught of life’s challenges. I wish that we will close the wage gap.

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A Test of Your Professionalism: Will You Pass?

The Office Professionals Place

Listen with empathy not sympathy and be assertive in your response. 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. Seek answers.