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How to Assert Your Power in Difficult Situations

Success

In your first three months, you discover countless ways to improve the business : better project management tools, ways to streamline everyone’s workflow and straightforward meeting agendas. Knowingly or unknowingly, you’re asserting your power through the act of helping others. We shouldn’t go about this process alone.

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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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Tips on good minute taking

Practically Perfect PA

As you can imagine I got quite good at bashing out minutes without much thought behind them but no matter how easy I found writing the minutes the process still took forever. Unless it is relevant to the key agenda points leave this dialogue out of the minutes. The date, time and location of the meeting. The attendees. The apologies.

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Tips on good minute taking

Practically Perfect PA

As you can imagine I got quite good at bashing out minutes without much thought behind them but no matter how easy I found writing the minutes the process still took forever. Unless it is relevant to the key agenda points leave this dialogue out of the minutes. The date, time and location of the meeting. The attendees. The apologies.

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NEWS RELEASE: Star Achievement Series Has Gone Public

Office Dynamics

Pre-course work will be assigned to prepare the student thus engaging them in the learning process before they arrive. Course Agenda. Challenge and improve current processes that no longer work. Equally important is the ability to communicate your needs assertively. Communicate their needs assertively.

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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.