Practically Perfect PA

MAY 25, 2017

Over the year’s I have written quite a few blog posts about minute taking which you can find below, but today I thought I would share with you a very simple minute taking template that you can use for every set of minutes you write. Love them or hate them – minute taking is never going to go away! The attendees. The apologies.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 14, 2014

Even if saving the planet is not as high on your agenda as keeping your business running on a day-to-day basis, going green can have a number of measurable benefits. Recycling within the office can reduce the costs of… Read the full article here: How to make for a greener office environment on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 5, 2017

Getting people to stick to the rules is a whole other blog post, but at least have the fundamentals in place is a good start. Every meeting must have an agenda . Make sure every meeting has an agenda, it can be very simple for example: Date, time, location. Agenda / meeting’s purpose. Supporting papers.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

When I was an assistant 40 years ago we complained about not getting time with our executives; we complained about not getting enough information from our managers; we complained about not getting support for training. Revolutionary ways to gain true manager support for your ongoing professional development.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 23, 2019

Trello – Project and task management that is shareable and used to coordinate work projects, even personal planning, and projects. One person I spoke with said they create a poll before any meeting is coordinated and use the data to create an agenda to stay focused on main topics. It is an impressive team project management tool.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 10, 2012

As a result, I received an overwhelming amount of questions from people asking me what CRM (Customer/Client Relationship Management) tool I use and how to pick one.   3 - List Management/Tagging. tags: client, female business owner, coach, speaker, loves dogs, attended X event, connected on Twitter, comments on my blog).

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 12, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap How to Manage Time Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on May 12, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Three rules for effective time management : 1) Don’t Create Impossible Situations.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 10, 2019

In addition to great webinars, articles, and blog posts one of the best resources is always communicating with one another. She obviously researched the company’s desired future growth and asked management what their goals were, she then proactively created objectives to develop ways to support her team and company.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 11, 2017

I find that gossip usually focuses on other people’s intentions, motives, hidden agendas, or secret activities. This blog is part of our 2017 Blog-A-Thon. Please leave a comment or share the blog for your chance to win one of our amazing giveaways! The more blogs you comment on and share, the more chances you have to win.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Thank you so much and I intend to come back to your blog often.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 4, 2013

I’ve written a few blogs on this subject in the past and I will put a link at the bottom so that you can refer back, however in this blog I want to talk about how you add value at the beginning of the event organisation process. The agenda. Similar to the outcomes, what does your manager want to gain from this event?

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Virtual Moxie

APRIL 17, 2023

Management set up a daily, hour-long, 9a meeting for his team via their internal collaboration platform. I also think most books deserve to be blog posts, but that’s a topic for another day. We work at the meetings, we have a straightforward agenda, and we get in and get out as quickly as we can. It’s good for us twice a year.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 5, 2010

The Major Meltdown in Time Management - Have You Been Hit? » Major Meltdown in Time Management - Tips to Avoid it Happening To You Productivity Fact: You can be busy all day and still have gotten nothing done. .    Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Timing is everything. ~

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 23, 2015

Proactively managing your own self-care is a skill all modern administrative professionals must learn in order to deal with the challenging situations (and people!) Why taking time for yourself is an essential part of your proactive stress management plan, and how to do that even when you’re already time crunched. How to manage stress.

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The Office Professionals Place

APRIL 29, 2010

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. The larger the conference call, the more difficult it will be to manage. Distribute the agenda/handouts prior to the meeting.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2011

In the day-to-day running of a modern business, IT is now omnipresent, so it makes sense that managing, controlling and protecting a company’s software assets is also high on the agenda. Software Asset Management is one way to do this, and most businesses should seriously consider the implementation…

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 16, 2010

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Lets enjoy our day together.© Whose responsibility is it anyway?

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 27, 2015

With Personal Assistants wanting to take on more responsibility this will free up time for management and avoid unnecessary duplication in teams. Knowledge sharing will cut down time for each PA and Manager to research information. Get buy in and support from executive level with Managers fully supporting their Assistants membership.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

So much so that I asked Brian and Joan if I could write a blog post about my experience and share some photos from the event. So many of you came up and introduced yourselves and said, “Hey you’re the guy I get all the emails from” I had to slip it into this blog. It was so fun and so awesome to finally get to meet all of you.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 17, 2014

A few years ago I wrote a blog post about minute taking which has proven to be really popular so I thought I would write a follow-up post with 10 more minute taking tips. The Committee members discussed the item and concluded… A decision was delayed until the next meeting (followed by an action to add this to the next agenda).

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Thank you so much and I intend to come back to your blog often.

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Practically Perfect PA

AUGUST 1, 2014

Back in May I wrote a blog post on improving your relationship with your boss. If it helps, set an agenda for each meeting so that you both know exactly what needs to be achieved by the end of each meeting. At the time I wrote that the most important relationship assistants have at work is with their Executive.

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Productivity Bits

JULY 18, 2011

We have a lot on our agenda, and we carry an oversized to do list that limits our ability to use strategy and plan our day to achieve our goals. Another interesting fact is that really efficient people don’t even manage their tasks; they use methods and tools to do that for them. So, why not manage all your work-related tasks that way?

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The Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

WinWeb – Your Office Online Simply the best way to manage your small business! Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. You want a little more.

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Loosely Speaking

JUNE 7, 2009

Strategies for managing those feelings include volunteering, participating in face-to-face networking, and hosting gatherings of one’s peers. Love to hear from you about your thoughts on an agenda for a VA retreat, or any similar event you’ve hosted for peers. Have you hosted such a gathering? Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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Jen Lawrence

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While you may not be able to change the circumstances around the core of the work guilt ( if you have to work, you have to work ), there are ways we can manage how we feel. Improve Your Time Management. However, let’s have an honest moment – could you be better at time management? Nothing on the agenda for the day?

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The Office Professionals Place

APRIL 11, 2010

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. This weeks agenda has the same items as last weeks and again nothing is resolved. Lets grow together! A new topic each month.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 19, 2013

In my recent blog on what I think Assistants can expect in 2013 I briefly discussed the relationship between assistants and how teamwork and support of each other will become more important this year. I thought I would go into a bit more detail and give some tips on how we can work as a team. Working as a team. Team Meetings.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 14, 2011

After a full day of managing an agenda, his comment caught me completely off guard. I wanted alignment, and I wanted to manage projects. This isn’t meant to be a ‘bash session’ about managers or authority, but rather an avenue to open up honoring the support role more fully. The other lawyers and I sat there, speechless.

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Service Untitled

JULY 15, 2009

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. My personal style is to talk to employees about what the problems and opportunities are before I talk to managers about the same thing. Went to the manager(s). In this particular situation, the manager was on board.

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The Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

WinWeb – Your Office Online Simply the best way to manage your small business! Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. You want a little more.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 12, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Take a lesson from this research the next time you have a full agenda at work the following day. Thanks for visiting! To-do list getting a little long? Do you have problems remembering all you need to do? Take the list to bed with you.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 14, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I use the meeting agenda as an index with each item as a tab number.

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The Office Professionals Place

JULY 27, 2010

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. Prior to interacting with this person, you should have an agenda or objective and seek to accomplish the goal(s). said. ???????????。

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 9, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Manage paper effectively – Barbara Hemphill, author of The Paper Tiger, offers the FAT principle for paper burden: file it, act on it, or toss it. If you’re holding a meeting, draw up an agenda and circulate it to the staff attending beforehand.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. For example, if you are holding a meeting with team members, make sure the agenda is set, action items are completed and that things don’t slip through the cracks. Thanks for visiting! What gives someone the right and the ability to lead? Comments No comments yet.

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On The Job

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, September 14, 2009 4 Ways to Make Meetings Better If you look up the term "necessary evil," youll probably find a photograph of a bunch of people in a meeting. than what is on the agenda?”

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