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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Many believe that the terms “procedures” and “systems” are interchangeable, but that’s not exactly true. A system contains all the information you need to handle the accounting functions for your job. Procedures, forms, and checklists combine to create systems for how you get things done efficiently. Systems have many benefits.

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6 Types of Meetings and How to Use Them Successfully

Jen Lawrence

The agenda format relies heavily on the team’s style and size. A few quick guidelines to ensure your meetings are effective: Map your meetings on a calendar and schedule them well in advance. Have an agenda. Whether an itemized agenda or a framework to guide the conversation, have a structure in place.

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Executive Assistants: Starting With a New Client? Our Tips for Success

Worxbee

To get the most from this meeting, go into it with a planned agenda. An agenda helps to ensure that nothing important is missed during your launch call. In addition to usernames, passwords, email, and calendars, you’ll also need to know who to talk to or where to go if you have any system issues. Final thoughts.

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Technology to help with minute taking

Practically Perfect PA

Again it is a digital notebook but it also has an automated To-Do organiser which syncs with calendars and address books. Through Meeting Gold meetings can be created, sent to the participant’s calendars, agendas can be created and changed prior to the meeting. This is a quick and easy online minute taking system.

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4 Top Project Management Tools

Office Organization Success

Google Calendars. Good ole’ Google calendars are a really quick and simple project management tool. You can overlay your calendars with one another so you can see if there are any conflicts or gaps with your planning. And similarly you can just view one calendar at a time. Actually it’s the one I use myself!

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Make No Mistakes With Meeting Request Attachments in Outlook 2007

Professional Assistant Blog

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#.

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A self-management checklist

Ian's Messy Desk

You can use a journal, a calendar, a graph or any other form that works for you. Make sure you track both your successes and failures so you can refine your systems. Keep your goals on someone else’s agenda. Review and rework your system. Track your progress. Write it down. Set rewards or penalties. Have a work buddy.