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8 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings

Success

Set an agenda and stick to it. Have a time limit (preferably no more than an hour) and stick to it, even if you don’t discuss all agenda items. Smith is a disciple of agile project management, a standard among software development firms. Watch the clock. One major time-waster is waiting for people to arrive.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Every office needs different systems to run smoothly, but most administrative professionals will require most or all of the systems in this core group: Time and task management. Project management. Determine the agenda and who is presenting. Reserve the conference room. Meeting Agenda. Meeting Agenda.

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Simplify Daily Tasks with Technology

Office Dynamics

One of my favorite aspects of attending a professional development conference is the opportunity to connect with other administrative professionals to share processes, tips, best practices and learn how they simplify daily tasks with technology. It is an impressive team project management tool. Another person used Sli.do

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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

You might be using a new phone system or dealing with new project management software. The process for ordering office supplies and setting up the conference room for meetings was different. email, instant messaging, project management tools). showcasing how each tool facilitates team collaboration.

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

Eat Your Career

I can earn them for participating in conferences and traditional training events, whether in person or virtually, but I can also earn them for the training I develop and deliver myself, as a trainer on this topic. As long as these things pertain to topics relevant to project management, they can qualify within specified limits.

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Keeping Virtual Teams Focused In The Pandemic Era

BioTeams

Personally, I never logged into Zoom prior to the global pandemic as my user adoption trajectory favours platforms that unify productivity apps within collaboration, communication and project management tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams and JIRA CORE. You can say that Zoom has how replaced the conference table everywhere.

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

If it is a project management position, prepare a project status review presentation or the like…you get the idea. And of course you don’t want to completely control the meeting, or otherwise disregard the other person’s agenda.