Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 16, 2013

As a result, if the person who called the meeting hasn’t put out a clear agenda, or verbally told you what the purpose is, you need to contact him or her and ask. But for staff meetings, project update meetings, budget meetings, client review meetings, MOST MEETINGS… the primary purpose is communication.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc. If it is an internal meeting, has a meeting space been booked? Depending on how formal the meeting is, you may need to draft an agenda for your boss’s review and forward to meeting participants in advance of the meeting.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 13, 2010

The night before I go to a Board meeting, I review all my templates, agendas, binder, attendance sheets and everything I am going to need or might need. Every time I use a bus ticket, I keep a mental inventory so I know when I need to buy some more and dont show up at the bus stop one morning and Oops! no tickets. Do I have everything?

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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. Criticism and/or negative feedback during a performance review.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

i.e. My boss will send an email with a cc to me and on the last line or buried in the message he will write something like “I have copied Patricia to set up a teleconference at a mutually convenient time.&# If you are sent an email with a request to do something either asap or later, did you do it or have you diarized it to do it later?

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Loosely Speaking

AUGUST 6, 2009

The Embassy Suites Biltmore is also the site of the International Virtual Assistants Association Summit in April 2010. They will conduct a panel discussion on this topic and invite you to submit your questions in advance: please post them in the comment area below or send an email with your questions to ktcosmos@LooseEnds.net.

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

How to deal with it: If you keep your bosses calendar, you can ask him ahead of time if he needs anything in particular for the meeting or if you know the agenda you can suggest information your boss can take to the meeting and have it prepared. Again, explain the benefits to requesting projects ahead of time and put it in writing.

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The Office Professionals Place

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

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.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Using, reviewing and updating them needs to be an ongoing process. For example, you may allocate specific time periods throughout the day to check email or send out meeting agendas and reminders. During a board meeting prep week, for instance, email may require more time and attention for last-minute submissions and changes.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Many administrators are now handling their leader’s pre-read meeting materials by printing, reviewing and flagging them as appropriate. At least bi-weekly, you and your leader should review the calendar for upcoming events as far as three months out. Consolidate emails/list. Assistant copied on email. Train to manage.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 6, 2010

It never went up to the level of bribing me for a good review, no need to think that far, but they completely changed their attitude towards me. If it’s a friendship, see if the person at the end is not having any hidden agendas which will break up the validation process at some point. I was a strong link in their financial ecosystem.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Tame Your Email 1. Turn off email alerts when emails arrive in your inbox. If you know that you will never answer an email, delete it right away. Create email folders same as you would for word doc and paper files. Examples: If you have a full email box, then schedule an hour each morning to tackle it.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Here's a tip: you talk to, email several people a day. As my business continues to grow from it's inception in 2004, I've added a lot more to my agenda, including blogging on my website, guest blogging, writing articles for e-zines and in print for local magazines, creating a monthly newsletter and doing public speaking.

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Productivityist

MAY 17, 2016

When I’m trying to get something out of my head, I don’t want to see everything else on my agenda. Remember the goal is to get these things out of your head and into the place you want to review the information at a later time. Ideas always start from an external source or from an internal source – namely your own mind.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 15, 2012

It's not unusual that some people have hidden agendas and personal motives. And don't be surprised why people have hidden agendas and personal motives. The EA's only direct reports are interns or other assistants. As always, anyone can email me questions and I respond only via this blog, not to your personal address.

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