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Upping your A(ssisting) game when you work with a Board of Trustees

Executive Leadership Support Blog

Below are three suggestions to “up your game” when working with the board. These are just a few items from our Bylaws that have come up in meetings that I was able to give the answer to so we could continue working. Offer to help put together the agenda for meetings, offer to tackle a project for a committee. Pull up your seat.

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Stuck In Back-to-Back Virtual Meetings? Here’s How to Avoid Zoom Fatigue

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So, give your technology a bit of a brush-up to ensure you are optimizing your opportunity to engage as much as possible and not just staring at the same speaker the whole time. Slides, videos and photo sharing are all ways to break up the monotony. Or better yet, make sure that meeting couldn’t have been an email.

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4 Things to Consider Before Working with a Virtual Financial Adviser

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Virtual financial advisers can counsel you via video conference, phone or email. Work up an agenda and send it via email a few days in advance. Give your adviser time to conduct the necessary research to prepare for the discussion to speed up the process and provide you with the insights you need.

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6 Things to Do before Unplugging for the Weekend

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Be sure to set the agenda , record objectives and define responsibilities. Cleaning up your space will also help you mentally start to unplug from work in preparation for the weekend. — Put up a killer away message. I have increased traffic on the weekends because my away message drives emailers to my latest posts.

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Make Your Meetings More Engaging

Office Dynamics

or an agenda is created, the room is reserved, but the topics are not clear. Create a clear agenda. Make sure room is set up appropriately for the specific meeting (if another meeting was there prior, can that format work for your meeting). Make copies or provide data via a shared drive, jump drive, email, etc.

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How You Can Combat Collaboration Overload to Improve Company Performance—and Your Own

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For example, if you get too many emails, sit in too many meetings or spend too much time waiting for sign-offs, you can be left with little time to complete your tasks. If you automatically say “yes” to every request, you could end up working too many late nights and heading toward the verge of overwhelm.

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How to Free Up Time for Exercise at Work

Productivity Bits

Between meetings, emails, projects, reports and presentations, you might not think there’s room left in your work schedule for much else besides, well, work. It might seem counter-intuitive to add yet another bullet point to your to-do list, but the benefits of exercise far outweigh the time it’ll take to reconfigure your daily agenda.

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