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Zooming In On Engagement: How Turning Off Your Camera Can Hurt Your Career

Allwork

Amy Casciotti: As discussed, turning on the camera generally helps keep you engaged as well as speaking up when questions are posed or when you have questions. Another way to stay engaged is the oft-forgotten follow-up after a meeting. Establishing the ground rules for call culture, including typical etiquette and protocols, can help.

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7 Golden Rules for Successful Virtual Meetings

Worxbee

Any additional meetings are taking up time that could otherwise be spent on work, so limiting your meetings can be the first “golden rule” to get success out of them. #2. Set a clear agenda Another massive time waster happens when people say “let’s meet at 10am Tuesday,” then don’t prepare ahead for the meeting.

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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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Whose meeting is it anyway?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Do you ever get a meeting request and an agenda has not been provided, or if it is a teleconference the call-in details have not been given or the boardroom hasnt been booked for an internal meeting? ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Meeting preparation.

Laughing all the Way to Work

To prepare a minute template simply use your agenda and put it in minute format. Under each agenda heading you can then record the appropriate information when you are in the meeting. To finalize your minutes, you will just need to tidy up the language and formatting for the Chairs approval. Are you plugged in? Now I am free to.

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Mean girl assistants: Dealing with high school office politics

Who's the Real Boss?

Driven by their own agenda, these assistants care little about their team or having a positive impact on those around them. Now I got asked to write on this topic of ‘mean girls’, and not surprising given my previous articles written on EA etiquette and the obsession we have with status. Call out bad behaviour.

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Preparing your boss for meetings away from the office or at home

Laughing all the Way to Work

Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc. Ensure that prior to the meeting you have received everything your boss will need, which may require follow up with meeting organizer. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!"