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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Procedures show you, step-by-step, how to perform a specific task – for example, completing an expense report or submitting a check request. Determine the agenda and who is presenting. Create the meeting agenda for the department head’s approval. Gather all materials for the agenda and participant materials.

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Why Wellworking decided to become the latest B Corporation

Workplace Insight

We have also introduced measures such as annual environmental training for all staff and this has already led to colleagues coming forward with suggestions of how we can reduce waste at our sites and how we can buy more sustainable office supplies. What we’ve realised is that becoming a B Corp is not the finish line.

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Shorter, More Effective Meetings

Office Dynamics

The cost of the average meeting, including salaries, expenses, and opportunity costs is estimated at $5000. 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. and another under productive meeting…and another.

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So you’ve been asked to organise an event… now what?

Practically Perfect PA

We are asked to arrange all sorts of events including anything from a team training day through to the company Christmas party and other large scale conferences, exhibitions and dinners. The agenda. A pre-event agenda should look something like this: What is the purpose of the event? Why are you holding an event?

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Shorter, More Effective Meetings

Office Dynamics

The cost of the average meeting, including salaries, expenses, and opportunity costs is estimated at $5000. 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. Well, instead of right now, make it 10 minutes from now.

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Major Meltdown in Time Management - Tips to Avoid it Happening To You

Stephanie LH Calahan

usually at the expense of our own sanity. List Tasks (example) a- Plan Agenda b- Billy Bob’s Review c- Draft budget report d- Clean out my inbox 2.     B Which is more important: “a-Plan Agenda” or “c-Draft budget report”?    C Which is more important: “a-Plan Agenda” or “d-Clean out my inbox”? 

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Make Procedures Development a Habit, Not a Project

All Things Admin

For example, you may allocate specific time periods throughout the day to check email or send out meeting agendas and reminders. Or you may have set days of the week where you do certain reports or perform routine tasks like expense reporting or payroll.

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