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10 Tips for Planning a Successful Event

Jen Lawrence

Whether putting together an all-day meeting or holiday party, the tips below will set you on the right path to hosting a successful event. Even a holiday party has an agenda!) The second will be for the attendees, including dates for sending invitations and reminders, confirmations, agendas, events details, and thank yous.

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Skeleton Staff

Laughing all the Way to Work

During the holidays it is important to have people in the office to keep things going. You probably have some nice photos from the holidays that you can display as well or cards from friends. On-line housecleaning - It is also very important to make yourself at home in your online files, but also to do some clean up.

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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. During the holidays, there may be less email and meetings and more time for planning and organizing. Routines tend to fall apart if a single action in the sequence is missed or goes awry.

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Calendar Clarity

Laughing all the Way to Work

You can add the agenda to the meeting request by attaching it. To add an attachment, click on the Insert tab and choose Attach File or Attach Item. I also like to turn on the stat holiday alerts in Outlook so you will see all the stat holidays in a calendar year. Stat holidays will now be added as all-day items.

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How to exorcise your demons of disorganization

Ian's Messy Desk

Manage paper effectively – Barbara Hemphill, author of The Paper Tiger, offers the FAT principle for paper burden: file it, act on it, or toss it. Reference Files: store in a convenient location close to your desk. Archive Files: store in a filing cabinet or an off-site location.

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Meetings Plus: Taking them offline

Laughing all the Way to Work

When a meeting is finalized, I put the scheduling sheet in a completed file. I tend to keep my scheduling sheets in chronological order and each morning I go through them to see if there is any action I need to take, i.e. follow up to ask for an agenda or see if I can start scheduling. Excellent material! 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Pass it on.

Laughing all the Way to Work

This is useful if you want to file the email and change the Subject line to something that better describes what the email is about or to put notes in the email. I also drag items from my Inbox if someone sends me an email to advise they will be sending an agenda or some other item by a certain date. Excellent material!