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How to take meeting minutes like a professional

BMT Office Administration

Meeting minutes are a staple of all Board meetings, and many internal company meetings, as they serve as an official written record of a meeting to aid in future decision-making and fill in employees who couldn’t attend. Instead, you’ll be able to easily provide effective meeting minutes , all while not missing a beat of the meeting agenda.

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10 Tips for Planning a Successful Event

Jen Lawrence

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. Whether you have an internal share folder or use Google Drive, declare a location to track all information and save important files.

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

I started frantically googling, ‘how to write minutes?’ If you can get your hands on different types of minutes internally in your business (whether they be Board minutes, Steer Co minutes or team meeting minutes), start reading them and see what others do, what they capture and how they structure it. So, start reading!

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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? .© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 May, 2010 Whose meeting is it anyway? Whose responsibility is it anyway? Is the boardroom booked?

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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. Trust me, people start to get irritated when this happens over and over again.

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My First Experience at The Conference for Administrative Excellence

Office Dynamics

Googled “Administrative Conferences”. Our agenda looked the best when compared to other administrative conferences. The last company, Office Dynamics International, specializes in the training and education of Administrative and Executive Assistants. It was awesome to hear the reasons why you all chose to come.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Below are a few tips so the task is not as daunting: Filling in the blanks I take minutes on a laptop so it is easy to make a template ahead of time which is based on the agenda. I put the items from the agenda on the template in the same order and with a space to put the discussion and decisions/actions from the meeting.