Melissa Peoples

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Use Centralized Collaboration Tools Managing meeting agendas, invites, content, decks, meeting minutes and tracking actionable items can overwhelm the most seasoned professional. When you are required to juggle a lot of moving pieces, it is essential to avoid gathering agenda topics, content, deck versions, and minutes via email.

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Clutter Coach

MARCH 19, 2020

Google Play ? Try to resist buying new ones till you use up your current stock. Now you don’t have something you ended up not liking cluttering up your drawer. Just release them and free up space in that drawer. by Listen or subscribe here: iTunes ? Stitcher ?. Soundcloud ? iHeartRadio You can leave a review here!

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

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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Clutter Coach

JUNE 28, 2018

Google Play. I came up with this idea for one of my clients who’s a consultant. Once we had the timeline we could see where my client might get hung up and start procrastinating. We don’t have a specific agenda for our calls, although that’s a great idea. by Subscribe: iTunes ? Soundcloud ?

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

In fact just this week, on a group that I belong to, this very question came up, so I jumped in with my recommendations and thought I’d share them here with you too. Google Calendars. Good ole’ Google calendars are a really quick and simple project management tool. But first … a little advice. Central Desktop.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

So many of you came up and introduced yourselves and said, “Hey you’re the guy I get all the emails from” I had to slip it into this blog. I didn’t know what to expect or how many people would show up but when I rounded the corner with my phone on Facebook Live, I was impressed with the HUGE turnout. It really was awesome to see.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 16, 2010

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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Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 14, 2009

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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Success

JANUARY 8, 2024

Make sure you know what you’re signing up for and read the cancellation policy before entering your credit card information. This Apple-only app offers comprehensive tracking systems to monitor good and bad habits, helps you set up SMART goals and provides charts and graphs to see your progress over time. 10 best goal setting apps 1.

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The reason why is summed up perfectly by one of my favorite quotes from Joan Burge, founder, and CEO of Office Dynamics, Inc. Course agendas and certificates from continuing education. Joining LinkedIn is free – just sign up for an account and create your profile. Protect Your Admin Career. It lies within you.”. This is so true.

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

You don’t actually try closing them out but must control them so that they won’t blow you up into pieces. The only thing that you can do is to prevent the build up of new “open loops&# on top of your existing “open loops&#. GTD Agenda - This is one of the tools designed with the GTD system in mind.

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The Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I hope these videos will help you to make up your mind to start your own business, it does not cost the earth. If providing additional income for your family is on your agenda, this could be one of your opportunities. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

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!"

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Productivityist

MAY 23, 2014

That''s the kind of feature that keeps me moving when I''m on the go, and not worrying about where I need to look next to find out what''s coming up on the travel agenda. Maps/Google Maps. I''ve never really had a problem with Apple''s stock Maps app, but I keep Google Maps around just to have my bases covered.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 13, 2010

I take the bus to work and I often see people getting on a busy bus and then going through their backpack or purse looking for their bus tickets and holding up the line. I like to be prepared and I find life just works better for me at home, work and even on the bus, when I am organized and ready for whatever is coming up. no tickets.

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Productivityist

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact Why Downtime Leads to More Time Posted on 10/17/2012 // 2 Comments So it’s been over a week since I put anything up here, yet I’ve been putting many things up all over the Internet. I finished up some key projects. And man, did I ever get things done.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 23, 2015

If you’ve ever put your work calendar into your Google Calendar (or equivalent) and you are an iPhone user then Shifts is an app that will allow you to “shift” away from that and enter your work schedule into it instead. Seem redundant or solving a problem that doesn’t need solving? Think again.

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Productivityist

MAY 23, 2014

That’s the kind of feature that keeps me moving when I’m on the go, and not worrying about where I need to look next to find out what’s coming up on the travel agenda. Maps/Google Maps. TripIt covers that for me, and I’m grateful for that. Perfect Weather. It only makes sense to keep them in this folder.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 5, 2009

I was at the cottage with a friend and she was cranky and started to get wound up about something to do with her husband. She had an agenda and was going to let him have it. By the end of the call her husband had caught her crankiness and it ended up with them both being angry. She had an agenda and was going to let him have it.

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BMT Office Administration

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Instead, you’ll be able to easily provide effective meeting minutes , all while not missing a beat of the meeting agenda. These factors sum up the primary purpose of meeting minutes — to provide a step-by-step breakdown of what takes place during a Board meeting. Approval of the meeting agenda. For future reference.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Click on that and you will find a wealth of templates from a resume, cover letter, minutes, agenda and many others. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca I believe someone mentioned there were almost 500 to choose from.

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Who's the Real Boss?

AUGUST 31, 2020

But as a hard and fast rule, it is important to skill yourself up to the highest level in being able to produce formal Board minutes, as for any other lower level of meeting you can just scale back the formal-ness of your minutes to suit the tone of that meeting. I started frantically googling, ‘how to write minutes?’

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 13, 2010

I think Tasks is one of Outlooks best-kept secrets, but it shouldnt be and is a great way to follow up on items. If I send an email to a co-worker requesting information, I immediately drag it from my Sent items to my Tasks, set a reminder to follow up and write in the Subject line "Did I get this information". 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 19, 2009

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. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I started this blog to share the knowledge I had picked up over the years either from other administrative assistants, my bosses or from trial and error. Bring Forward System or Using Tasks in Outlook Have a system to follow up on items your boss has asked you to do or things you know you need to do. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Making a List, Checking it Twice The Board meeting I am preparing for is a two-day event and I dont want to forget anything that I need to do leading up to it, or anything that I need on the day of. A memory stick is my back up if my laptop and I part ways. 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca " Warning!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Another bring-forward and organizing tip my friend shared with me (that she picked up from another assistant along the way) is using two-fold folders, with inside pockets. Do you have any suggestions for my OVERWHELMINGLY large "to follow up on" folder. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!"

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2007

This will allow you to stay in close touch with your supplier, and get real time up-dates and feed-back – there are other benefits too. Get a back-up. Negotiate a back-up deal if you can, so if your primary provider falls ill, you have a back-up, or divide the work between two or more service providers to begin with.

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Jen Lawrence

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The sheer number of details can trip planners up. 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. What needs a back-up plan? Build the Agenda Along the Way. Always Follow Up.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While the Bank of England has lowered the interest rate to the lowest level on record, the banks have doubled the interest they demand from small business owners, up to almost 20% for certain loans – that is a 19.5% the recession is nothing the media hyped up, since you lost your job because of it, you should know; 4.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

and will outstrip our economies within the next decades, unless our politicians, will finally stop putting barriers up for micro businesses. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank Emerging economies like China, India and some others are learning from the U.S.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

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.

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Rob Wu, Executive Business Partner, Google Ventures. Administrative Professionals are often task-focused and manage much of the inbound, says Rob Wu, Executive Business Partner at Google Ventures. I Google everyone who comes into my inbox; I want to know who you are and why you’re talking to us.” ” SPEAK UP.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 28, 2011

And while I can sync my stuff across multiple calendar apps using my Google Calendar settings, I’ve decided that this is a good time of year to pare down the amount of apps I have on my various iDevices that deal with scheduled appointments. Agenda and its recent enhancements make it very difficult to stray and try another calendar app.

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Productivityist

JULY 31, 2014

Set an agenda. This should go without saying, but if you go into the meeting with your life partner without some sort of agenda then you''re setting yourself up for an unfocused session. It sets up expectations accordingly and yet still leaves room for flexibility if the need arises.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 24, 2009

Under Leader, click the leader option that suits your needs i.e. ……1 or --1 Click OK Type text you want i.e. Agenda as in example below. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" Will Google ever stop amazing me? 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 7, 2010

If you want to impress, you can’t let up as quickly as others. You keep yourself from telling 20 people you are going to do things for them, ending up only doing the things for 5 of them, and instead tell 5 people you will do things for them, and do them a little better than you described.

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