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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

Office Dynamics

Not all people who plan meetings are “meeting planners,” nor do all meeting planners start out their careers as meeting planners. Not only did I set the meetings up, but I also took notes (in shorthand no less), transcribed the notes and prepared final reports for dissemination. Program Content/Agenda .

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Are you getting attendees to your meetings?

Practically Perfect PA

Considering how many meetings assistants are asked to organise it is important that we manage our meetings effectively and we have everyone there that is supposed to be there. Here are a few tips which will help you get attendees to your meetings. Plan the meeting in advance. Write an agenda.

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Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings

Office Dynamics

Identify the objective for your meeting. If you do not have a clear objective, then there is no sense holding a meeting. Distribute an agenda to participants before the meeting. Participants should come prepared for their meeting. Participants should know what is expected of them prior to a meeting.

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Time Is Money: Get More of Both with an Executive Assistant

Worxbee

EAs support the growth of the company One of the main draws to having an EA is that they increase productivity and provide problem-solving. EAs can take notes, file or organize, do proactive research, meet clients, and arrange meetings. Fifteen minutes go by…20…30… Now it’s time for your next meeting. Which sounds better?

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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

The minutes are the end product of a meeting but how do we ensure the meeting itself is well organised, productive and attended by the right people? Committee meetings tend to be long drawn out affairs and can go on all day so the attendees need to be comfortable. The agenda. The timing of meetings.

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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

The minutes are the end product of a meeting but how do we ensure the meeting itself is well organised, productive and attended by the right people? Committee meetings tend to be long drawn out affairs and can go on all day so the attendees need to be comfortable. The agenda. The timing of meetings.

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Whose meeting is it anyway?

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 May, 2010 Whose meeting is it anyway? 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? Lets enjoy our day together.©

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