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Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings

Office Dynamics

The reasons meetings. have increased are due in part to the rise in teams and requisite team meetings and technology such as video-conferencing accommodating slashed travel budgets. Approximately 11 million meetings occur in the U.S. Identify the objective for your meeting. Get feedback from attendees. Joan Burge.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Travel planning. Meeting and event planning. Other systems you may want to prioritize, depending on your job duties, include: Disaster recovery planning. Determine the agenda and who is presenting. Send out the meeting invitation to all participants. Determine catering needs for the meeting.

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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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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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Calling all Northern Arizona Virtual Assistants: Is there anyone.

Loosely Speaking

Please feel free to forward this information to any other VAs you know who do meet our guidelines as stated above. Agenda will be provided once you RSVP to either tara-at-cableone-dot-net or ktcosmos-at-LooseEnds-dot-net. We’ll meet at The Raven on Cortez Street (in Prescott Arizona) at 9 a.m.

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Meeting preparation.

Laughing all the Way to Work

This does increase the preparation time, but on the day of the meeting it goes very smoothly with no stress. 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.

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Preparing your boss for meetings away from the office or at home

Laughing all the Way to Work

Secure the date and time in his or her calendar, taking into consideration travel time if outside the office. State the purpose of the meeting in the calendar appointment as well as who will be at the meeting (i.e. Meeting with Mr. Brown and Ms. Smith to discuss strategies for upcoming marketing conference).