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Ground rules for team meetings

Practically Perfect PA

Every meeting must have an agenda . Make sure every meeting has an agenda, it can be very simple for example: Date, time, location. Agenda / meeting’s purpose. The most important aspect of the agenda is the timing of each item. No PowerPoint . Death by PowerPoint is real peeps! Supporting papers.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Determine the agenda and who is presenting. Create the meeting agenda for the department head’s approval. Gather all materials for the agenda and participant materials. Meeting Agenda. Determine the agenda and who is presenting. Create the meeting agenda for the department head’s approval. Meeting Agenda.

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Choosing the Best Administrative Assistant or Executive Assistant Conference

Office Dynamics

The flow of the agenda – is there time for networking? So attendees have to take a bunch of photos of the PowerPoint slides as the speaker presents. Speakers – are they polished professionals? Do they walk their talk? Do they understand the administrative profession? Or are they a thought leader in a particular area of focus?

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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. Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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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? Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? Lets enjoy our day together.© Whose responsibility is it anyway?

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How to Hold Effective Meetings

Professional Assistant Blog

Plan out an agenda of all points that will need to be discussed. The Timekeeper would make sure each topic is covered within the amount of time mentioned on the agenda. If the person isnt responsible for any of the items discussed in this meeting, dont invite them. Delegate a person to be a a Facilitator, a Timekeeper and a Scribe.

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Who Called? Use A Phone Call Log!

Professional Assistant Blog

In my case, I am lucky, since I only have to track calls for myself and use my daily journal or agenda (call it what you will) to make notes. Do you wish that you could be able to track calls and make sure that you have all of the details in place? This happens to everyone from time to time.

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