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Charlotte Lockhart of 4 Day Week Global | The Secret to Increasing Productivity by 20%

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And then it’s also about making sure that you have an agenda. He won’t go for the meeting that the chamber is sticking to the agenda and sticking a stopping on time and finishing on time. To workplace stress and mental health. One in four in the UK of our staff have a mental health or workplace stress problem.

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

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Minute taking definitely isnt easy, but it doesnt have to be stressful. 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 use four columns with the headings: Item#, Discussion, Decision/Action, By when.

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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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Meetings Plus: Taking them offline

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Much easier than searching in Outlook and less stressful. 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.

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Going Checklist Crazy

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As an aside, pen and paper will suffice if I have to, but you can see that the checklist can help avoid any unnecessary stresses from happening. Another thing to put on your checklist if you are using a laptop is a memory stick. A memory stick is my back up if my laptop and I part ways. I think I feel another checklist coming on, gotta go.