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All Things Admin
JUNE 23, 2021
Procedures, forms, and checklists combine to create systems for how you get things done efficiently. Let’s use meeting and event planning as our example, and focus on creating a system for planning monthly staff meetings. When you’re planning a staff meeting, what do you do and in what order?
Laughing all the Way to Work
DECEMBER 12, 2009
Put it in a folder for your boss’s signature in completed form, i.e. envelope clipped to letter and attachments. If you are sending the letter by regular mail, courier or registered mail, make sure you have the proper postage, courier slips or forms filled out. I usually put a sticky note on it for that as well.
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Laughing all the Way to Work
DECEMBER 19, 2009
When I receive an initial request for a meeting, I use a meeting form and write down the information I need: who is requesting the meeting, what is the purpose of the meeting, where it will be held and a phone number or an e-mail address and dates that are available. Minute taking made easier. Dealing in real time.
Laughing all the Way to Work
NOVEMBER 7, 2009
I love to write, as you have probably noticed in some of my blog articles, so I try to keep that in mind and keep my e-mails short, but sometimes you need a little more information. If you have a few ideas or requests in your e-mail, it is best to set it out in point form so the person does not have to dig for it. Point being.
Laughing all the Way to Work
FEBRUARY 20, 2010
In its simplest form minutes are a record of discussion, decisions and actions to be taken and the date by when it needs to be completed. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service? Lets enjoy our day together.©
Laughing all the Way to Work
MARCH 15, 2009
If there are forms that need to filled in and it has a due date in June, I put those forms in the June folder with a bf date on it for a week before it is due. I then put the items in a two-fold file folder with his calendar printed out on the one side and the items he will need for the day on the other side.
Laughing all the Way to Work
DECEMBER 5, 2009
I wrote an article awhile back called On the Outside Looking In. If you know what works best for you and if your job is 80/20 on what you like then you can put up with the small stuff like filing and filling out expense forms. I am not responsible for the content on any sites I have linked to as a resource or linked to in my articles.
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