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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). I know many seasoned executive assistants who think they do not need to focus on or pay attention to their basic skills, what is also known as the fundamentals. Every career has certain core fundamental skills. This is not smart.

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Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

Office Dynamics

But now that I am the executive involved in numerous meetings, I can tell you what really is important. Calendar management is an important skill. Meeting planning is a cognitive task. Level of meetings: high-level meeting with high-level prep; low-level meetings with minor preparation time?

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What is a Meeting Planner Exactly?

Office Dynamics

A meeting planner by MY definition is the go-to person and should be a key member of the design (or planning) team within an organization — be it corporate, association or otherwise — charged with the responsibility of planning and executing a meeting or special event. Get your copy today!

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Multigenerational Communication & Cross-mentorship

Office Dynamics

The diverse team has combined organizational and time management skills, event and meeting planning, business savvy, continued professional development drive and so much more to ensure success and positive outcomes. Time to read and share professional blogs, articles, books, and webinars (most are free!).

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More OneNote Must-Knows: History, Search, and Template Creation

All Things Admin

procedures, meeting minutes, travel itinerary, meeting planning, project plans) On the INSERT ribbon, click on Page Templates. Create a page in OneNote or insert a file from Word that you want to use as your standard template for various needs throughout the notebook. Click on Page Templates at the bottom of that window.

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Are you getting attendees to your meetings?

Practically Perfect PA

So you have organised a meeting, it has been in everyone’s diaries for ages, you’ve booked a room and ordered tea and coffee. You get to the meeting room only to find a handful of attendees have arrived, some turn up late, others couldn’t find the room and one person just didn’t bother turning up.

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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? When booking meetings ownership of the meeting has to be established. Is the boardroom booked?

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