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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. Transfer action items to follow-up lists, calendars, and “to-do” folder.

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Administrative Assistants Broaden Your Skillset

Office Dynamics

What surprised me after looking at the list was that many of the requests had to do with the typical administrative skills or tasks such as: managing multiple managers, dealing with difficult people, managing stress, calendar management, and troubleshooting. For example, what are the skills you need to be excellent at meeting planning?

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Sticks and stones will break my bones.but names will never hurt me

Laughing all the Way to Work

Imagine, if we had assistants at home to pay the bills, do the budget, organize dinners, answer our calls and follow up with reminders -- it is starting to sound pretty good. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service?