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Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail – Meeting Planning Success

Office Dynamics

If you fail to plan appropriately, you are setting yourself up to fail and who wants to do that? So, what do you need to do to prevent failure when planning a meeting, to insure success instead? For starters, you need a design or planning team to help flush out goals and objectives and key messages.

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What is a Meeting Planner Exactly?

Office Dynamics

A meeting planner has the keen ability to bring the right people and resources together to create and deliver programs that best meet the strategic goals , objectives. Planners maximize time spent on the development and delivery of the meeting content to ensure it meets key objectives. Meeting planners are leaders.

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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

Several years ago, I came up with Adminology. Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. To achieve your best results, you would schedule meetings or appointments for your executive using both sides of the brain. It was a formula for success for assistants.

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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

Office Dynamics

Not all people who plan meetings are “meeting planners,” nor do all meeting planners start out their careers as meeting planners. Not only did I set the meetings up, but I also took notes (in shorthand no less), transcribed the notes and prepared final reports for dissemination.

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Time Is Money: Get More of Both with an Executive Assistant

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Problems come up in business all the time, and a great EA takes the initiative to listen to the issues, understand the context and collaborate with you to provide solutions. EAs = increased productivity Imagine this: You’re sitting in a meeting with three from your team. Fifteen minutes go by…20…30… Now it’s time for your next meeting.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Laughing all the Way to Work

Today’s assistants are computer savvy, smart and up-and-coming, and consider themselves professionals in the workplace. Those who are skilled at regularly thinking on their feet as they come up with solutions and ideas both on the computer and on the job might be able to step into this role.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Today’s assistants are computer savvy, smart and up-and-coming, and consider themselves professionals in the workplace. Those who are skilled at regularly thinking on their feet as they come up with solutions and ideas both on the computer and on the job might be able to step into this role.

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