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How to take meeting minutes like a professional

BMT Office Administration

Meeting minutes are a staple of all Board meetings, and many internal company meetings, as they serve as an official written record of a meeting to aid in future decision-making and fill in employees who couldn’t attend. Yet, if you’ve never written meeting minutes before, it may seem like an intimidating process.

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Will Google ever stop amazing me? Introducing Goog/411

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 10 May, 2009 Will Google ever stop amazing me? Introducing Goog/411 I was introduced to Google when I went back to work as an assistant in a law firm in Ottawa. It was then she introduced me to Google. Recently, a temp worker at my job gave me another Google tip. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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How to Hold Effective Meetings

Professional Assistant Blog

The Scribe would take notes during the meeting. After the meeting, provide a copy of the meeting minutes to everyone involved in the meeting. You will notice that your meetings will run much smoother once you apply these methods. A template can be downloaded here.

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Different spellings: British, Canadian and American

Laughing all the Way to Work

Thank goodness for Google , I use it all the time to get answers. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct. Taking Effective Meeting Minutes ► August (3) Pass it on. This time I came up with a site called Karens Linguistics Issues. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m. Oh where or where is my password?

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

However, I must point out, no one can actually teach you how to write minutes, nor did anyone teach me. Earlier in my career, when I was presented with the responsibility of minute taking (which I freaked out over, mind you!), I started frantically googling, ‘how to write minutes?’ So, start reading!

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We live in an Acronym Happy World.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Coming from a legal background, we were always taught if you are using an acronym or initialism in writing, on the first use you should spell it out and then put the acronym in brackets, which makes a lot of sense and saves a lot of head scratching and searching the document to figure out what the person is referring to. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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

Laughing all the Way to Work

I dont mind being referred to as someones assistant. My current boss always refers to me as his colleague, both to those within our company and to external contacts when referring them to me. I tend to use the term boss when I refer to my employer. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct.