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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. What are meeting minutes for? Where did meeting minutes come from?

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Sabotage in Today's Workplace May Begin With You

On The Job

Galford, Bob Frische and Cary Greene use unclassified World War II documents from the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor of the CIA) to reveal how European resistance movement members were advised how they could muck up the internal works of an organization. Never permit shortcuts to speed up decision-making.

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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. This will show up under “My Templates” for ongoing use in your notebook. NOTE: If you are sharing the notebook, the template will only show up under My Templates for you.

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When your boss arranges meetings behind your back.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Does your boss ever organize a meeting behind your back? He will have a quick conversation with a staff member and set up a meeting, but not tell me anything about it. Assess which meetings can be adjusted without too much disruption. Internal meetings can usually be changed more easily so start there.

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Admin Buddies

Laughing all the Way to Work

It works well when it is a co-worker who sits closest to you, but depending on how your office is set up that might not be possible. If it is a planned time off then you can meet with your buddy and give them any instructions or information they will need to handle in your absence and any contact names and numbers. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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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. 411 Look Up 411.ca 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Some people in the office were trying to get the remote working as we had a PowerPoint presentation coming up and were calling it things like remote thingy , remote slide clicker, wireless mouse so I finally asked, "Does anyone know what the official name for that thing is?" EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct.