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Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

Office Dynamics

Meeting planning is a cognitive task. You must think about your manager’s workload, other commitments, travel, upcoming meetings, past meetings, previous week’s schedule. You would consider jet lag; personal appointments; time to prepare; time to wrap up a meeting; logistics; travel time. COGNITIVE task!

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How to Stay Organized with Leadership Team Meetings? – Ask An Admin

Office Dynamics

It’s your turn to give your advice, tips, tricks, and anything else you have to offer up. About Ask an Admin: Ask an Admin will be a weekly post on our blog that presents a question that you or a fellow administrative professional submitted to us. Meeting Planning and Execution Live E-Learning Course.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

It should be easy for someone else to pick up, follow, and achieve the same results, even if they’ve never touched the project before. Check with all participants on availability for the options presented. Determine preferred meeting date, time, and location based on available options for all participants. Meeting Agenda.

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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve worked with quite a few Boards and Committees over the years and have organised some worthwhile meetings and also some useless time wasting meetings so I understand the balance needs to be right and steps have to be followed to ensure the meeting is a success. The timing of meetings. During the meeting.

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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve worked with quite a few Boards and Committees over the years and have organised some worthwhile meetings and also some useless time wasting meetings so I understand the balance needs to be right and steps have to be followed to ensure the meeting is a success. The timing of meetings. During the meeting.

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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?" It's called a Presentation Remote. Thanks Patty.

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I look like that!!

Laughing all the Way to Work

I was in a workshop today on presentation skills and one of the things they had us do was present something to the group while they filmed us. Of course, the reason could have been that I was up all night with a sick child or wasnt feeling well myself or I just had an argument with my spouse and was still stewing about it.