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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. Program Content/Agenda .

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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 must think about the time commitment related to each meeting. Did he/she travel? This week’s schedule How many meetings?

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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

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. You would: Take into consideration your executive’s travel. Excellent team building exercises.

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Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings

Office Dynamics

I bet that like many people you thought meetings would go by the wayside because of technology or at least there would be fewer meetings. 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.

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Under a Bushel

Office Dynamics

While I can’t always answer your requests within 72 hours due to my heavy travel and speaking schedule, I do get to them. As administrative support staff, most of us are accustomed to taking on whatever tasks are necessary to keep the team on-track, normally for relatively short-term assignments. Here is one such request.

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Under a Bushel

Office Dynamics

While I can’t always answer your requests within 72 hours due to my heavy travel and speaking schedule, I do get to them. As administrative support staff, most of us are accustomed to taking on whatever tasks are necessary to keep the team on-track, normally for relatively short-term assignments. Here is one such request.

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Playing nice in the sandbox

Laughing all the Way to Work

Some people dont play well in a team and can be like that link in the chain that keeps skipping. What can you do if you are part of a team that is not playing well together? Are you doing your part and contributing to the goals of the team or are you getting bogged down with situations? Good team play can be contagious.