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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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Say Goodbye To Calendar Tetris And Say Hello To Strategic Calendar Planning

Melissa Peoples

How do you ensure tasks, projects, and meetings have a clear goal and definition so that it isn't open-ended? If not, it is hard to align their calendar with their goals and priorities. Do they have time in the calendar to accomplish their goals and priorities? 7 Things You Need Before You Schedule Any Meeting.

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Sabotage in Today's Workplace May Begin With You

On The Job

Nitpick and haggle over precise wording of communications, meeting minutes and resolutions. In a meeting, attempt to reopen old issues and question their viability. They offer solutions such as remembering to clarify goals continually to keep people on topic, and curtailing people who haggle so much they derail progress.

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Artificial Intelligence at Work: How Office Professionals Can Build A.I. Skills for the Future

Eat Your Career

Your goal is not to save hours of work in the first few minutes of using a new tool. Your goal is to just test it out, see how it works, and start thinking about how it could be useful. There is no time like the present to start playing with Artificial Intelligence—and yes, I do mean “playing.” If it does, great.

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5 Things Every Meeting Management Guru Does

Melissa Peoples

Also, take time to share your own "pain points" concerning meeting management and get a clear understanding of what kind of structure and tools they use to ensure successful meetings. a very Alice-in-Wonderland kind of rabbit hole into another world of topics and conversation that does not align to the meeting purpose or goal.

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10 Tips for More Effective Office Meetings

Productivity Bits

All too often, however, meetings do not accomplish these simple goals. There are several ways to ensure that meetings are effective, without having to spend excessive amounts of time in the conference room. In order to do this, make sure that you plan your meetings in advance. Ground Rules And Meeting Agenda.

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Playing nice in the sandbox

Laughing all the Way to Work

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Are you doing your part and contributing to the goals of the team or are you getting bogged down with situations? EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.