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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Procedures, forms, and checklists combine to create systems for how you get things done efficiently. Every office needs different systems to run smoothly, but most administrative professionals will require most or all of the systems in this core group: Time and task management. Determine the agenda and who is presenting.

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Professional. Administrative Professional.

Office Dynamics

Here’s what happened: Following a 2-day business conference I had planned and organized, I was seated at dinner along with three attorneys, one of whom worked in Australia. After a full day of managing an agenda, his comment caught me completely off guard. Did he say it because I was an administrator, or because I was female?

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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

Office Dynamics

Did I know the difference between a board room or conference room set and a classroom set? I believe meeting planners and administrative professionals possess similar skills/traits that enable them to be good at what they do. Program Content/Agenda . BUT, I learned and I learned quickly by making some mistakes early on.

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A Test of Your Professionalism: Will You Pass?

The Office Professionals Place

If you become timid when it comes to speaking in a group meeting, provided you know what the agenda items are prior to the meeting, put them in writing in proposal form and give them to the Chair before the meeting or slide them to him during the meeting. Thank you for this extremely educational and thought-provoking article.

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

Can you bring in new business, improve operating efficiency, reduce costs, help build the strategy that will form the company’s future? And of course you don’t want to completely control the meeting, or otherwise disregard the other person’s agenda. Help them better leverage partners and suppliers?

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Meetings Plus: Taking them offline

Laughing all the Way to Work

When I receive an initial request for a meeting, I use a meeting form and write down the information I need: who is requesting the meeting, what is the purpose of the meeting, where it will be held and a phone number or an e-mail address and dates that are available. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct.

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On the job tips for new Admins.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Put it in a folder for your boss’s signature in completed form, i.e. envelope clipped to letter and attachments. If you are sending the letter by regular mail, courier or registered mail, make sure you have the proper postage, courier slips or forms filled out. I usually put a sticky note on it for that as well.