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Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail – Meeting Planning Success

Office Dynamics

Once you have identified your goals and objectives and key messages, you’ll be in a better position to determine who to invite to the meeting, how many people you’re talking about, how high up or down the chain of command do you go. My Overall Meeting Action Plan template is a great tool to help you document this all out.

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Finding my Niche by Mary Jo Wiseman

Office Dynamics

Not all people who plan meetings are “meeting planners,” nor do all meeting planners start out their careers as meeting planners. I for one, started out on a clerical/administrative path with absolutely no knowledge at the time that a career in meeting planning even existed (and at the time it probably didn’t).

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How To Leverage Criticism At Work

Office Dynamics

An administrative peer thinks his process for approaching meeting planning is the best way and you feel your approach is better. Invest in Your Writing Skills—New Tool! Office Dynamics International announces a new tool that boosts your writing skills by making it easy to find the correct word every time. Joan Burge.

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Are you getting attendees to your meetings?

Practically Perfect PA

Considering how many meetings assistants are asked to organise it is important that we manage our meetings effectively and we have everyone there that is supposed to be there. Here are a few tips which will help you get attendees to your meetings. Plan the meeting in advance. Use a meeting productivity tool.

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More OneNote Must-Knows: History, Search, and Template Creation

All Things Admin

Create a Template When I train people on creating office procedures, I start by encouraging them to use a template so that they have a standardized tool to help them keep their procedures consistent from page to page whether they are typed or handwritten. Click on Page Templates at the bottom of that window.

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4 Fresh Meeting Trends and Where to Find Them

Office Dynamics

Four major trends in meeting room styles are featured below and all four (and hundreds more) meeting rooms can be found on Spacebase along with many other. budding meeting industry trends. Green Meetings. A great example of this. skyrocketing trend is Coje, a coworking space located in Berlin.

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Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog

Laughing all the Way to Work

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