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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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Training On-line

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 January, 2009 Training On-line Recently someone asked me a question about training on-line so I thought I would share the answer in a post. I use a place based in Toronto, Canada called Last Minute Training. Training On-line 10 Things = Frustration "Mom, I'm sick!"

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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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Administrative Assistants Broaden Your Skillset

Office Dynamics

At our recent Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence , I surveyed 350 attendees about the topics they would like me to address at future conferences or training events. When it comes to figuring out your soft skills, enlarge your vision; don’t just look at the tasks such as meeting planning or calendaring. Persuasion.

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That's not my job!

Laughing all the Way to Work

What about brainstorming to see what organizational tools would work best in the office? Sometimes scheduling meetings can be a headache with no end in sight trying to get all the parties together. If someone is needed at the Reception Desk to greet guests and take calls, we can easily step in. February 22, 2009 Patricia Robb said.