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Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail – Meeting Planning Success

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My Request for Proposal (RFP) template will help you define your guest room and meeting specs for the venues under consideration lessening the chance for any misunderstandings. It does and it will unless you first have a PLAN and a PROCESS in place to help you. To order a hard copy of my book, click here.

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Finding my Niche by Mary Jo Wiseman

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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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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

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From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. This is not smart. This is not smart. Every career has certain core fundamental skills. They are the foundation on which everything else is built.

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Ep 288: Nancy Nachman on Finding and Contracting Hotels for Offsite Meetings

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And, it bothered Nancy that the hotels were going to let down her executive assistant clients, who were responsible for planning a nearly perfect meeting. Also, check out the companion study guide, The Leader Assistant Workbook , to dig deeper.

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What is a Meeting Planner Exactly?

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Develop the best format for the “ Overall Meeting Action Plan ” and just do it. There is a template for this document in my book by the way.). You should send out the meeting notes along with a draft of what your understanding of the “PLAN ” is and ask for feedback. The post What is a Meeting Planner Exactly?

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Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

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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. Level of meetings: high-level meeting with high-level prep; low-level meetings with minor preparation time? COGNITIVE task!

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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

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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. Can you really fit in another meeting on Wednesday? Are you being practical about meeting scheduling?