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Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

Office Dynamics

But now that I am the executive involved in numerous meetings, I can tell you what really is important. You must keep these things in mind when you are managing your executive’s calendar. Calendar management is an important skill. Meeting planning is a cognitive task. This week’s schedule How many meetings?

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications.

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Calendar "ah ha"

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 January, 2010 Calendar "ah ha" I was participating in a Harvard sponsored webinar with my boss the other day. One of the things they recommended to executives was to use their electronic calendar to leave themselves reminders. . -- Wait a minute! I guess he thought I needed the help.

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Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings

Office Dynamics

Transfer action items to follow-up lists, calendars, and “to-do” folder. Send recap of meeting or minutes. Update your calendar with future meeting dates. If you want to dig deep into meeting planning and execution, I’m hosting a live e-course Tuesday, February 20 at 10:00 am PT. Send thank you notes.

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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

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. You would: Take into consideration your executive’s travel.

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How Assistants Can Save Time and Be More Efficient

Office Dynamics

o Calendaring. Use the P-O-S-T method for strategic calendar planning/invitations. Meeting planning template- yearly with six month check-in. Print calendar and prepare meeting folders for the next day. Manage priorities. Make To-Do lists. Social Media. Yammer groups for problem solving. Lotus Notes.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Let’s use meeting and event planning as our example, and focus on creating a system for planning monthly staff meetings. When you’re planning a staff meeting, what do you do and in what order? Review calendars and compile date and time options. Review calendars and compile date and time options.

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