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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. Seems overwhelming doesn’t it? 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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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. Words to describe left-brain thinking are: Logic Order Structure Scientific Rules Analytical Methodical.

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Administrative Assistants Broaden Your Skillset

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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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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

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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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What is a Meeting Planner Exactly?

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Mary Jo Wiseman, CMP | Author, “The Meeting Planning Process: A Guide to Planning Successful Meetings ” | [link]. The Meeting Planning Process — A Guide to Planning Successful Meetings. The post What is a Meeting Planner Exactly? Get your copy today!

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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. The post Calendar Management for Executive Assistants appeared first on Office Dynamics - Executive And Administrative Assistant Training.

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