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Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

Office Dynamics

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. You must think about the time commitment related to each meeting. Did he/she travel? This week’s schedule How many meetings?

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

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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

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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. Not only did I set the meetings up, but I also took notes (in shorthand no less), transcribed the notes and prepared final reports for dissemination. Get Your Copy Today!

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Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings

Office Dynamics

The reasons meetings. have increased are due in part to the rise in teams and requisite team meetings and technology such as video-conferencing accommodating slashed travel budgets. Approximately 11 million meetings occur in the U.S. The post Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings appeared first on Office Dynamics.

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: The Organized Admin with Julie Perrine

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Meetings/Events. Travel Planning. So I wanted to provide a plan of action for these assistants that would help them get and stay organized. Travel Planning. Event/Meeting Planning. Travel Planning Example: Your travel planning system involves lots of different forms, templates, and checklists.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Laughing all the Way to Work

Administrative Assistants have a list of things they specialize in including business writing, proofreading, minute taking, meeting planning, travel agent, desktop publishing, editing, public relations and client liaison to name a few.

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