Tag: minutes
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Join me this Wednesday if you’d like to build both confidence and skills
… in preparing minutes It’s my experience that assistants are generally in one of three camps when it comes to recording meetings. Some lack confidence and find it challenging to identify what and…
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Let’s talk about minutes
It takes insight and skill to prepare quality minutes … and many assistants find recording meetings challenging. Sometimes it’s a question of how much or little to record. Perhaps it’s…
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Weekend Poll Results: Setting Boundaries
With thanks to all who participated in my latest Weekend Poll, we’re looking at whether assistants maintain or blur boundaries between their business and personal lives. This is the fourth…
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Weekend Poll Results: The state of minutes in 2019
With thanks to all who participated in my latest Weekend Poll, here are your responses to my questions associated with all those hours you spend on minutes! Minutes are part…
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Podcast: Minutes – How to Own Your Role As A Recorder
Do your sit silently through meetings you record? … or are you empowered to speak up appropriately? Simply click below to listen at your convenience Want to access all my…
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Weekend Poll Results: How Your Offices Would Cope if You Moved On
Thanks to all who participated in my latest Weekend Poll. This weekend’s question: Succession Planning: What if You Left Your Role? The results of my latest Weekend Poll suggest that there’s…
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Weekend Poll Results: Perks of the Job
Thanks to all who participated in my latest weekend poll. This weekend’s question: What kind of perks are available to you through your workplace? Read on to see the different types…
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Weekend Poll Results: Succession Planning for Assistants
Thanks to all who participated in my latest weekend poll. This weekend’s question: Succession Planning: What if You Left Your Role? No one is irreplaceable, but has your management team thought…
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Weekend Poll Results: How Readers Are Doing With Minutes
Thanks to all who participated in my latest weekend poll. This weekend’s question: Minutes: How Do They Consume Your Working Hours? Read on to see what your peers had to say,…
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Finding Your Voice in Meetings
Hands up, please, everyone who loves preparing minutes. If you enjoy all aspects of recording meetings, and are good at it, then that’s worth celebrating and your employer should value…
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Deconstructing Your Minutes: Shelagh Revisits Core Principles
A note for those of you reading this article in the 2020s: I wrote this article back in April 2014. While I’ve since updated the photo accompanying it, the principles…
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Happiness
Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony. – Thomas Merton
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Change
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. – Carl Bard
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Joy
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift. – Albert Einstein
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Reality Check
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. – J. K. Rowling
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Groupthink
Great minds think alike … and fools seldom differ. – William O. Magner
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Failure
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour. – Truman Capote
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Never Give Up
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. – Babe Ruth