Meetings are ... when‚ Minutes are kept‚ and Hours are wasted ! Managing Effective Meetings Mario Fonseka FCMA‚ Dip. M (UK)‚ FSCMA‚ MBA (Merit) Group Discussion: What are the Critical Aspects to ‘focus’ on‚ if one is to conduct an effective meeting ? Key Areas for a Successful Meeting • Why meet ? Is a meeting essential ? • Planning the meeting • Role and importance of an ‘Agenda’ • Role of the ‘Chair’ of the meeting • Making ‘Minutes’ more meaningful and useful • Encouraging member
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Introduction 1. Business meetings and oral communication The business meeting is a form of in-company oral communication. Many meetings take place in business today. They are a very important way of enabling information‚ ideas‚ suggestions‚ proposals made and decisions to be shared. The task of organising and preparing‚ recording the meetings‚ is one of the major functions of a secretary. Meetings are an important setting for oral communication and are used for a variety
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Conduct Meetings Assessment task 2 Name of business: Dazzling Photography Description of business: Photography business specializing in: Weddings‚ Newborn photography‚ Family portraits and studio design. We also offer photo editing and collages. Number of employee’s in the workplace: 12 Meeting Purpose: A meeting to agree on where to go on the company business retreat (Melbourne‚ Noosa or Fiji) Organisational requirements Meeting minutes must be captured Meeting must start and finish on time Must
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CSEC_M01.QXD:IC8235 ch01.qxd chapter 19/6/09 09:44 Page 3 1 The role of the company secretary contents 1 Requirement to appoint a company secretary 2 The secretary and the board 5 Liabilities Core duties of a company secretary 3 4 Appointment and removal from office learning outcomes As an officer of the company at the centre of the decision-making process‚ the company secretary is in a powerful position. He should assist and guide the board in
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Article 32 TARGET COSTING FOR NEW-PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: PRODUCTLEVEL TARGET COSTING Robin Cooper and Regine Slagmulder Editors’ Note: This article is an updated synthesis of in-depth explorations contained in Target Costing and Value Engineering‚ by Robin Cooper and Regine Slagmulder (Portland‚ Oregon: Productivity Press‚ 1997). Part two of the series discusses product-level target costing; part three‚ to be featured in an upcoming issue‚ will address component-level target costing. tomers. Consequently
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On October 10th‚ 2006 I attended the 8th district’s community outreach meeting at the Eastern Patrol Station of the Chicago Metro Police Station at 7:00 P.M.. The room where the meeting was being held was half of a larger room which is divided into two by a movable wall in the center. When I arrived there were about 8 or 9 other individuals‚ all of which were black females over the age of 60. Right away I felt out of place in the room and they knew I wasn’t part of the district. One of the women
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Manage meetings Task 1 Action plan On 05/07/2013‚ Robert Sean‚ the CEO needs to contact the fire station and invite them to the meeting. Fees and available date must be identified. On 06/07/2013‚ Cherry Lu‚ the marketing manager needs to contact Deakin University to rent the room for the meeting. Fees and available date must be identified. On 08/07/2013‚ Peter Chen‚ the production manager needs to design and point out enough meeting papers for participants. On 09/07/2013‚ Damn Lee‚ the purchasing
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AA Meeting After reading and hearing about everyone’s experience with alcohol I decided to attend an AA meeting. I chose this for two reasons‚ one because I wanted to see if these meeting are effective and second because after hearing everyone’s stories I began to doubt myself. I consider myself a social drinker because I like to go out and party mostly every weekend. After learning so much about alcohol I started to wonder if I depended on it in order to have fun. Honestly it is quite scary to
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Virtual Meeting Scenario Virtual Meeting Scenario In the past‚ a meeting for many global companies and organizations with largely distributed partakers was challenging. For example‚ previously if a company called a meeting and attendees were in different locations‚ the business would either fly those in attendance to a central location‚ or hold conference calls. Today companies take advantage of technology by holding virtual meetings. According to Educause Learning Initiative “A virtual meeting
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Assignment #3 HRM 530 – Strategic Human Resources Management Dismissal Meeting 1. Propose three (3) ways that a manager can cope with any negative emotions that may accompany an employee layoff. When the economy — or a company’s business — goes south‚ the quickest way a company can chop its costs is by laying off its employees. It’s never popular and often companies will try other cost-cutting measures long before they have to cut workers‚ but if you’re among those who get the pink slip
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