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    5 Steps to Becoming More Strategic When Planning Meetings

    Not enough Executive Assistants (EAs) connect their day-to-day responsibilities with their company’s wider strategy or goals, but this is often an oversight—especially when one of EA’s key responsibilities is planning in-person meetings. As...

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    Hidden Costs to Consider When Planning In-Person Meetings

    There are many hidden costs to organizing in-person meetings—and we’re not just talking about financial costs. As an Executive Assistant (EA...
    ChatGPT Prompts to Help Executive Assistants With Meeting Planning
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    7 ChatGPT Prompts to Help Executive Assistants With Meeting Planning

    As an Executive Assistant (EA) or meeting planner, you often have to juggle multiple stakeholders, requests, tools, and responsibilities—so ...
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    4 Expert Small Meeting Predictions for 2025

    Business meeting trends are evolving in 2025, and the role of simple and small in-person meetings continues to grow in significance within o...
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    How to Define Your Meeting Objectives

    Defining an overarching objective, or goal, of a meeting is arguably the most important step of meeting planning. Objectives not only help u...