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The Administrative Professional’s Guide to Modern Meeting Excellence

Manage the full meeting lifecycle with more confidence, whether you’re hosting, attending, or supporting an executive who’s in meetings all day without you. Joan Burge’s professional digital guide shows you how to prepare your executive, anticipate problems, capture decisions and commitments, and follow through so nothing falls through the cracks.

Includes the BONUS 17-page Executive Meeting Support Toolkit with 8 ready-to-use tools.
PDF format. Instant download.

Original price was: $39.95.Current price is: $29.95.

Go Beyond Meeting Logistics

Meetings create far more work than what shows up on the calendar. This guide helps administrative professionals think through everything surrounding a meeting: why it matters, what your executive needs beforehand, what could get in the way, what was decided, and what needs to happen next. It covers both sides of your meeting world, when you’re the attendee or host and when you’re supporting your executive, including the many meetings you never attend.

What’s Inside the Guide

  • The Modern Meeting Environment: Hybrid meetings, faster executive schedules, distributed teams, information overload, and AI.
  • Meeting Management Is a Thinking Skill: How to mentally walk through a meeting, spot barriers, and prepare a Plan B.
  • Part One: When You Are the Attendee or Host: Prepare, contribute, capture your own commitments, and follow through.
  • Part Two: Supporting Your Executive’s Meetings: The three phases of Modern Meeting Excellence.
    • Pre-Meeting: Think. Plan. Prepare. Anticipate.
    • Meeting Proper: Participate. Support. Observe. Adapt.
    • Post-Meeting: Capture. Follow Through. Debrief. Close the Loop.
  • The Next-Day Executive-Assistant Debrief: Use yesterday’s calendar to capture the decisions, commitments, and deadlines your executive’s meetings created.

Reflection questions and note space throughout help you apply each idea to your own work.

BONUS: Executive Meeting Support Toolkit

Your purchase includes a 17-page digital companion with 8 practical tools:

  1. Executive Meeting Planning Worksheet
  2. Pre-Meeting Planning Checklist
  3. Executive Meeting Brief
  4. Meeting Proper Support Checklist
  5. Post-Meeting Action Capture
  6. Next-Day Executive Meeting Debrief
  7. Executive Commitment Tracker
  8. Meeting Manager’s Final Check

About the Author

Joan Burge spent 20 years as an administrative professional supporting executives and their meetings. For the past 36 years, as Founder and CEO of Office Dynamics International, she’s led meetings from the executive side and trained administrative professionals at organizations across industries, including many Fortune 500 companies.

Product Details

  • Format: PDF, instant download
  • Includes: Professional Digital Guide + BONUS 17-page Executive Meeting Support Toolkit
  • License: Personal use by the original purchaser
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