4 products to help you beat jet lag
On business trips, you and your boss need to hit the ground running, but jet lag can slow you down. Here are four products that can help you arrive refreshed and ready to roll.
Category: Meeting Management
Should you take notes in meetings electronically?
For some people, a computer will never replace a pen and paper for note-taking during meetings. But for others, electronic notes may make more sense, especially if they have to share them electronically anyway. Here are three questions to determine which way is best.
4 tips to help travelers beat bed bugs
There are a lot of worries that come with life on the road and one of the most common today is the fear of bringing home bed bugs, says Forbes contributor and frequent traveler Katie Kelly Bell. Getting rid of a bed bug infestation can cost hundreds of dollars, but bed bug elimination professionals ThermaPro have advice for keeping them out in the first place.
Quick Parts meeting management
If you frequently use the same words, phrases or paragraphs, you probably open up old meeting notices or emails to copy and paste. With Outlook 2010’s Quick Parts, you essentially have a permanent clipboard. For example, say you have specific language that you use for mandatory meetings. Here’s what to do.
Power secrets of frequent travelers
When the electricity goes out or gets scarce, frequent business travelers like your boss know all the top tricks to power up, discovered freelance journalist Jane L. Levere.
Get a great deal on your meeting space
If you want to get the most for your money when booking meeting or event space, you need to negotiate, says Anthony Coyle-Dowling. Don’t just accept the price you’ve always paid for the place you usually use or take the first price you’re quoted at a new location.
Power tools of frequent travelers
Business travel can be tough, but it’s a lot easier when you pack the right accessories for the journey. Find all the tools, tricks and apps to keep life running on the road.
Executive travel: What to do when a boss’s plans go awry
No matter how much effort you put into creating a travel plan for your boss, something can go wrong at the last minute. Julie Perrine, All Things Admin, has five possible solutions for sticky travel situations.
Let Outlook help prep meeting attendees
Let’s say you have a meeting scheduled to discuss resolving customer complaints. To prepare for the meeting, attendees search their inboxes and network drives to find related files they’ll need to begin visualizing a process. By inserting some of these objects into the meeting notice, you can help attendees better prepare for the meeting.
Peppered with questions? Here’s an answer
If dozens of daily interruptions siphon away your time, a series of Lunch ānā Learns might be the solution.