Becoming better organized
I just finished a busy few months leading up to our Board of Directors meeting and it went very smoothly. I love it when things fall into place, but that doesn't happen without a lot of planning. To get ready the first thing I do is populate my to-do list with the tasks I need to do leading up to the event. I go through my checklist of what I will need to bring to the venue, anything I need to remember to include in the meeting package and just about anything that doesn't fit goes on my catchall list. I prepare meeting templates for all the meetings I will need to take minutes at and fill it in as much as possible beforehand from the agenda. Having meeting templates is such a timesaver, even though it does take a few minutes to create each time, but well worth the effort. For those who have never tried it, the meeting template is just your agenda, turned into a minute template. You know what items you will be dealing with, so you can pre-populate the minute template and