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The 3-Sentence Email Guaranteed to Get a Response

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If your real goal is a phone call, don’t ask, “Could we have a phone call some time?” a good time for me to call your office for a quick 8-minute chat?”. This sentence tells Clargley you respect her time, are willing to do the time-zone math, and all she needs to do is pick up the phone.

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How to Avoid Burnouts While Working at Home

The Marq

If an urgent and important matter comes up, I take care of it. My goal for the routine is to get 20% of all activities done that are the most valuable, assuming that 20% gives me 80% of the benefits for achieving what I want (the Pareto Principle - Wikipedia link). These are the tasks that are meant to get me closer to my goals.

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When your boss arranges meetings behind your back.

Laughing all the Way to Work

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets He will have a quick conversation with a staff member and set up a meeting, but not tell me anything about it. I like this particular article it gives me an additional input in the information a round the world.

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Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint?

Laughing all the Way to Work

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets After reading the article on the "remote clicker", which is what I used to call it, I asked John in the cubicle beside me. 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Admin Buddies

Laughing all the Way to Work

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets It works well when it is a co-worker who sits closest to you, but depending on how your office is set up that might not be possible. It is also amazing how much we pick up from our co-workers during the day.

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Playing nice in the sandbox

Laughing all the Way to Work

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets They know that once the issue is resolved, they will then have to scramble to make up for lost time with the person causing the slow down seemingly unaware that what they are doing is hindering everyone else.

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The Little Engine That Could.

Laughing all the Way to Work

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I just recently read an article on it and was surprised when I really paid attention to the messages I was sending myself that some of them were negative. This is the time you need a lot of positive self talk.