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Improve Communication

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with 7 Tips for Effective Email There is something about e-mail that fosters poor communication habits. Users see it as a form of instant communication and therefore, doesn’t require the same care and attention that a letter might. Develop at set of personal rules for processing your email in a productive way.

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Five Tips for Great Speeches

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Organize a simple outline – Some variation on the following three points will always form a coherent presentation: This is where I was. Comment by Greg on May 24, 2010 @ 11:53 am Trackbacks links for 2007-12-09 | The TDogs Blog Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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The 12 Privacy Tips of Christmas

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With increased commercial activity during the holiday season of the year, it is a good idea to be extra careful to guard againstidentity theft. Ask to use other forms of identification. Six of the tips are for consumers and the other six for merchants. Six points for consumers : Ask how personal information (eg. Thanks for showing it.

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A Telephone Etiquette Test

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While forms of technology are making inroads into the communication process, the telephone is still an important source of contact with people. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap A Telephone Etiquette Test Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on May 28, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

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2 Measures of effective productivity systems…

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There are people that make getting ready to get things done an art form. Comments Trackbacks Thirty Days » Blog Archive » Monday Link-Fest Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! I learned from my mother. How do you know if the system is working?

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How to be an Effective Mentor

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The successful protégé -mentor cycle requires that the protégé move on and the relationship either ends ortakes a different form. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! .� Be prepared for the relationship to end. Comments No comments yet.

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8 Work-Life Balance Myths

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Different people need different forms of flexibility at different points in their lives (i.e., I went into total culture shock when I was handed a TSA US employee manual that told me when I’d eat lunch, when I’d take break, and which 12 days a year could be chosen for my “floating holiday.&#

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