Office Dynamics

JUNE 27, 2012

The results led to our first “ Email etiquette ” story. The “oops” factor: If you need more than two paragraphs to cover your topic, you’re better off using the phone, or attaching a Word* file. Bonus fix: Using a separate field indicator (“Flag for Follow-up”) is better than pre-fixing subjects with “AR”.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 7 November, 2009 Too much information. Do you have a question or do you want to pass information along to the person. Does it require any further information or explanation? For example, "Please send me the following information: - A photocopy of Ms. Too much information.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Kallout To Research Information By The Professional Assistant on Monday, October 20, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Productivity , Research Y ou’re reading an article for some research that you are doing for our boss. You come across a piece of text that you are unfamiliar with.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 4, 2014

Remember your etiquette in all settings is vital, even when they are “virtual” settings! Many companies are now sponsoring company-wide intranet sites like Yammer to encourage collaborative work and information exchange among employee groups. I scan the ‘feed’ to learn tips and information on a variety of topics, including tech.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 4, 2014

Remember your etiquette in all settings is vital, even when they are “virtual” settings! Many companies are now sponsoring company-wide intranet sites like Yammer to encourage collaborative work and information exchange among employee groups. I scan the ‘feed’ to learn tips and information on a variety of topics, including tech.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 4, 2014

Remember your etiquette in all settings is vital, even when they are “virtual” settings! Many companies are now sponsoring company-wide intranet sites like Yammer to encourage collaborative work and information exchange among employee groups. I scan the ‘feed’ to learn tips and information on a variety of topics, including tech.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 4, 2014

Remember your etiquette in all settings is vital, even when they are “virtual” settings! Many companies are now sponsoring company-wide intranet sites like Yammer to encourage collaborative work and information exchange among employee groups. I scan the ‘feed’ to learn tips and information on a variety of topics, including tech.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 4, 2014

Remember your etiquette in all settings is vital, even when they are “virtual” settings! Many companies are now sponsoring company-wide intranet sites like Yammer to encourage collaborative work and information exchange among employee groups. I scan the ‘feed’ to learn tips and information on a variety of topics, including tech.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With the increasing use of email as the first choice for business correspondence it opens a whole new world of dos and don'ts for the assistant.Here are Some Good-Sense Email Etiquette Tips: Email Salutations: Although email is less formal than writing a letter it is still polite to open with a greeting. Who are you?

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 23, 2015

Pick up the phone and speak to the person? Should you be formal or informal? Written or e-mailed messages, or quick phone calls, are most effective. Write back and ask for clarification? Craft a carefully worded reply that remains positive and avoids any possible negative interpretation (skirting potential conflict)?

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On The Job

JANUARY 10, 2011

A recent story said that some concerned parents -- and even embarrassed employers -- are paying up to $400 an hour because young workers are committing so many social blunders in professional settings. So, I'm going to save you $400 an hour and give some etiquette pointers that anyone -- of any age -- should take to heart.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Power Up Your PowerPoint With Templates! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 4comments for this post Feng Liang I stumbled upon this corporate presentation template at Cone Trees that I can actually use for my work, it wasnt cheesy types that usually come up in the search, so it thought id share :D.

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Success

JULY 20, 2023

Holding doors, saying “please” and “thank you” and practicing good table manners—most of us are well versed in these common social etiquette behaviors. But as technology and work arrangements evolve, the rules governing workplace communication etiquette may need to do the same. Having to be “always on,” even during off-hours.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JANUARY 8, 2013

For example, I set up a sales dial-in call with about 40 people from every continent on the call. I sat at my kitchen table watching my phone blow up while people were emailing and IM’ing me all at the same time wanting to know why they couldn’t get on the call. Any books or reading up on this would be helpful too please.

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On The Job

AUGUST 23, 2010

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, August 23, 2010 7 Tips for Getting Off to a Great Start in a New Job Its a tough time to be entering the workforce. Answer the phone correctly. "Yo!" is not the proper way.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 4, 2022

An example would be call centers, where employee phone calls and voicemails were recorded and closely monitored to ensure their quality and efficiency. Post-COVID-19, many employee tracking software programs started popping up, allowing companies to track employee productivity , computer activity, emails, and even individual keystrokes.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 15, 2009

The space crew had a robot that waved its mechanical arms and yelled, "Warning, Warning, alien approaching" or such other thing to protect and inform the crew. Sometimes I wish I had something to warn me when I am with someone with a cell phone so I can know that we are going to be interrupted. Apparently not, when its by phone.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MARCH 22, 2013

Hello Readers - 8 months ago, a reader asked me a question about fraternization and social etiquette at work. I invited half a dozen people but the word spread like wildfire and almost the entire product and engineering team showed up a little after 5:30pm. I originally just invited six people, but about thirty+ showed up.

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On The Job

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

My cell phone reception is lousy in this part of the city." "OK, Phone disconnects. I've interviewed hundreds of people over the phone as a journalist, and I've been on the other end as I was interviewed over the phone for magazines, newspapers, radio and television. Avoid cell phones. Sure.prob.lots of." "Mr.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 4, 2008

I called someone on their business phone and their voicemail greeting said, “Leave a message and I’ll get right back to you”, but they didn’t identify who they were. I am either on the phone or away from my desk at the moment. Leaving a Message One day, my sister picked up her voicemail messages to learn that she had five messages.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 25, 2011

Collecting business cards or other forms of contact information is only the first step in networking.    A while back I wrote How to Waste Time and Lose Money Networking where I shared that follow up is the most important step to networking.  From Clutter To Actionable Information.   :-).

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Does your boss come up to you and ask you to find information on an e-mail that youve received and needs it yesterday? If it isnt, click on it and a new toolbar will pop up. A new window will pop up with results that will populate as the system retrieves this information. Then click on Options, Advanced Find.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 17, 2009

Then you finally do reach a live person and you are so fed up with all of the time wasted, that you start fuming towards the person on the other end of the phone. Would you prefer the client to calmly and rationally give you information on their issue? Now put yourself in that persons shoes. How would you feel?

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Your colleague or boss calls or comes up to you exactly 2 minutes later and asks if youve read it. If its your boss thats asking for this information, make sure to read the e-mail right away. You think to yourself, "What?!? Is this person crazy?!?" Has this ever happened to you? Everyone else falls into the queue afterwards.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 14, 2009

They forget to do their own flight check-in and dont have time, so they call you up and ask you to do it. Some of you might already know the answer to this, but I thought that Id give the information here anyways, since I was stumped in the beginning as well. You scratch your head and wonder how this can be done.

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On The Job

JULY 30, 2009

Labels: cellphone etiquette , texting while driving , workplace manners posted by Anita at 7:43 AM 13 Comments: Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, MRW said. Especially the "I've landed' cell phone calls ;) Would also suggest 'not' multitasking with email, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Care to add to my list? Anita, great post!

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

You can post up to 80 different job sites, such as Workopolis , Monster , CareerBuilder and many more, just with one submission. Resume Rabbit will make all of this disappear.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? There are two ways of backing up your e-mails. This happens to office workers all of the time.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Do you have trouble using the text box feature to place anchored text where you prefer, so that it shows up in a particular area of the page? This will allow you to have a blank sheet in front of you and you can add all the information into each label and then print them off. Click on the Labels tab. As for the text box issue, try: 1.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Creating a filing system can be tricky, as you need to know exactly how to file your files and what type of information you would need to be able to access quickly. Your boss could ask you for something at a moments notice and you are expected to find the information within minutes. I gave in my health card and was asked to be seated.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

You can make the reservation directly through this site and the information gets forwarded over to the restaurant itself. So next time you want to make a reservation via phone, hang it up and try OpenTable.com instead! Then you receive an e-mail with the confirmation of all of this. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 4, 2008

Don’t forget to set up and turn on your “Out of Office Assistant&# on Microsoft Outlook. If you need immediate assistance or information about the (question/issue), please contact (delegate’s name, e-mail address, phone number). Are you going to be out of the office for a short or even long period of time?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 28, 2010

Work With Stephanie « Your Etiquette Practice Could be Killing Your Productivity | Main | 16 Productivity-Enhancing Websites » Grow Your Productivity by Hours a Day Think about this today!  Have you had feelings of guild about slipping up?  Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   What is your 20?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Everyone up here calls him Obama and our Prime Minister is called Harper. What is the proper etiquette when addressing or writing to a President? Here is a video link on the proper etiquette to address a President. Here is a great site for that information. Too much information. Why do we not use their full name?

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In one of my previous jobs, when I was working for an Investment Advisor, he gave me the installation CD-ROM and asked me to read up on how to use it. I am sure that this will beef up your productivity with the system. This same thing happened to me as well as one of my readers.

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