Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Tips for Office Costumes at Halloween By The Professional Assistant on Friday, October 31, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity H appy Halloween everyone! Luckily, in my office, we dress in casual clothes all of the time and we do have a corporate policy of being able to dress up in a costume for this event.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

There are several ways to minimize your risk of getting sick this flu season, so follow these tips to avoid reduced productivity and days off work. You should also ask if you can create an office policy to address flu season etiquette. These tips will keep everyone in your office as productive as possible during flu season.

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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. The example of how it could be misconstrued wasn’t helpful to you, but nonetheless, what she was saying was, “My focus is on your social etiquette behavior and I am pointing it out to you.” Here are some tips.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 16, 2008

Here are Some Good-Sense E-mail Etiquette Tips E-mail Salutations: Although e-mail is less formal than writing a letter it is still polite to open with a greeting. This is a great tip from Jane Watson of J. Tip for filing e-mails: If it is necessary to file a hard copy of the e-mail. Jane Watson of J. Who are you?

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It seemed that being the ‘go to’ person meant I should be up to speed on company policies and procedures, office etiquette and in-house systems as soon as I started. So whether you are an Administrator, Executive Assistant or Personal Assistant here are some of my top tips straight from the ‘I wish I had known sooner’ mouth.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Here are Some Good-Sense E-mail Etiquette Tips E-mail Salutations: Although e-mail is less formal than writing a letter it is still polite to open with a greeting. Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business e-mail. This is a great tip from Jane Watson of J. Jane Watson of J.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2008

You can purge the files as needed, depending on your companys situation and/or policy. Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 1 comments for this post rosytorn Call logging, plays a major in keeping a record of the transactions made over the telephone. So try creating a spreadsheet yourself and let me know how it works out for you.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 6, 2009

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 requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. and hopefully, they have supportive procedures and policies in place to help them."

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The Office Professionals Place

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Phone etiquette is important, remember to leave your name and phone number twice when leaving a voicemail- once at the beginning and then at the end of the call. DO NOT leave a voicemail longer than a 1 or 1 ½ min. If there are large amounts of detail in the message it would be best to speak to the person directly or in person.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Liberal return policy. B&H isn’t the only retail store that has a very liberal return policy (see this post on Nordstrom). A liberal return policy represents a desire to keep customers loyal to the company in the long run instead of just making money off of them in the short run.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

And finally, one of the basic customer service policies is to accept blame, apologize to the consumer, and correct the mistake immediately. How many passengers have waited around airport lounges extra time only to see pilots and support staff arriving late? And if they leave on time, they get brownie points for early arrival.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Stay away from the customer service representative who makes too many exceptions, is inconsistent with company policy, practices, and procedures. Ineffective interactions will result in inconsistent policies among other customer service agents, and it is sure to create chaos. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’d appreciate if you didn’t charge for shipping, and if you have a really easy return policy too. 9 Practical Customer Service Tips There’s no one immune from receiving lousy customer service. Otherwise, great tips! Make my shopping experience easy. If I’m on your website, make it user-friendly for me.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Octopus etiquette, indeed. 8 Tips for Keeping Customers Happy on Your Site Reply FitJerks Fitness Blog ( @fitjerk ) November 23, 2009 at 8:30 pm @Ed You’re going about this the wrong way… all I picked up from that was “sell sell sell&# no where did I see you say you wanted to “connect&# with “people&#.

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Success

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Company policy that works best will be directly tied to company values. He adds their HR department is ready and willing with an open-door policy to help with disputes or resolution. Update your policies and procedures It’s time to bust out that dusty handbook (which is hopefully not in actual book form anymore).

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