article thumbnail

45 Professional Development Books to Level Up Your Career and Your Life

Success

In a world with countless ways to level up your professional development, books are one of the most underestimated tools. If so, then this is a great book to pick up today. So don’t give up on that air guitar just yet. Maybe you’re there right now. Lewis has been in your shoes; it’s why he wrote When to Jump.

UPS 218
article thumbnail

Someone was having a Bad Day.

Laughing all the Way to Work

An assistant sent me and other recipients an e-mail proposing a date for a meeting. She tried a third time and proposed a new date for the meeting, but when I checked to see if my boss was available that day, I noticed it was a Saturday. Here are a few good tips from the E-mail Etiquette Matters blog when using Reply to All.

Etiquette 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Minute Taking Q&A

Laughing all the Way to Work

Directors are to follow up with their teams and report back on any budget implications. He said/She said Etiquette As I mentioned above, minutes are not a he said/she said recording, but at times what the Chair says should be recorded. I would record it as follows: 1. Discussion ensued.

Agenda 100
article thumbnail

Rejection

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I wanted to dedicate a post on proper rejection etiquette when you are the one having to tell bad news to someone. You’ll find that in your career you’ll have to hire people, a vendor, or ask people to carve out time of their busy lives to create a bid, proposal, or do research for you.

Gifts 40
article thumbnail

Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Book Review: Exceeding Customer.

Service Untitled

We’ll Pick You Up.&# Employees were to apologize and find out what the customer wanted to make them feel better, and propose a solution. The book emphasizes that satisfying customers is not complicated. Regularly surveying customers, but keeping questions targeted to one specific area could evaluate the company’s progress.

article thumbnail

Bioteams Part 1: The Team Leadership Zone

BioTeams

What emerged as being critical is the realization of Virtually Networked Team’s strong character and dynamic nature, almost as it would be a separate entity from the members making it up. Speed enables living animals to move to more powerful positions further up their ecosystem. Nature’s teams subjugate everything to speed.

Medical 52