Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Office Fridge Etiquette By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Filed Under: D o you bring your food to work? Heres an article I recently found on office fridge etiquette. Heres an excerpt on the article: Do not eat or drink foods that do not belong to you.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Email is no longer just for personal use, with all our accepted short forms: LOL, U, GB and a co-worker's favourite, OMG! Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business email. 1 Be Courteous With Email Are you There? Jane Watson of J. This is a great tip from Jane Watson of J.

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Success

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In a world of Google Docs and learning Zoom etiquette , pen-and-paper to-do lists leave a lot to be desired. All those articles you read and videos you watch every day wreck your ability to get things done. This app allows you to save any article, video or other piece of content from any app in one central place to read or watch later.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Cubicle Etiquette 101 By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 01, 2007 Filed Under: Office Gossip , Productivity D o you find that your colleagues are hovering around you when youre on the phone? If you would like more tips such as these, please read my articles on gossiping in the workplace.

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The Office Professionals Place

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Monday, October 19, 2009 Choose Your Method of Communication Effectively – Email, Phone, In-person, “Snail&# Mail/Memos Have you ever received an email from someone who just started at the company asking you to do something and you haven’t been introduced? DO use email for informational purposes (i.e.

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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. Try to respond to emails within 24 hours.

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On The Job

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Gobbling away on the chips is not only distracting with your bag-rustling and your crunching but is seen as a breach of office etiquette. Then don't be surprised if colleagues don't invite you to participate in an important client dinner or fire emails around the office detailing your boorish ways. All because of those pork rinds.

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Office Dynamics

MAY 27, 2014

In his article for CIO.com, Chuck Martin quoted a manager who described face-to-face communication this way: “We need to take vacations from our BlackBerries, computers and voice-mail and get out and talk to everyone in the organization. Civic figure? Select Media. Voice mail. Face-to-face. Instant messaging. Internal correspondence.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

If a coworker is coughing or sneezing, communicate via email or telephone so you don''t have to come into close contact with the person. You should also ask if you can create an office policy to address flu season etiquette. Nancy Anderson is the communities and article Editor for Beyond.com.

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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. That way the reader can relax and continue to read the email knowing you are not shouting at them. Jane Watson of J. This is a great tip from Jane Watson of J.

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Professional Assistant Blog

APRIL 24, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Blogging Here and There - Part 2 By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, April 24, 2008 Filed Under: A s you may have noticed, I havent been posting any articles for quite some time now. I will try to post articles when I get a chance, but it will be quite infrequent.

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Make or Break Moments

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

That’s why one of the feature articles in the recent Manta Sales newsletter caught my eye. The article is entitled 6 Ways to Build Rapport but it starts with a story in which the author, Larry Prevost fails to build rapport because he is trying to do too many things at once.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 22, 2012

Communicating professionally is an essential part of workplace etiquette. Build your professional communication skills by reading the following articles: How to Ask for What You Want, Need and Deserve at Work. Email this to a friend? But how you communicate with co-workers and superiors can truly make or break your career.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 13, 2010

I wrote an article called We Dont Know What We Dont Know. I think the first reason is what I put in my original article. I had no idea this could be done, but I was thrilled when I got her email, but it just proved to me once again that we are all holding on to things we take for granted that others know about.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2007

Heres an interesting article I found about how most employees would rather get stuck in traffic jams rather than relocate to a new home or job. Heres another article on working too much: Working to Live or Living to Work? Most people would rather commute for a longer period of time due to family reasons.

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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. If you have any questions/comment feel free to email me at matt[a]kallout.com.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, November 03, 2008 Filed Under: Networking , Organize , Productivity D o you find articles on this site intriguing? You can also use these services to organize yourself by adding "tags" or keywords to the articles that youve saved. Home About Me Advertise Organize With Social Bookmarking!

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 22, 2016

The How and Why of Creating a Career Portfolio (Executive Secretary Magazine Article). We are sending information about this in an email to everyone who was part of the webinar. Mastering Exceptional Self-Leadership Online Learning Program (Recorded 2-day learning event). Career Portfolio Resources.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 15, 2009

Other times we will be talking and I notice his eyes moving to his BlackBerry and I will see he is no longer paying attention to me, but reading emails instead. Here is some common-sense etiquette: Screen your calls: Subscribe to call display. However, I think our etiquette hasnt caught up with the technology. 23, 1 p.m. (for

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Heres an article I found on a fellow Administrative Assistants website for some great uses. If you are looking to take sticky notes to a new level, you can read more information about it on this article. It even covers electronic sticky notes. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2008

If youre looking for more ways to be productive, take a look at my large library of articles on productivity. So the next time your boss asks you to do something around 4:30 pm, let them know that you will try to get it done quickly, but it not be your best work, as this article states. will do you wonders as well. Whats next?

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 22, 2015

It is in regards to an article I had read a while back called: E-mail Overload Costs Companies Billions in Lost Productivity. The average number of e-mails and assistant manages between her/his e-mail and their executive’s email is 225 per day; and about 350 on the high side! And each e-mail takes 1 – 4 steps or more.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

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. Everyone up here calls him Obama and our Prime Minister is called Harper. Why do we not use their full name? Or it is that we just dont know how to address them so revert to last names?

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Heres an article I found on this issue, which shows quite a few peoples e-mails about some of these very problems. Do they end up talking loud on the phone while you are trying to do some work? Are you being bombarded with people walking up to your cubicle and dont have the decency to see that you are busy?

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2008

There are over 200 articles of information so far and growing. I have been running this blog for just over a year now and it has grown quite a bit, as you can tell. People have been asking me questions from time to time and I try to respond as quickly as I can to all of them.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

I wrote the article The Art of Minute Taking and I had only taken minutes a few times about 25 years ago. From writing that article I had confidence to take a job that required me taking minutes and it has turned out fine. I have written many articles on my blog on subjects that I knew nothing about. How did I do it?

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2007

You can read more about using Outlook for tasks in this article. Also, heres a great article about time management. If you cant complete the task that day, move it into the next day. Be weary though, you dont want it to pile up, so remember the 2 - 3 business day rule. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

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. Lets enjoy our day together.© © Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 21 November, 2009 The Little Engine That Could. Have you ever heard of negative and positive self talk ?

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JULY 1, 2010

One person can be great at software programs and know all sorts of tricks to get things done quickly and another might be excellent at organizing and managing their email account. .© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 2 July, 2010 We dont know what we dont know We really dont know what we dont know do we?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 25, 2011

I make sure that I send an email to the contacts I met and set up coffee meetings to make a better connection with the ones that I am most interested in pursuing further. Next I import them into IContact and send them a nice to meet you eMail. I immediately schedule a follow-up call &/or email, and send a card with SendOutCards.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 9, 2010

You won’t make any friends in business if you don’t respect the basic rules of etiquette, and this is certainly one of the most important. I’m working on writing a long article that outlines my entire career so you’ll soon see what I’m talking about. Good article, Chrissy. Send me an email and we’ll chat.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Posted by Patricia Robb at 6:13 PM Labels: Administrative Assistant , etiquette for addressing officials , professional assistant Reactions: 2comments: Carol Bory said. Another helpful site I refer to for protocol on addressing officials is www.formsofaddress.info. (for

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 10, 2008

In my weekly recap last Friday I pointed out a Lifehack.org article arguing that the current climate for hyper-productivity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. By The Professional Assistant on Monday, March 10, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by James of Organize IT.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 17, 2010

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 17 April, 2010 Keeping focussed in a busy environment There are so many distractions in the office -- the telephone, your co-workers, email and your boss! Lets enjoy our day together.© How can you keep focussed when there is just so much going on? Having a to-do list can be a life saver.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 5, 2010

If you have to reschedule, send an email apologizing, but advise that your bosss schedule has changed. I like this particular article it gives me an additional input in the information a round the world. Usually when I point out the conflict to my boss, he is more than willing to make the change. April 09, 2010 Jakob said.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2007

If you read my recent article on blogging at work, read on. Home About Me Advertise Blogging Tips for Company Blogs By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Filed Under: Client Service , Productivity D o you blog for your company? Do you feel like you want to voice your opinion about other topics?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 20, 2010

You hear something while walking down the hall or are copied on an email and know something about the purpose of a meeting coming up. Many times I am so thankful I had that quick chat or read that email that I was copied on as that was the exact information I needed when they were away. (for

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