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How to Plan a Working Vacation

Success

Prep for your working vacation Inform any partners, clients and colleagues of your travel plans and only commit to the most important meetings while you are away. If you’re traveling to a different time zone, always double check your calendar to make sure any meeting times are correctly noted.

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8 Tools To Help Build An Efficient Asynchronous Workflow

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Slack boasts that using the app reduces emails by 32% and meetings by 27%, which could be a major benefit for teams looking to cut down on unproductive activities. The Microsoft Teams app gained major traction throughout the years of 2020 and 2022, rising from 75 million daily active users to 280 million in this two-year time span.

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Guidelines for Effective Email Writing

Jen Lawrence

One of the biggest complaints in today’s modern communications is there are too many emails. Thirty more emails. You’ve read an email and thrown your hands up asking, “What the hell do you want? You may be sending emails that cause this anguish and frustration. Not Every Email is Urgent.

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Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 28, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , Travel D o you need to book meetings for your manager(s), but most meetings are all over the country or even internationally?

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Too much information.

Laughing all the Way to Work

© 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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Kallout To Research Information

Professional Assistant Blog

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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Time Saving versus Bending Over Backwards

Office Organization Success

Getting clients to self-schedule is such a HUGE time-saver as it eliminates the back and forth of emails. They then compare their schedule to your availability and when they find a suitable time slot they will go ahead and book that time with you. See what a huge time-saver it is! My answer was a big NO-NO!