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? Or have you played the popular “phone tag&# game?

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Allwork

JANUARY 24, 2024

For some, a series of email surprises, expensive and time-consuming. Commuting profoundly affects our well-being, and it’s up to us to frame it positively. Is the wifi fast enough to support Wednesday’s peak traffic, and does the office have enough phone booths and meeting rooms for a mixture of focus and collaborative work?

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Success

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Regularly review and update insurance policies to ensure adequate coverage at the best price. Make an effort to reach out to long-lost friends or former colleagues whether it’s a message on social media, an email or a phone call to catch up. Review your insurance plans. Plan for end of life. Reconnect with old friends.

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Recruit CRM

OCTOBER 7, 2020

At some time or the other everyone is supposed to use cold emails. Cold Email Marketing has a response rate of 29% when the email is personalized. Still, cold emails remain one of the best tools to recruit new candidates. Still, cold emails remain one of the best tools to recruit new candidates. Keep it brief.

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Recruit CRM

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The total number of global email users are 3.9 At some time or the other everyone is bound to make use of cold emails. Did you know in 2020, there were approximately 306 billion emails exchanged every day worldwide?! Cold email marketing has a response rate of 29% when the email is personalised. Keep it brief.

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Recruit CRM

OCTOBER 11, 2021

But, unfortunately, there are hundreds of emails and InMails already bombarding your clients and candidates. Most recruitment agencies see an average response rate of 15-20% with cold emails. This means, on average, 2 out of 10 people will respond to your email (which is very low). Read more: Understanding cold emails.

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Success

OCTOBER 28, 2023

If there’s a problem, have an open-door policy and work through it together. We put it on Craigslist, and literally in 12 minutes, we had an email saying, “I want to buy this.” I think he has 40 garbagemen in his phone as “(First Name) Garbage Man.” Our kids only have one childhood, so we’re not going to mess it up.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You might be using a new phone system or dealing with new project management software. The process for ordering office supplies and setting up the conference room for meetings was different. Communication Introduce them to the company’s communication channels and email distribution lists.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 10 Tips for Taking Effective Phone Messages Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on October 14, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Write it down on a piece of paper, preferably a phone-message pad. Make sure you have a working pen and a back up. Thanks for visiting!

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 18, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Using Email Effectively Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on June 18, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. When responding to an email that contains an attachment, use Reply without Attachment(s) option. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 28, 2023

Please help me write a professional email to my boss, the senior managing partner, to ask for funds to attend the Project Management Learning Lab in September. The email should explain why this training is a valuable investment for my organization and the benefits I will receive from attending. But for now, we have to be cautious.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 28, 2016

As a business owner, you’ll want to check in with your remote workers on a pretty regular basis, either through scheduled phone calls or with email updates. These features will also come in handy at work, reducing distractions and allowing telecommuters to get everything done by deadline. Set Clear Expectations.

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Success

AUGUST 12, 2021

The associate is taught one set of company policies while management abides by another. These may include phone or SMS contact information, email and even a physical store or mailing address. Or information about the client—vital to customer service—is up at some other stage of the way. It’s a case of poor management.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The little things we do in the office each day really do add up, according to a new study from Avery UK. Over the course of a working lifetime an office worker will drink an average of 24,684 cups of tea, disagree with colleagues 479 times and send a staggering 400,816 emails. organiseyourlife.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 27, 2017

Basically, the do / build method means that you block time for ‘doing’ tasks, such as answering emails, attending meetings or writing reports, and you block time for ‘building’ tasks such as training, brainstorming, networking or strategic thinking. Would a call or email exchange be more time effective?

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Adhering to the "Open Door" Policy By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , Prioritize I n my last job, I had my own office. If it was my boss that showed up, well, that’s a different story. If it was my boss that showed up, well, that’s a different story.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

If applicable and your manager does not ask these or similar questions you should be comfortable enough to bring them up during your meeting. Update phone extension list to ensure callers are directed to the appropriate person. Create email templates for responses to most frequently asked questions to save time.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Beyond that, droves of companies that were inexperienced with remote work were creating monitoring policies for the first time. An example would be call centers, where employee phone calls and voicemails were recorded and closely monitored to ensure their quality and efficiency.

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Allwork

AUGUST 26, 2022

As Generation Z—those born between 1997 and 2012—begins to enter the workforce, companies are realizing their current office spaces, operational policies, and company norms do not resonate as strongly with this emerging employee base as they did with those of decades past. “I definitely feel like I grow more when I’m in the office.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Any co-worker checking social media notifications instead of reading employee emails qualifies as online procrastination. Technology-related procrastination is relatively easy to stop by implementing a no-phone policy during the workday. How can you remedy this issue at your organization?

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BMT Office Administration

JUNE 16, 2023

Hopefully this isn’t an issue that comes up for your payroll department often, but it’s important to know what to do, and get it right, in the event that it does happen. More practically, cancel the deceased employee’s company email and security card, and retrieve their company-issued cell phone and laptop.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Memory Makeover: Tips to Spruce Up an Absent Mind Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on October 20, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Think you can successfully study the details of a report while talking on the phone and reading your horoscope? Thanks for visiting!

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

MARCH 28, 2024

Traditionally, executive assistants were seen as secretarial staff, making copies and answering phone calls. Include a specific contact person for queries, an email address or a link to the application portal. Look for answers indicating a balance between personal integrity and company policies.

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The Marq

APRIL 29, 2010

TheMarq A Human Perspective on Business and Life Why a Single Phone Line is All You Need Technology Review I’m writing today about the use of a single phone line for all business and/or personal phone and SMS communication. A complete UC package involves other services such as email, IM, and presence meta data.

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blogs.sitepoint.com

OCTOBER 29, 2010

While this makes sense, it doesn’t mean you should ignore behind-the-scenes business administration tasks, such as setting policies. Policies that outline how you run various elements of your business, and why you do it that way, set boundaries and create a foundation for the business. When will you answer calls and return calls?

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 27, 2017

Basically, the do / build method means that you block time for ‘doing’ tasks, such as answering emails, attending meetings or writing reports, and you block time for ‘building’ tasks such as training, brainstorming, networking or strategic thinking. Would a call or email exchange be more time effective?

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And so when you do it at a team level and you have all these teams basically having their own policy, their own team agreements, then it also works as a company. Frank Cottle 00:09:45 ]: I think you need to add one more word to that, and that’s responsibility went up. You had to show up early. I had to stay late.

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Sign Up NOW For Free. A Welcome Packet is a document – it can either be printed and mailed or digital and emailed – that you send out to your new clients when they sign up to work with you, and cements the relationship you are about to have with them. Sign Up NOW For Free. Live GET CLIENTS NOW! Live GET CLIENTS NOW!

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Virtual Moxie

MAY 13, 2013

We live in a world where you can’t move an inch without bumping into someone with a mobile phone. When you expect people to show up as expected and you share that expectation, most people will show up as expected. As soon as that email leaves me, I move on to someone or something else.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 15, 2013

He or she may enact a break-room-only eating policy. Offer to help with projects or cover their phone for the day. Make sure to keep disinfecting wipes nearby, regularly use hand sanitizers and stock up on vitamins or immune system boosters. Email, Phone & IM Notifications. Loud Co-workers.

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Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

name, address, phone number) will be used. Follow up with creditors if bills don’t arrive on time. Refuse to give out personal information on the phone, through the mail or over the internet unless you have initiated the contact or you know who you’re communicating with. Ask to use other forms of identification.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 11, 2011

  Are people up to date?    Meetings can be a room filled with a number of people or a phone call between two people and everything in-between.  Database groups, email, text messaging, private social media groups, etc.   Do they know what is going on? 

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Allwork

MARCH 25, 2024

You’ve taken it to an entirely new high, working around other people, incubation theories, mentoring theories, accelerator theories, fundings, exits, team rooms, the very start up to the very exit point overall. It actually started showing up around, I think, 2006, 2007, somewhere like that. Paradigm shifts have you seen?

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 2, 2015

But, with a few tweaks to your current set up you can start to turn that dream into a reality. And, most importantly, you can set your client payments up for automatic recurring billing. Have clear payment policies in place. For many business owners though, this is still a dream. Doesn’t that sound heavenly? Offer payment plans.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 2, 2012

I now work in a secluded corner of my office where I have my own space and rarely have to worry about anyone seeing my work or sneaking up behind me, which is great. DO: Have a clear desk policy, even if it is not enforced in your company. DO: Send an email to your colleague if they look like they are busy at their desk.

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

BYOD is a trend that supports employees with policies of use their own mobile and laptop devices in the workplace or at home in order to complete company related projects. If a customer service rep is off-site, they can still respond to a customer's query by email and then follow up with a phone call if necessary.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 28, 2010

Test you telephone skills with this simple quiz: How quickly should you pick up a ringing phone? Answers Answer a ringing phone by the third ring. Set up your voice mail to answer after the third ring. If your phone system shows internal vs. external calls, alter your greeting appropriately. Answers after the jump.

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