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Guidelines for Effective Email Writing

Jen Lawrence

My general guidelines are: Urgent/Important Flag: critical response is due under 36 hours Read Receipt: when sending information for review that you need verification each person has read by a specific deadline. Pst, bonus points if you include time zones! Therefore, the more clear you can be the better.

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What Is ‘Bare Minimum Monday’ and Will It Work for You?

Success

Rather than dive right into back-to-back meetings at the start of the week, we saw the opportunity to schedule sacred time for everyone,” she says. The only initial hesitation was making sure they could still accommodate internal and client calls.

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Whose meeting is it anyway?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Do you ever get a meeting request and an agenda has not been provided, or if it is a teleconference the call-in details have not been given or the boardroom hasnt been booked for an internal meeting? Whose responsibility is it anyway? When booking meetings ownership of the meeting has to be established. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog

Laughing all the Way to Work

Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? If you find some are outdated please let me know so I can remove them from this list. 411 Look Up 411.ca Between Amount vs number And and commas And and commas Part 2 Another Apostrophes with place names As of or As at As per Assume vs. Presume At vs. In Bad vs Badly Between you and.

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Now that is dedication.Executive Assistant donates kidney to her.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? If you find some are outdated please let me know so I can remove them from this list. 411 Look Up 411.ca Between Amount vs number And and commas And and commas Part 2 Another Apostrophes with place names As of or As at As per Assume vs. Presume At vs. In Bad vs Badly Between you and.

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When your boss arranges meetings behind your back.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Internal meetings can usually be changed more easily so start there. Realize that nothing is cast in stone and things can change so be prepared to make the necessary adjustments. Your boss is not trying to sabotage you. Assess which meetings can be adjusted without too much disruption. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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We did it Canada!

Laughing all the Way to Work

We list country codes, city codes, international and national dialing codes, and other relevant country information. Hello Patricia, You have some great resources at [link] Given your interest in country codes, I wanted to make you aware of my site, [link] for possible inclusion as well. 411 Look Up 411.ca