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Your Etiquette Practice Could be Killing Your Productivity

Stephanie LH Calahan

Work With Stephanie « 5 Easy Ways Kick-Start Your Daily Personal Productivity | Main | Grow Your Productivity by Hours a Day » Your Etiquette Practice Could be Killing Your Productivity Today I received a really nice note from one of my contacts, Amy Humphreys, at Illinois State University. 

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A Telephone Etiquette Test

Ian's Messy Desk

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap A Telephone Etiquette Test Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on May 28, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. 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.

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3 Simple Steps to Improving Communication Skills

Office Dynamics

Pick up the phone and speak to the person? Three things to consider to improving communication skills in the workplace: What is my goal or motive for communicating with this person now? Written or e-mailed messages, or quick phone calls, are most effective. Remember your goal/motive and your relationship, too! Joan Burge.

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Communication Skills That Have Impact…Choose The Right Medium

Office Dynamics

Does it make any difference whether you IM or phone someone? Goal/Motive. Once you determine your goal in communicating, try to answer the following questions. In the 21 st century, we have so many ways to communicate. Is each communication medium interchangeable? And when should you use letter correspondence? Joan Burge.

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Answering Reader Mail: 7 Tips on Attire, Scheduling & Etiquette

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I sat at my kitchen table watching my phone blow up while people were emailing and IM’ing me all at the same time wanting to know why they couldn’t get on the call. I think along with this question I would also like to know if you have etiquette tips about emailing with the other EA’s on the client side of things.

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To-Do or Not To-Do? Taking Your To-Do List to the Next Level!

Professional Assistant Blog

Having a to-do list can be very helpful in accomplishing your tasks, but also setting goals. In order to set goals, you have to write them down and then prioritize them. Then, you need to assign tasks to each goal, where you break the goal down into manageable chunks. Do you want to take it to the next level?

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Warning! Warning! Incoming text message.

Laughing all the Way to Work

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Sometimes I wish I had something to warn me when I am with someone with a cell phone so I can know that we are going to be interrupted. Apparently not, when its by phone. Lets enjoy our day together.©