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My 6 Stages of Grief When Dealing With Mean Emails

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I call it the email sucker punch. You’re having a great day and then you get that email. A rude email sucker punched me a few weeks ago. I was emailing people left and right , exploring new options, getting stuff done —overall, I was excited about the future. It loves these emails. Then one wasn’t. It’s all over.

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The 3-Sentence Email Guaranteed to Get a Response

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This sentence must contain these specific elements: Why the recipient should care about your email. If your real goal is a phone call, don’t ask, “Could we have a phone call some time?” This sentence tells Clargley you respect her time, are willing to do the time-zone math, and all she needs to do is pick up the phone.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself.

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Want to Reduce Digital Distractions? Brain Coach Jim Kwik Shares Strategies for Better Focus

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Brain coach Jim Kwik’s morning routine advice “What a lot of people do first thing in the morning is they’ll flex their distraction muscles by picking up their device,” Kwik says. And when you wake up in the morning and you’re in this relaxed state of awareness, you’re just very suggestible.

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Upping your A(ssisting) game when you work with a Board of Trustees

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Below are three suggestions to “up your game” when working with the board. These are just a few items from our Bylaws that have come up in meetings that I was able to give the answer to so we could continue working. As a bonus this will also alleviate emails and phone calls to you asking when something is due.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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The agent pays to put them up in a luxury condo overnight, covers the change fees on their flights, and sells them a home the next day. Here’s one of five emails I received on one order: Dear Todd AKA Shindigz Customer of the Day, CONGRATULATIONS! I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year.

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Ep 247: Email Management for Executive Assistants

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In this chapter, I cover tactics for managing your own email inbox, as well as your executive’s. Of course, I’d love to hear your email tips and tricks as I’m always down to get more efficient and productive, so please reach out! LEADERSHIP QUOTE Email is the gateway drug of work; Slack is the crack.

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