What helped clinch this year’s OfficeTeam Administrative Excellence Award for Deborah Carter? … Perk up your daily emails with MeebleMail … Double-check your work. A survey by Accountemps shows that “lack of attention to detail/sloppy work” is the No. 1 pet peeve of CFOs …
Prevent a disaster by proofreading every digit in every phone number carefully. One wrong digit in a phone number in a press release had recipients dialing a phone sex line instead of the intended company. If you’re unfamiliar with a number, dial it yourself to check.
When you’re working with a virtual team scattered across locations, foster unity with these steps: 1. Make messages “location-neutral.” 2. Share success. 3. Don’t waste meeting time during rare face-to-face gatherings.
Consider targeting your pitch to the person’s sensory preferences. With a visual person, help him or her picture how your idea will look. With an auditory person, pitch your idea in person rather than in writing.
If you’re a “hyperhelper” or “give-aholic,” ask yourself these questions, suggested by a psychologist, when someone asks you to do something:
Stocking your office with a few gift certificates to local restaurants and other businesses makes it easy for your boss to say “Thank you” or “Good job” to team members
To stand out in a competitive workplace, you have to do the workaday equivalent of juggling with fire—say, swooping in to save a crucial project just in the nick of time—while streamlining a dozen different processes and keeping your boss on schedule. Right? Actually, little things may make a disproportionately big impact.
Over the past few decades, we’ve become accustomed to pumping our own gas, dispensing our own soft drinks and bagging our own groceries. So, it’s not a stretch to ask customers and clients to serve themselves a bit. Example: Patients waiting for someone to process their payments can address postcards to themselves that will remind […]
Question: “A supervisor who reports to me spends too much time talking with employees about their personal problems. Many of her staff members are young parents who carry a lot of ‘baggage.’ I understand that it can be hard to separate personal from professional, and I don’t want to seem unsympathetic. However, we don’t need an atmosphere where managers are viewed as counselors. I am struggling with the best way to tell this supervisor that she needs to focus on her management responsibilities. Any suggestions?” —Not Dear Abby
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