Negotiating with an influential person may feel like fighting a losing battle. If you’re about to go toe-to-toe with someone who has more status or power than you, quash your feelings of helplessness by preparing yourself mentally beforehand, suggests Brazen CareerÂÂist writer Savannah Marie. She offers these six tips.
Before you can step into a leadership role, you must first demonstrate to the higher-ups that you’re prepared for the next level. But, how do you do that?
Windows 8 boots up within 10 seconds and shuts down just as fast. All of my applications run just fine on it and much,much faster than they used to. To shut it down, click the power button in the upper right corner of your Start screen. Like shortcuts? Windows key, U, U works well. Plus, you can work with it exactly how you worked with Windows 7. Really! Read on …
Occasional chitchat is a good way to improve interpersonal relationships, but when it’s overdone, it can be an annoying barrier to finishing the job, as two readers pointed out recently on the Admin Pro Forum.
Question: “My company recently hired an admin who doesn’t quite fit in with the personalities around here. She’s shy and some people think she’s a little odd, but she does her job well enough. I’m worried that after only a month, she seems cut off from the other admins and is being isolated through no real fault of her own. Does anyone have any ideas on how to ‘rescue’ someone like this and make sure she doesn’t become the employee people just don’t care about?” – Livvy, Brokerage Assistant
How many of us who should know better keep accepting at face value unusual emails from companies we deal with regularly—especially ones alerting us that we need to “click here” to update our accounts or passwords, or react to an alleged fraud, or provide new information that hasn’t been required before. At this point in […]
Q: “I supervise a data clerk who is rude and uncooperative. She acts independently, as if I don’t exist, and snaps at me whenever I tell her something. My manager and I have discussed this, but have not been able to come up with a solution. There is just no way to communicate with her. Any suggestions?” Defeated
Constantly checking email is a great way to stop productivity in its tracks. Productivity coach Susan Lasky recommends changing the way you manage your inbox.