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Professional Email Etiquettes – The Importance of “To”

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Professional Email Etiquettes – The Importance of “To”

Emails!!! In this century, people, office and organizations are connected through mails. This is the century where mails are preferred much more than a verbal conversation. Why? Because these mails can later be used as a proof of the conversation. The days of the office memo are gone. You do not sign on those circulars that the office boys circulate in departments seeking the signature of everybody reading it. Today it is the electronic signature that is important and it is a valid enough evidence that you have read a circular. This is a series that I am starting today on professional email etiquettes. This series would cover everything that is important when you write a professional email - the what, how and when of email writing. In the first article here, we will be discussing about the importance of addressing the right person in the "To" field. If you peep into your inbox right now, you will find quite a few mails which were actually ones that were to be actioned by you, yet you were nowhere in the "To" field of the email. There would also be certain other emails where you were one of the many who were addressed in the...

How Good are you with Delegation?

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Are your spending more than 12 hours in your office and still unable to complete your work? Is your team feeling demotivated and unimportant? If you are wondering, why I asked these two different questions that has no relation with each other, then think again!! These two questions are related to each other. I have...

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Want to Grow Fast – Learn to Network Better

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Do you really have to rely on your networking skills in order to grow in your organization? This era is of networking. Business have taken to networking in order to connect with their customers because they know that it is the network that they create with their customers that will get them more and more...

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Going for the CAPM Certification for Your Career

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CAPM stands for Certified Associate in Project Management and the certification is generally for people pursuing a career in project management or, wanting to assist and improve the general success of a project as a team member in their area of expertise. The CAPM certification is an entry level certification that aspiring project managers are...

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The Value of PMI Certifications

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Project management professionals from across the world, all have a goal of climbing the ladder to success while doing great things along the way and challenging themselves to see what their strengths are. They want to be acknowledged for all the hard work they put into the company. PMI certifications can fullfill this ambition that...

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The Impact of using Social Networking Sites at Workplace

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Social Networking…Does that term sound familiar? No question of an unfamiliarity, right? If you are still not aware of what a social networking site is, then let me tell you that everything starting from Facebook, LinkedIn to Twitter can be called a social networking site. These are basically sites that help you network with other...

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Can I change my Job? A Roundup of the status of the Recession

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Was there really a recession? Were you able to see it? Did you experience it? I still remember a post that I had written about an year back on the job change confusion. The US economy was hit by one of the worst recessions and the Indian economy felt the ripples. Almost all the industries...

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The Secret to a Happy Day – 90/10 Principle

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What is the secret to a happy day? The other day I was reading an article from Stephen Covey. In this article he had explained a principle called as the 90/10 principle. This is what he had to say about the principle - 10% of life is made up of what happens to you, ……90%...

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The Importance of Perception Management

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The first step in perception management will be to ensure that the little time that you spend with the ones who you wish to influence is positive in all sense. Let me take the example of the regular employee. What is it that is influencing the superiors to form a negative perception about the good...

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Being Empathetic – Traits of a Good Leader

by Dilip

What is the single most important thing that distinguishes a good leader from a bad one? You will find numerous leaders around you – in your organization, in your country and even in your family. Leaders influence you and your actions and in some way becomes responsible for your goals in life. They pave the...

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Winning job interviews – A review of the book

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Can a book really prepare you for an interview? I never believed it could and to be very frank, I had never read too many such books. But some time back one of my readers suggested that I should refer books that could help them in appearing for their interviews. This is when I decided...

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Anger – It can help boost your career

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If you are wondering how anger can boost your career, then you are at the right place. Read on to know how. Negative emotions such as fear and anger are inborn and are of tremendous importance. Negative emotions are often crucial for survival: careful experiments such as ours have documented that negative emotions narrow and...

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Aggression – Its Importance in your career

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Is aggression good for your career? Many a times I have seen people in the top management being a bit too much aggressive. I have also come across quite a few employees in the lower management levels also who have exhibited excessive aggression. How good is aggression and what level of management does it benefit?...

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Tell me something about yourself

by Dilip

What is the first question that you get to hear from an interviewer? “Tell me something about yourself”. Most of the interviewers start with this question and most of the interviewees take it the wrong way and respond to it. A poor first impression!! Why is this question the favorite of these interviewers? What is...

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The Tobacco-free Revolution

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The BPO and Call center culture has brought about quite a lot of changes – some positive and some negative. Though critics and well-wishers are right in saying that there the changes are more of negative, especially in India, there would be no denying the fact that there a lot of changes that are positive...

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Anger – It can help boost your career
If you are wondering how anger can boost your career, then you are at the right place. Read on to know how. Negative emotions such as fear and anger are...
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Aggression – Its Importance in your career
Is aggression good for your career? Many a times I have seen people in the top management being a bit too much aggressive. I have also come across quite a...
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Success as a Team
How can you enhance performance within a team? Businesses in BPOs and Call-centers are more of team-work and less of individual efforts. So when it comes to the success of...
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Non-Verbal communication – the handshake
In this part of the interviewing tips series, we are going to touch upon the most important part in any interview. This aspect is what plays a major role in...
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I Cannot Sell!!
I have come across many people who would run for their life when they get to know that they have to sell something in a job. There are numerous others...
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Realistic Goals Vs Ambitious goals
A career is only successful if it is planned well. Planning in your career would obviously start with setting goals and targets and then running for it. But it is...
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