Success

MAY 31, 2022

An email preview pops up in the corner of your screen. Celebrity gossip. The dentist’s office wants you to reply “YES” to confirm your appointment. Flash sale—take advantage now! News of a tragedy that just took place on the other side of the world. Beeps, ringtones, notifications, calendar reminders and vibrations.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 28, 2015

As a PA or EA, your ability to handle confidential subjects, issues, emails and documents is essential. Confidential emails and digital files. The issue of confidentiality is especially pertinent when it comes to handling emails and electronic documents. When a confidential email arrives, avoid opening it in a full-screen view.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 28, 2012

As assistants we are trusted with confidential information on a regular basis, we see our boss’ emails, we open their post and we often hear private details about other members of staff. The following steps should make this clear: a) Mark the email as ‘confidential’, you can do this in the email options tab.

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Eat Your Career

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

The gossip and backstabbing and flat-out sabotage was almost comical. Send an email to his or her boss and explain how much it meant to you. Email this to a friend? I’ve been in professional environments where the tension was so thick you could practically taste it. People literally hated one another. Smile more.

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Productivity Bits

JUNE 25, 2010

Stop Replying To Emails You’re CC’d In. The fact that you are on the cc tells you that your are provided the copy of that email for your reference. Many still don’t get the concept of the cc (copy) in an email. They not only eke out positive energy out of you but they also tend to breed office gossip.

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 26, 2013

They tend to have a widespread knowledge of the office gossip, can be found sharing this knowledge in the office toilets or during after work drinks. Ask them to send you an email with details on what ever they need and don’t stay still for too long in case they manage to corner you. Be busy to the point of rudeness.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 28, 2016

How do you work out what is important information and what is really just office gossip? Read all of the newsletters, bulletins and company emails that pass by your desk. A skill that is super important for assistants to master. How do you stay in the loop when there is so much going on?

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Virtual Moxie

JUNE 2, 2015

A Framework for Thinking Ethically * Chris Bauer's Weekly Ethics Thought (delivered via email) Ethics in your VA practice It's critical to developing trust with clients that they believe that you will behave in an ethical manner at all times.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 21, 2010

Discourage gossip. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. Let your virtues, if you have any, speak for themselves. Refuse to talk of another’s vices.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Your constant workplace gossip is going to get you in trouble quickly if you don’t cut it out. Remember that gossip is incredibly harmful and unproductive. Email this to a friend? When things get you down, you accept them on the surface but then you do everything you can to make others know how much you don’t like it.

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The problem then snowballs and there’s a bunch of unsaid animosity that comes out in snippy emails and rude comments and eye rolling and gossip and anonymous notes. Email this to a friend? It creates a toxic environment that spreads like wildfire. Now, I’m not saying that every little nuisance needs to be addressed. Tweet This!

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Additionally, in line with this psychological phenomenon, workplaces can witness ‘grapevine communication,’ the discourse of “he/she said X” getting filtered through the team.

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 16, 2017

Things like gossiping about others. Members have the option to sign up and receive blog posts directly in their email inbox as soon as they are published. You may find yourself slowly devolving into “the grey area”—doing things that aren’t necessary wrong, but things that don’t truly reflect a strong, ethical core.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 14, 2010

Know your own weaknesses : Don’t get caught up in gossip. Comment by Frank on May 17, 2010 @ 9:59 am Trackbacks Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Being cheerful not only makes others feel good, it will make you feel good as well. Learn to discuss.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This leads to gossip and politics, often just below the surface of what looks like a happy and positive culture. Ask to be removed from the cc field on email threads. There’s also a counterintuitive issue that happens often in Friend-led cultures. They’ll thank you for it in the end. A final word for the Fixer. Don’t look.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 22, 2012

b) I tell him it wasn’t my fault and then later, gossip with my co-workers about how much I hate him. Email this to a friend? When my boss confronts me about a mistake I’ve made, I…. a) Feel ashamed and embarrassed. I make excuses and sometimes, I have to hold back tears. c) I apologize and listen to his feedback. Post this to MySpace.

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The Office Professionals Place

JULY 27, 2010

In order to effectively deal with the backstabbers, stubborn, mean-spirited, micromanagers, gossips, and the host of others that make the list, we must evaluate our own perceptions of these people. Enter your email address in the ‘subscribe’ field on this page to get automatic updates from the Office Professionals Place Blog.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Any co-worker checking social media notifications instead of reading employee emails qualifies as online procrastination. Examples include: Gossiping with co-workers. For instance, an employee may spend all day sorting and filing their emails instead of outlining and working on a project that has closely approaching due dates.

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Virtual Moxie

AUGUST 10, 2010

Stay away from email! Last week, after VMoxie hit the blogosphere, I got email from Jennifer who wanted to know HOW to find the thing that lights her up inside so that she can begin moving in that direction. Turns out that in that first email, she TOLD me what that was. Speed is the enemy of many good things. On Justin Bieber.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Low and behold, there was an email waiting for me from Nancy with several samples of her work! Just like nail biting or gossip, whining is a bad habit - nothing more - and all bad habits can be broken. I was back in Nevada that same night – I got in around 6:45. Talk about being on the ball. You’ll be so much more empowered!

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Low and behold, there was an email waiting for me from Nancy with several samples of her work! Just like nail biting or gossip, whining is a bad habit - nothing more - and all bad habits can be broken. I was back in Nevada that same night – I got in around 6:45. Talk about being on the ball. You’ll be so much more empowered!

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Eat Your Career

MAY 24, 2011

Do you like email, phone or in-person conversation best?). This is not a gossip fest or a vent session. Email this to a friend? Here are a few examples of the types of questions you can ask (and the information you can share about yourself) to get things started: How do you prefer to communicate? (Do What drives you insane?

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Eat Your Career

DECEMBER 12, 2012

There are all kinds of cliques and gossip. Email this to a friend? Sometimes, the office can feel like high school. Occasionally, you even run into a workplace bully—someone who constantly criticizes, aggressively points out mistakes, and refuses to be part of your team. But what if you’re the one doing the bullying? Tweet This!

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

I’ve actually written a few blogs on how to work with confidential documents and not being the office gossip. Can blogging and being active in social media harm your career? I think that is a very good question. For me I think blogging and social media can only enhance your career.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

I’ve actually written a few blogs on how to work with confidential documents and not being the office gossip. Can blogging and being active in social media harm your career? I think that is a very good question. For me I think blogging and social media can only enhance your career.

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Andrea Kalli

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Some criticisms just are not worth responding to, most notably ’snark’-style blog comments and angry gossip articles. Gauge the value of a response. Take the celebrity strategy — respond to criticism that’s worthy of your input, and ignore anything that isn’t.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 23, 2010

Likewise, you might create a separate group for family members and close friends so that their tweets don’t get lost in the celebrity gossip and sports tweets. Instead, create a group of those people whose tweets you value the most. Thanks to the 140 character tweet limit, posting links takes up valuable tweet real estate space.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 23, 2014

Secretaries listen to office gossip and complaints, administrative professionals act as corporate arbitrators and manage conflict between administrators and staff. And anyone can email me questions and I respond only via this blog, not to your personal address. You can just write “Thx!”

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 9, 2012

And don’t ask for gossip or stories. You can find the images online at Getty Images, Wire Image, IMDB, and any Hollywood site that covers events and gossip such as Perez Hilton. Don’t gossip. And anyone can email me questions and I respond only via this blog, not to your personal address. Look for it the next day.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live. So there’s a lot of, you know, office gossip and stuff like that. So yeah, you can email me on there. So both emails are their management@theprettyassistant.co, Yeah, Jeremy Burrows 30:15 perfect.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 13, 2010

As soon as you get an email or piece of paper, deal with it. If I flag it for later I at least say I got their email. In all emails with other assistants we started referring to our bosses by initials only. LOL I don’t divulge because I don’t have any and it’s not good to gossip. This is part 3.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 12, 2013

Don't gossip or share confidential things, but you get my point. This break from ringing phones, a constant stream of visitors, pinging emails, and all sorts of stimuli will allow you to breathe, sit, and "meditate" for 5 minutes. And anyone can email me questions and I respond only via this blog, not to your personal address.

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Who's the Real Boss?

JULY 29, 2018

When your boss asks you about an email that they sent two weeks ago and whether they have received a response from it, more than likely you are usually left standing there thinking, you can’t be serious right! Perhaps you’re taking on too much, and dare I say it, not saying ‘no’ enough to others.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

We heard gossip about all kinds of amazing things in this fantastic second edition release of the Write for the Web ebook, like: • 85+ pages of brand-new, fresh, never-before-read-by-human-eyes (we don’t count James) content, all of it designed to help you become the biggest, baddest web writer the Internet ever did see. Vicious lies.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MARCH 22, 2013

I was so excited to see your email and as I read it, I thought it would eventually end on a high note. However, to shed some light on culture and the business world for any readers who are young, new to EA work, or going through the same thing, I want to address your email in its entirety. I will definitely answer your question.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 24, 2013

It’s best not to gossip or form secret alliances. And anyone can email me questions and I respond only via this blog, not to your personal address. The goal is to fit into what exists already and understand your role in the organization/seniority. Be willing to learn a lot, wear a lot of hats, not complain, and follow their lead.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 4, 2010

Don’t Gossip Talking behind other people’s back is like putting your exhaustion pipe to somebody else door, while pretending you’re looking in a different direction. ’ Even people who avoid gossiping don’t realise that talking bad about yourself makes you believe it eventually. Great post. Stay Motivated!

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