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Instilling company culture across geographic divides

Workplace Insight

Due to the wide breadth of employees in large global companies, everything from time zones and language barriers to country culture and local business norms can create sticking points. There will be differences, ranging from the internal platforms they prefer to appropriate office etiquette.

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10 E-mail Etiquette Pet Peeves and How to Handle Them

Office Dynamics

Some time ago, we asked readers for a list of their pet peeves with emails. The results led to our first “ Email etiquette ” story. The “oops” factor: Keep a careful watch on time zone references as well. It’s easy to confuse “standard time” with “daylight saving time (DST).” states or nations.

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Answering Reader Mail: 7 Tips on Attire, Scheduling & Etiquette

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

This company is so ginormous I am having a dizzy time of trying to wrap my brain around what all they do – various forms of power, civil engineering, and then the IT services side of it. I am learning time zones and currencies and every day I am shaking in my boots that it might be too much but I want it so dang bad!

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Creating Effective Team Communication Systems

BioTeams

One can imagine the resonance here against large multinational teams operating in a matrix structure with multiple backgrounds, skill sets and scopes and especially those that work under a follow the sun model (where one time zone sleeps, the other is awake to continue the trail).

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Welcome to Canada, Mr. President.

Laughing all the Way to Work

What is the proper etiquette when addressing or writing to a President? Here is a video link on the proper etiquette to address a President. Everyone up here calls him Obama and our Prime Minister is called Harper. Why do we not use their full name? Or it is that we just dont know how to address them so revert to last names?

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We did it Canada!

Laughing all the Way to Work

Proverbs 17:22 Humorous Out of Office Replies Office Humour The Administrative Bloopers blog Workplace Humour International Help Country calling codes Country codes and more Dialing international calls/country codes International phone calling information and calling codes Reservations for restaurants around the world Time Zones Job Seekers AdminSecret (..)

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Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 28, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , Travel D o you need to book meetings for your manager(s), but most meetings are all over the country or even internationally?