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Questions about addressing difficult or complicated communication issues in the workplace. Communication in the workplace may take place in many forms (email, phone, face-to-face, IM) and between a variety of parties (coworkers, managers, reports, clients).
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How to deal with people who will not read?
In addition to @MacItaly's great answer, I want to add an additional point:
Make your main point right up front. The first thing someone reads in a long document should be a summary of what the docum …
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New at a job and it feels like everything is too fast, should I tell my boss?
You are being too hard on yourself. What you are going through is very normal and expected. Since you are fresh out of school, you just haven't had this experience yet. The working world is very diffe …
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How do I deal with a coworker that won't assist me when he's supposed to?
Set up a meeting to explicitly go over the things you need to go over. Get it on his calendar.
It sounds like your colleague may actually be busy, or at least forgetful. When you get busy, it's easy …
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How to do a Farewell Lunch while Maintaining Social Distancing
This, too, will pass. Times where we need to maintain social distancing won't last forever. Unless the person leaving is also moving far away, make a commitment to get everyone together for lunch at s …
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When demoing a performance improvement, should you demo the speedup first or last?
Always lead with the headline
When giving a presentation, writing a paper, conveying information to another human, assume you have their attention for about 10 seconds and after that they are going to …
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How do I get my boss to understand something is going to be a lot harder than he conceptuali...
Sit down and work out just how extensive a change you need to make just to make execute the change he is asking for. Then give him an honest assessment of how long you think it will take. If he questi …
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Meeting new CEO for the first time, how to respond?
Don't overthink this, CEOs are just people like everyone else. The only difference is that their concerns regard the whole company, not just any one department. This sounds like a routine "I'm new, I …
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Are humanities subjects useful for Computer Science jobs?
In my professional experience as a software developer, if there is one skill I would say that is more useful than anything else, it is communication. …
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Resignation - Is it fair for an employer to delay communicating about me leaving my company?
Sure it is. It's their company, they get to decide what information should be spread to their employees or not. They have determined that the benefits of you postponing your announcement outweigh the …
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How to respond to unprofessional email from boss?
Absolutely do not include others in your response. In fact, it is probably better not to respond at all. Matters of performance and expectations are between you and your manager, even if he has simila …
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Co-workers don't know about my previous experience
When it comes to promotions and job levels , very rarely do your actual years of experience matter as much as how you have demonstrated you are capable of operating at the level demanded by the job ti …
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What is preferred? Long explanatory e-mail or short introduction with necessary followup?
Here are a few guidelines I have found useful in my writing (these are useful for email, but can really be applied to any written communication):
State your goal or main point up front, right in the …
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