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P r o f e s s io n a l D e v e l o P M e n t f o r C a n a Da' s o f f iC e s u P P o r t s ta f f
Administrative
Assistant's
MArch 2015
UPDATE
Top Twitter tips
If you want a lot of retweets (RTs)
on Twitter, keep your tweets even
shorter than 140 characters. When
someone retweets you, it adds
characters such as your Twitter
handle, and you have to allow for
that. Retweeters may also want to
add their own brief comment
("Great advice!" for instance) so
give them a bit of room. Aim for
115 characters or less. Short tweets
are more popular, anyway, and
more likely to get retweeted. Even
better, leave out all the words and
just tweet an image. Images get
retweeted about twice as much as
word-based messages. And
infographics get tweeted 832 per
cent more than images, according
to Bit Rebels.
Source: pcmag.com
InsIDE
Habit forming . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Some good habits to keep your
brain charged.
Don't call us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Some embarrassing (and super-
interesting) things some people did
this year during job interviews.
Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Test your grammar smarts!
Great apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Rhonda Scharf has sorted through
all of the productivity apps out
there and found three of the best
ones for admins.
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Credit:
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"
Time to go
"
What to do when the conversation
has gone off the rails
By Helen Latimer
"Time to go."
This simple phrase, uttered
in a tone that brooked no
disagreement, brought
us back to reality
with a jolt. I was
in the middle of
a conversa-
tion with a
good friend
about the
merits of the
then-mayor of
our city. In reality, it
wasn't a conversa-
tion—it was two
monologues. My friend was pas-
sionately articulating her position
and I was doing the same about
mine.
There was no listening, no
persuading and no openness to any
point of view other than our own.
No questions or curiosity about the
other person's opinion. Each of us
was using the time the other person
spoke to prepare our next volley,
confident our information was not
only complete, but correct.
Thankfully, another friend who
had been sitting quietly, observing
the display, jumped in to stop the
merry-go-round with her well-spo-
ken edict to bring the 'conversation'
to an end: "Time to go."
She was right, we weren't lis-
tening to each other—it was time to
go.
This happens to all of us. We feel
so passionately about our cause, our
point of view and we want so badly
to persuade that we talk and we talk
and we talk. I think we feel that the
more we talk, the more quickly we
can bring the other person to see
why our way of thinking should
prevail.
We forget that displays of en-
thusiasm and excitement can, both
at home and at work, be a source
of conflict. We don't intend it to
be—we want to share, we want our
colleagues and friends to join us
and we stop listening. We believe
