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Your new boss has arrived. Those are four key points that you should consider.

Photo credit: Pixabay It is Monday morning and the sector leader sends you a meeting request. You double click on the Outlook invitation and you see that the whole team is invited, the manager included. In a short break you ask a couple of colleagues what could be the reason of the gathering, but no-one has a clue. “Probably another great achievement in sales semester”, someone mentions with…

Hand-off to a newcomer

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An experienced engineer is about to leave because early next week he starts a new position. He’s been part of the team for the last five or six years. He has a solid background in software engineering, with a proven track on systems implementation and project design. He is responsible for the development and operations of the centralized backup solution of the…

Quarantine days working from home – Part 2

I sit on the kitchen table because of the light above my head. It makes keyboarding easy. I also have access to drinks and beverages, and I can walk to the balcony without disturbing my wife, who takes advantage of the spacious living room.

In the quarantine, for us who are remotely connected to our offices, there is a grey area between personal time and working time. The first, it is time we…

Why not to use in emails the phrase “As we discussed over the phone”

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Quite often, I see emails between my colleagues which open with the expression: “As we discussed or communicated or clarified over the phone”. Such emails usually follow an oral communication between the parts that are involved, so as the sender to make clear that the written words are not an inch far from the spoken truth.

I don’t remember myself doing something like…