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Learn something new with this month’s Career Corner articles: Find extra time in your day by developing good email habits. Overcome the grip of a micromanaging boss so that you truly excel. Become conscious of your career path and take the initiative to steer it in the right direction. Enjoy!
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CAREER CORNER Email Best Practices: 8 Efficient Habits of Highly-Productive People 
From work correspondence to newsletters, sales fliers, bank statements, and personal notes, it’s easy to see how so many people get buried under a proverbial pile of emails. “It’s a lot of information to get through,” commiserates Hallie Crawford, career coach and founder of career coaching agency Hallie Crawford. “It’s easy to get distracted looking at the 50-percent-off sale email from your favorite retail store, just as it’s also easy to reply to things you don’t really have the time to respond to right now.”
But the most productive people have clever ways to beat back their burning desire to empty their inboxes so that they can focus on the real work that must be done. With these tips, your email account will soon be a tool—not an obstacle—to keeping you on task. Go here to learn more.
How to Handle a Micromanaging Boss Without Getting Fired  When you start a new job, it’s normal to have your boss check up on you and double-check your work to make sure that you are doing things correctly. At the very least, she will touch base with you verbally or via email to ensure that everything is going smoothly.
But what if your boss is always double-checking your work, even when it’s not appropriate because you are a high-level employee? Or if she is doing it after you have been at your job long enough – and proven yourself enough – to earn her trust and some loosening up on the reins?
If your boss is a micromanager, here are three things you can reasonably do without jeopardizing your job or seeming like you’re undermining her authority. Go here to learn these three things.
3 Ways Saying No at Work Can Boost Your Career 
Sometimes saying no is the best way to manage your time and move your career forward.
Many of us believe, whether consciously or not, that it’s important to say yes at work, especially to our bosses. Even if we realize rationally that sometimes we need to say no to better manage our time – because we are overwhelmed or if we aren’t capable of handling a task – I think most of us are hardwired to be pleasers and say yes at work. It makes sense on a basic level. We are there to do a job. When someone asks us to do something, our instinct can be to say yes. But we know rationally that it’s critically important to say no sometimes at work. And it takes emotional intelligence to not just react to a situation or a request, but take the time to step back, reflect on the best course of action, then act accordingly. Too often it is easier to fall prey to the knee-jerk reaction to say yes, instead of having a tougher – but perhaps more productive – conversation to say no or negotiate an alternative.
If you are someone who tends to say yes more than you should, click here to learn how to stop.
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