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Speaker 1: Good morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Arts,

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Speaker 1: the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the

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Speaker 1: flexible than in the past. Today's tip is about how

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Speaker 1: to keep track of what you're waiting for from other people.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to drop the ball with things wherever you're working,

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Speaker 1: but if you're working from home, it's particularly easy. You

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Speaker 1: won't bump into John in the hallway to ask when

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Speaker 1: he's going to send you his part of the report.

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Speaker 1: You might not be able to see that John was

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Speaker 1: is why he slow to respond on everything you won't

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Speaker 1: walk by John's cubicle and remember, oh, yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: supposed to have that thing by Now you have to

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Speaker 1: be much more proactive about following up. Fortunately, this is

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Speaker 1: really just about being organized. First, get in the habit

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Speaker 1: your business moves quite rapidly, a specific time. Then you

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Speaker 1: can make a note on your own calendar about when

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Speaker 1: you should follow up. So if John said he'd get

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Speaker 1: you the information on Tuesday, you put a note on

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Speaker 1: on the day's schedule. Then when Tuesday arrives and you're

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Speaker 1: to check to see if the information is in. If

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Speaker 1: it's not, you follow up. Now. This approach works if

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Speaker 1: you aren't usually waiting on a ton of stuff. I

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Speaker 1: where I'm waiting for things, so any given day won't

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Speaker 1: feature more than one or two items to track down.

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Speaker 1: A simple note on the calendar suffices if your job

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Speaker 1: need to formalize this and talking with folks in this position.

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Speaker 1: I've learned that you may be best off creating a

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Speaker 1: specific waiting for document. This can be a simple document

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Speaker 1: or spreadsheet organized by date. You put what you are

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Speaker 1: waiting for on any given date. Then during your weekly

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Speaker 1: planning time. Because you have a weekly planning time, right,

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Speaker 1: you look at the list for the upcoming week or two.

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Speaker 1: Get a sense of what you're waiting on and what's

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Speaker 1: likely to go awry and what might not. Each evening

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Speaker 1: can plan your day to track down things if necessary.

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Speaker 1: Some people like to do this within email. You could

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Speaker 1: create a waiting for folder where you send emails about

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Speaker 1: specific next steps. You could also use certain email programs

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Speaker 1: that allow you to re send emails to yourself at

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Speaker 1: a specific time. So if you send John an email

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Speaker 1: saying you need the material by five pm Thursday, you

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Speaker 1: set the email to come back to you at five

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Speaker 1: pm Thursday. If it's already been responded to with the info, well,

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Speaker 1: deal with it. You can also lighten some of this

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Speaker 1: If you always ask for information on Wednesdays, because you

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Speaker 1: If you always send your invoices on the first of

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Speaker 1: system for keeping track of what you're waiting for, please

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