Productivity Process Improvement
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In a busy work environment, details of a conversation with a fellow team-member can easily be forgotten. This is why it is so important that whenever you give or receive a spoken commitment from a coworker on an important task, you follow that conversation up with an email restating and confirming that commitment. If you're making plans around a promise that a colleague has given you for a job or commitment of your own, you don't want to wait until the due-date of the project to find out that the obligation has been forgotten.