Who's your client?

Subject: Who's your client?
From: David Neeley <dbneeley -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:43:49 -0800 (PST)

In a recent post:

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Moral: After flunking out of the hard-knock school of
CYA, I learned
(1) FIND
OUT WHO YOUR CLIENT REALLY IS and (2) get the
appropriate person to sign-off on your meeting notes
when you have been instructed to do something
important.
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Excellent advice. However, there's another technique
that may be easier to implement (since you run into
some bozos who won't commit themselves in writing!).

In a situation like this, try e-mailing the affected
parties as a follow-up. Something like: "To be sure I
am clear on the decisions made in our meeting..."
Then, put in summary form a point-by-point list of the
decisions arrived at.

Keep these messages. They constitute a modern
equivalent of a "paper trail" when you are in CYA
mode. They also can be surprisingly useful when some
members of a group meeting didn't actually understand
what was going on. They will tend to try to quickly
correct any misapprehensions.

Finally, I'd suggest doing regular backups of this
e-mail onto removable media and keep your copies at
home. This last bit may sound paranoid, but it can be
valuable and is simple to do and might make a
difference later.

David


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