Personal Experiences,Study, Learning Blog of Abu Rashid aka Harun

Give atleast a week time after you put forward your request if you are not hurry.

If in hurry still you should give two days interval, if too urgent then 1 day interval.

 send a request indirectly by email.

Text that email sent.

The following day ask whether it is received.You talk directly,so this is to be taken as first direct contact.

Next week,you may send an indirect reminder followed by calling up or just call up. This is the second direct contact. After that the work is supposed to be done in the majority of the case. If it is not done,it will not be done. If you need to use go up the hierarchy or antoher person or another sort of lobbying.

If work is done, always thank atleast indirectly and if suits better directly.

For someone in upper rank, perhaps you may not give reminder directly. In that case, you may offer your help time to time get the work done and it would work as a reminder.