Inbox Detox and the Habit of E-Mail Excellence
Our book, Inbox Detox – And the Habit of E-mail Excellence (Acanthus Publishing, 2009) is 180 pages of helping you change your emailing HABITS.
What’s in this book
- How much e-mail mismanagement is costing you
- Two e-mail handling assessments
- The internationally acclaimed “12 Steps to Curing Your E-mail Eddiction”
- Twenty “Toxic E-mailer Alert” Profiles – do you know “Midnight Manny?”
- Best practices for e-mail efficiency, eco-friendliness, and etiquette
- Over 10 habit changing practices and tips
180 pages of ways to detoxify your draining email habits and take control of your life.
EXCERPT:
While companies are losing worker productivity, employees are extending the length of their workdays, going to the office on weekends, and checking their e-mail while on vacation because they can no longer manage the volume of communication that requires their attention. This is how e-mail habits have become toxic to individuals and businesses alike.
“What’s most unique and valuable about this book is that Marsha has developed a process for managing your email. Follow her steps and two things will happen: You will be more productive and have less stress.”
President, GMP Training Systems, Inc. http://TeddySpeaks.com
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EXCERPT:
TOXIC E-MAILER ALERT! VERBOSE VELMA
Verbose Velma’s e-mails run on and on and on and on and on and on…
Velma’s Antidote: Shorten the message, Velma! Her rule of thumb should be that if it will take longer to type your e-mail than to pick up the phone or visit the person and simply relay the message through conversation, don’t waste time creating the e-mail message. Rather, call or visit, explain the situation, and if a record is needed, summarize it later by e-mail. That summary e-mail will be shorter than the originally intended one. In the long run, it will take Velma less time, and bring her better results.
CHATROOM CHUCK, COPY-HAPPY HARRY,
MIDNIGHT MANNY, URGENT URSULA
“After reading your book, I immediately became more aware of the length of my e-mail messages to others as well as who I sent copies of the e-mail to. Your book is an excellent guide for the sole entrepreneur, as well as a corporation with thousands of employees. The advice you offer is bound to save people time and focus their attention on tasks of higher priority. Thank you!”
President, Universal Design Living Laboratory http://www.UDLL.com
MORE ABOUT THE BOOK, AND WHY YOU NEED IT…
Workplace interruptions cost the U.S. economy $900 billion per year (according to research by information-technology research firm Basex[1]) – that’s not a number any company wants to see during a recession. The study found email to be the third largest culprit when it comes to workplace interruptions. Basex indicates that employees spent a total of just 11 minutes on a project before being distracted by an incoming email, and that it took them an average of 25 minutes to get back to that particular task. In a time when layoffs and cutbacks are becoming the norm, companies cannot afford to keep losing productivity if they want to survive.
The solution is for companies to work toward creating productive workplace habits. Email misuse is a habit – a bad one – and it’s imperative to recognize it as such. And, like any other habit, you can learn how to break it. Developing new, productive email habits can save your company hundreds of thousands of dollars – and yourself a great deal of time and energy, according to internationally recognized productivity expert, author, and coach Marsha Egan. She tackles the process of taking control of your inbox in her new book, Inbox Detox and the Habit of E-mail Excellence (Acanthus Publishing, 2009).
Books on how to increase your workplace productivity are a dime a dozen, but none of them deal with email mismanagement as a HABIT that can be broken. Inbox Detox goes deeper, highlighting the point that email misuse is a bad habit that can only be fixed by undergoing a series of steps to establish a pattern of good email behavior. The book provides readers with practical, hands-on solutions for how they can tame their inboxes, showing them how to regain real, measurable productive time – fast.
In Inbox Detox, Egan walks readers through first recognizing that unproductive email habits, while easy to spot, can be challenging to change. The key to the process is for them to recognize the habits that are sapping their productivity and rework their approach to technology, starting with identifying the problem. The book includes diagnostic quizzes that allow the reader to gauge how well they deal with both incoming and outgoing email and then offers a 12-step solution for how to “cure” the habit. The second part of the book outlines the healthy email practices the reader should aim for, from green email habits to career-enhancing etiquette. Egan has also included the humorous Toxic E-mailer Alerts!, featuring characters we may recognize in our everyday interactions – or even within ourselves.
“It’s so easy to become a slave to your inbox,” says Egan. “While the solutions may not be rocket science, this book provides a process to take control of your inbox and your life – just one month of focus can bring huge returns.”
Please note: This audio can also be purchased as part of the ‘Inbox Detox’ Digital Bundle.
“An easy read, packed with great info”!
Founder, Design From Your Soul www.designfromyoursoul.com
“You will read the following in the Preface of this most helpful book; “Inbox Detox is your guide to learning the absolutely most efficient ways of handling your e-mail, then changing your habits so that they become engrained and second nature to you. It takes time and focus to change habits, and that habit-shift leads to maintaining an empty inbox, every time you open it.” I can assure you that this is not a sales pitch: It’s 110% accurate! The only thing I’d change about this book might be the title. I might have called it Veni, Vedi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered), because in my case, I came to the conclusion a while back that I needed help with my email problem, I saw the light provided by Marsha in her book, and with her help, I conquered my inbox, forever, and got my life back in the process. Thank you “Marsha Caesar”!”
CEO, BizzBoosters
