Here are some great tips from Fast Company’s Work Smart Column on how to manage your email after being out of the office for several days. http://www.fastcompany.com/article/work-smart-how-to-power-through-a-mountain-of-e-mail#
In the first line of your e-mail, place the action request. Too many e-mail messages are too long, and unfortunately bury the action that the sender is requesting of the reader. … Continue reading E-mail tip: be very clear about what action you want the reader to take
There are some people who intuitively understand and have the discipline to not be interrupted, and there are others who allow themselves to be interrupted continually. The ding or the … Continue reading Email Management: How to detect who is mismanaging their email
Efficiency Tip: Sort (rather than work) your email Please forward this tip to every e-mailer you know… Let’s help each other be more efficient. Here’s the tip: Too many emailers … Continue reading Email Efficiency Tip: Sort (rather than work) your email
Should I send a blind copy of an email to myself, so that I have a record of it? NO. NO. NO! That’s extra work. That will create another email … Continue reading Ask Marsha: Should I send a blind copy of an email to myself?
Email is NOT a meeting! Don’t try to make it one! Some people use e-mail to “discuss” issues and gain opinions. Each time an opinion question is sent to numerous … Continue reading Email is NOT a meeting!
Viral Efficiency Tip: Top-Down Inbox Please forward this tip to every e-mailer you know… Let’s help each other be more efficient. Here’s the email efficiency tip: Sort your newly received … Continue reading Email Efficiency Tip: Top-Down Inbox
The average worker today focuses on a task for about three minutes – that’s it. Then, they’re interrupted or they interrupt themselves. Multitasking is a bunch of hooey. You can’t … Continue reading Email Interruptions: Is MultiTasking causing us to think less deeply?
There are so many things on our to do lists, that we’ll never get it all done. While the challenge is to work smarter rather than longer, sometimes it is … Continue reading Productivity: Working More or Working Smarter?
OK OK. We all know that the more organized we are, the more efficient we can be… But what does that mean? Here are 12 Tips that you might consider … Continue reading 12 Tips for an Organized Desk
Today’s free resource comes with a slight hitch. For you to receive this five-page PDF of e-mail best practices, you have got to have an empty inbox! After all, it … Continue reading Clean Out Your Inbox Week – Friday’s Free Resource – “Reduce Your Email, Reclaim Your Productivity”
