We’ve all done it – allowed ourselves to be distracted by email rather than getting busy with the task at hand. Email, while often productive and important, can steal time in the most creative ways. Try these techniques, and encourage your colleagues to do the same. (Note: This email can be used as the topic [...]
Tags: email, email management
How is it that a grown woman/man can procrastinate day after day, month after month, and year after year? Because procrastination works. It keeps you from having to do the task that you just hate to do. Well here’s the news, folks, you can break the habit!
1. Keep a procrastination log. (You’ll enjoy this because [...]
I highly recommend this book: Ask for It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want.
It’s a must-read for all women, not just women in academia. Order it today (and then get your friends to read it, too). Wish I’d had it to read 25 years ago. Let’s just say it [...]
Tags: female faculty, leadership, Linda Babcock, money, negotiation, Sara Laschever, women
We’ve all done it – allowed ourselves to be distracted by email rather than getting busy with the task at hand. Email, while often productive and important, can steal time in the most creative ways. Try these techniques, and encourage your colleagues to do the same. (Note: This email can be used as the topic [...]
Tags: email, email management
Book Recommendations – Email
Hurst, Mark. Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload.
I have been buying this book in large quantities and have now used it in several workshops and have given it to many of my consulting clients. Not only do I love the way this guy writes (he’s very smart, articulate, [...]
Tags: Bit Literacy, book review, email, email management, Mark Hurst
Jensen, Bill. The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Accomplish Less and More.
Are you kidding me? How could I not buy this book? And, I loved it even though I disagreed with portions of it. I gained a number of very useable ideas and appreciate the author’s irreverent style. He is pushing hard to try [...]
Tags: Bill Jensen, email, email management, email simplicity, simplicity
Here are some ideas for keeping email chaos at bay: (Note: the ideas will work for all programs, although the keystrokes are MS Outlook).
Go to your main Inbox. You may only have a few items in there, so you can ignore this, but others reading this have hundreds or thousands of items in the main Inbox [...]
Tags: email, email tips
Goodness, gracious. Sometimes we are just our own worst enemies. You have so many projects to complete, and yet things that are seriously low on the priority list get done first. Here are a few ways to avoid distracting yourself.
1. At the end of the work day, close it out, i.e., put items (files, sticky [...]
Tags: distractions, self-distractions
Sherwood, Kaitlin. Overcome Email Overload: Get Through Your Electronic Mail Faster.
I wish she would update her books, but essentially, Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002 hasn’t changed much with the newer versions. She has a plethora of ideas that I have put into practice. If you use Eudora, she also has a version for that software. VERY HELPFUL!
For [...]
Lurking all around you at home, at work, and everywhere in between, there are tasks, situations, technology, humans (and other mammals) who can potentially steal your time. Be on the lookout for the following time thieves:
Email
Telephone
Drop-in visitors
Procrastination
Self-distraction
Filing systems that aren’t
Energy suckers (which might include gossip or other negative and non-productive interactions)
Slow or inefficient reading
Junk mail
Re-thinking, [...]
Tags: efficiency, email, social media, time thieves
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