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
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
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
Here are some ways to keep email chaos at bay. Note: the ideas will work for all programs, although the keystrokes are MS Outlook.
Understand that “cleaning up/clearing out” time needs to be set aside, in the same way that you set aside time to “clean up/clear out” your office.
Look in your calendar now and set aside some [...]
Tags: email, email inbox, email tips
Goodness, gracious–email can cause chaos and can help us resolve some chaos. I hear this in my workshops and in conversations and I live with it myself. Here are a few ideas related to email and Keys to Keeping Your Email Chaos at Bay.
Open your email a specified number of times each day (vs. having it [...]
Tags: chaos, email, email tips
Morgenstern, Julie. Never Check E-Mail in the Morning (And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work).
Morgenstern originally published this book under the title: Making Work Work, and then realized that the provocative phrase “Never Check Email in the Morning” would make her book fly off the shelves. It should fly off the shelf [...]
Tags: email, email management, Julie Morgenstern
I am not sure what your email backlog is, but here are two possibilities:
Unread emails which show up as “bold” to indicate they are all unread.
Emails that are all “read” but you haven’t processed them.
This post is to give you specific ideas for dealing with the more current backlog of emails in your inbox. For [...]
Tags: email, email backlog, email tips
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