It takes time to get through emails on a daily basis. Even if you follow good email organization (see my blog post here: 4 Steps to Becoming More Responsive), it takes a lot of time to read and respond to the important emails and to follow up on the less important ones.
If you find yourself responding in a similar way to certain emails, then you can use “canned” email responses to work more efficiently.
Let’s say, […]
I generally advise my clients to install a task management application and to integrate it with email, so that they’re not using email to manage tasks. I write about that here: How to Integrate Email with Task Management.
Google, with its Inbox app, is trying to get people to do the opposite – to dump the task management app and use email instead. You can read more about Google’s Inbox here: How to Manage Your Gmail […]
The average business worker sends and receives over 120 business emails per day and spends nearly 30 percent of the workweek managing email. Together with personal email, 205 billion emails are sent emails each day—a number expected to increase over 16 percent to 246 billion emails in 2019.
Email overload can result in anxiety and a feeling of guilt.
It can be stressful to see your Inbox growing out of control and there is an increased risk […]
It’s very common to procrastinate on dealing with your email overload.
Does this sound familiar to you?
You dread sitting down at your desk to look at email.
You stay at your desk longer every day to try to stay on top of your inbox.
The size of your inbox keeps increasing.
You have not just emails from your co-workers, clients, friends, and family, but also emails from school lists, notifications from social networks, and newsletters from retailers, vendors, […]
Email is becoming an inefficient way to communicate.
Does this sound like you?
You dread sitting down at your desk to look at email and feel guilty and anxious at the sight of your overflowing inbox
You stay at your desk longer every day to try to stay on top of your inbox.
The size of your inbox keeps increasing.
You have not just emails from your co-workers, clients, friends, and family, but also emails from school lists, notifications from […]
If you’ve gone through the process of email organization (see my blog post here: 4 Steps to Becoming More Responsive), then you hopefully have a streamlined inbox with just the most important emails.
You also should have a daily routine of dealing with those emails that consists of:
Evaluating
Acting On, filing, or flagging for follow-up
Flagging an email in Outlook creates a follow-up to-do item.
Your email is not only marked with a flag in your Inbox, it’s also […]
Microsoft Office has been a workhorse for years.
Many of us first became accustomed to it in our corporate work. If you’re still working in a corporate setting or if you’re creating detailed documents, spreadsheets, or presentations on a PC, there’s still nothing that beats Office for standard and more advanced content creation.
Office is not cheap.
A single license of Office Home and Student costs $120, but we’re often working on multiple devices these days. If you […]
Staying on top of email chaos is not easy.
Even after you’ve followed the steps to manage your email inbox (see my blog post here: 4 Steps to Becoming More Responsive), you still need to deal with those emails that need a follow-up task. How do you make sure that you get those done, and that they don’t get lost in the daily shuffle?
There may be event invitations that you leave in your Inbox to remember […]
Email can be difficult to deal with in an efficient and organized way.
Keeping emails organized into folders can help you to find the right email conversation, as can using your email search tools. But email correspondence is just one part of the story. If you’re trying to put together the history of working with a client, for example, you’ll have to search separately for related client files and notes. It’s not difficult to do, but […]
Do you suffer from email overload?
Terrible, isn’t it? Every time you open your Inbox the email just flows in like a waterfall.
The challenges with managing email are myriad. Here are a few:
Feeling overwhelmed before even getting started
Losing track of an email and asking the sender to send the email again. (Now there are 2 copies in the Inbox!)
Difficulty prioritizing
Looking at, but not dealing with emails. This becomes an unproductive pattern.
Email seems more like a curse […]
