Need more time? Feel like you are not getting anything done? Too much email? For many of us email is a huge time waster. Part of that is quantity, part of that is efficiency. One of the best ways to combat the email avalanche is to only touch each email once. I spoke with a Senior Executive at my company back at the leadership conference I attended and he told me that he only works 40-45 hours a week. One of his biggest times savers is this rule. Here is how you do it.
Read the email and immediately respond
If you can’t immediately respond because additional work is required, flag it for later.
If you’ve read the email and it is not flagged, never read it again
Don’t file every email. Search is good enough to find what you need faster then looking in your filing system.
Best of all, if it really is important and you miss it, people will follow up with you. If they don’t, the topic really wasn’t that important.
Thats it. Do these things and you will take back control of your email.
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