Is Your Email Out of Control?
January 29th, 2007 by binnur
The authors of The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You decided to tackle the ever growing problem of handling email overload. As part of this, they also created an eLearning course on improving your email efficiency and etiquette. You can check-out their website at: hamsterrevolution.com.
The impact of the increased email overload is astonishing! It is quite possible that your teams are spending 40-50% of their valuable time processing email and sitting in meetings (very likely processing email while they do so). Although email is a great tool for asynchronous communication, it is not always the most appropriate method. In this quick and easy to read book, authors tackle the question of how to start reclaiming your life by reducing your email load and organizing your information.
Here are my key takeaways from The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You for dealing with your email:
- Reduce the number of emails you receive — send less to get less;
- Reduce the time spent in processing your email — improve the email quality;
The authors have more suggestions and ideas in the book, including how to manage Reply All effectively, utilizing instant messaging tools for reducing and improving communication, becoming an effective coach to your teams, as well as organizing your documents and files with COTA (Client, Output, Team, Admin).
Increasing the productivity of our day-to-day administrative tasks will certainly help improve our creativity and increase the time spent innovating. So, start today by reducing your email load and the time you spend in email!
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