Sure, email can make business communications quick and easy but when you can't find an important message or have an overflowing inbox it can feel like your worst nightmare.
To help you tame the electronic mail beast, Business Sense offers the following productivity tips:
1. Tone it down - turn off your email program's ability to check for new mail at regular intervals; instead, only collect new mail when you're ready
2. Avoid double handling - act on every email as soon as you read it by replying, archiving or deleting it immediately
3. Think about others - before you automatically press 'reply all' think about who really needs to see your reply
4. Aim for zero - try to clear out your inbox completely at least once a week, even if this means moving emails into subfolders like 'active' or 'pending'
5. Go email free - get back in tune with other forms of communication by having an email-free day each week
The average email is less than 250 words long and yet most are riddled with spelling and grammar errors.
In my opinion, one of the main reasons that emails are the foe of many is that accuracy is sacrificed for speed.
Posted by: Cecilia | 09 September 2008 at 10:13 PM