Dr Email Online Q&A Forum - 17 April 2020

Here are answers to some of the questions I answered in today’s Dr Email Forum.

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“My manager has over 1500 emails currently in her in box, part of the problem is she is too afraid of deleting anything. How can I manage this?”

Click on video at right to watch Steuart’s answer

“Is there a way to colour code just one calendar entry of a repeating calendar event, i.e. to code complete?”

Click on video at left to watch Steuart’s answer

“Could you provide a list of suggested books I could read to help me be more productive?”

Here’s a short list of books I recommend;

• The First Two Hours by Donna McGeorge

• Atomic Habits by James Clear

• Deep Work by Cal Newport

• Solutions to Information Overload by Nathan Zeldes

• Mindset by Carol Dweck

Part of our discussion was that, in the current COVID 19 environment, many EAs feel that their role is undervalued by their boss (and even in their own eyes) but I reminded them that while the boss is the head, that head turns on a neck (their EA) and the following short clip from My Big Fat Greek Wedding summarises this nicely.

We discussed some of the excellent concepts that Donna McGeorge write about in her book “The First 2Hours” and the model that the book is based upon.