Dr Email Q&A Forum - December 2020

In this month’s Forum, we answered the following questions relating to getting control of email and workload.

The single most overlooked ingredient for greater focus and productivity at work – see answer here

Q&A session with show n’ tell explanations for;

  1. Is it possible to set an out of office reply for only 1 day a week? For example, if I want to take every Friday off I would love to set up a reply that automatically appears on a Friday only. 

  2. How to set up Out-of-office replies for the holiday period?

  3. How to handle the backlog of email when returning from vacation?

How closely does this graph represent your level of stress about your inbox as Christmas holidays approach?

How closely does this graph represent your level of stress about your inbox as Christmas holidays approach?

We also discussed this quote from the recent James Clear 3-2-1 ezine

"The more disciplined your environment is, the less disciplined you need to be. Don't swim upstream."

and how the Revolutionise Your Inbox program helps to ‘discipline your inbox environment’ so that you don’t have to use so much of your own willpower, headspace and discipline to manage it.

And more . . .

Click here to learn more about Outlook’s Conversation Clean Up tool (ideal when returning from holiday)

Click here to join our Email Productivity Support Group on Facebook

Click here to connect with me on Linked In

Click on image below to watch the recording. Pause, Stop, Rewind and Speed up to suit yourself.

Steuart Snooks