Is email compromising your executive’s leadership skills?

Why do senior executives get caught up spending high value time and effort doing such low value activity as sifting, sorting, prioritising and checking their own email?.

In the days before email, you would never have seen a senior executive sifting through the mail room. So, why do they do it now? Research over the past five years shows that senior executives spend 75 days per year ‘doing email’.

The dollar value of that equates to $55k per year. Most importantly, this time is often spent after hours (early mornings, weeknights and weekends), so now what is it really costing them?

How has this situation come about?

Firstly, it’s because executives are more accessible than ever before. They receive email from people who would normally be screened or filtered out if they tried to reach the executive via phone or in person. Along with that, executives, as decision makers in an organisation, are prime targets for a large number of emails from colleagues, subordinates, suppliers, and sales people.

As a result . . . click here to read more