Avoid being interrupted by new messages.
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How you can avoid procrastination and indecision.
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Why the inbox is not your to do list.
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I recently spoke with Mark McInnes about how executives are managing their email overload and how we can best reach out to them.
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It’s easy to forget important actions and tasks when they’re buried amongst so many other messages in your inbox. When you do finally get around to addressing them, it is usually under time pressure with a deadline looming (or already past).
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The key principle in getting control of email.
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The Top 5 best sign-offs are;
Kind regards - 69%
Thanks or thanks again - 46%
Regards - 31%
Thanks in advance - 21%
Best wishes - 20%
Your time is far too limited and valuable to ever look at any new message more than once! An empty inbox allows you to keep up with your workload, meet deadlines and saves you having to come in early, work through lunch, stay back late or use weekends to ‘catch up’ with all your email.
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Welcome to the 13th International Clean Out Your Inbox Week - day 5. This initiative was started by American Productivity expert Marsha Egan as an annual event to promote the idea of starting off the new year with an empty inbox and a fresh outlook.
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Welcome to the 13th International Clean Out Your Inbox Week - day 4. This initiative was started by American Productivity expert Marsha Egan as an annual event to promote the idea of starting off the new year with an empty inbox and a fresh outlook.
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Welcome to the 13th International Clean Out Your Inbox Week - day 3. This initiative was started by American Productivity expert Marsha Egan as an annual event to promote the idea of starting off the new year with an empty inbox and a fresh outlook.
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The 13th International Clean Out Your Inbox Week - day 2. This initiative was started by American Productivity expert Marsha Egan as an annual event to promote the idea of starting off the new year with an empty inbox and a fresh outlook.
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Day 1 of the 13th International Clean Out Your Inbox Week
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The inbox is often filled with a backlog of weeks or months of old work yet to be accomplished, messages that need a reply (including an apology for being so tardy), and irrelevant messages that have to be weeded out.
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When it comes to email, leaders should be like a thermostat, rather than a thermometer.
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My view on how to handle email effectively on a smartphone…
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Why you should write an email backwards!
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Why the inverted pyramid structure is best for email.
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Starting your day on the right foot is key to success. But how you handle your email could be slowing you down from the get go.
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Do you find that many of the emails you send require you to also follow them up some time in the future? Have you tried flagging them?
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