Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I’m Simon Calder from SimonSezIT.com and host of the Simon Sez IT Tech Show at www.SimonSezIT.com/tips
During this week’s edition of the TPN Weekly, we’re going to start the New Year by providing practical tips for overcoming email overload. We’ve reached a tipping point where the deluge of email is making us less productive instead of more productive. While still a great communication tool, we need to get things under control. I’ll provide 10 practical tips to help you start the New Year on solid footing.
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Overcoming Email Overload
- Focus on CPT – critical productivity time
- Turn new email notifications off
- Use rules to organize your email
- Resort to “traditional” methods of communication
- Use newer methods of communication
- Be less formal
- Read the email, then reply
- Use search tools
- Don’t be emotional
- Set aside time each day or 1 day each week to organize your email
I hope you enjoyed the show. Be sure to stop by SimonSezIT.com/tips for all of our previous shows, SimonSezIT.com for software video training tutorials, and my other tech blog, HotButteredIT.com.
Wishing you a successful and prosperous 2010!
Warmly,
Simon