Personal Email Management: Riding the wave or caught in the undertow?

Riding the wave…

or caught in the undertow?

Personal Email Management

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

- Ambrose Bierce

about me...

How large is

your firm?

Where do you sit?

Transformational

Operational

Staff

Management

HOW MANY HH A DAY?

asmatteri

ng

more thanmy fair share

Et tu, Brute?

How painful is your inbox?

What arrives?

Action Reference Trash

Why do we care?

Do we reallyneed it all?in real time?

theproblem

So, how do we dig out?

Email

http://gawker.com/254608/

DMZ

www.43folders.com/2006/01/04/email-dmz

The

with extreme prejudice

Inbox Zero

inboxzero.com

Timebox

VIP Access

Automate!

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2011/10/24/outlook-quick-steps-shortcuts.aspx

Only file things you’ll actually need to reference later.

Retraining your coworkers - tip #1:

http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/productivity/emailtips.aspx

These people need to do something

These people are being informed of somethingThis line should change as the thread changes

Value their time

...and they will value yours.

The Doctrine of Completed Staff Work

Retrain your coworkers - tip #2:

http://asq.org/pub/qualityprogress/past/0307/qp0307career.html

recapown it

start fresh(ish)reduce your intake

make exercising a prioritylet the machines do some work

convince your coworkers to join a gym