Got Email? - Part 1

Got Email? Of course - who doesn’t? We know managers who get 200 (or more!) emails every day. Email is a necessary evil in the corporate world, and highly effective professionals know how to get the most out of their email WITHOUT spending too much time on it.

In this podcast we talk about how to make your technology work for you, and how you can spend less time on email while getting more done.

Email is probably one of the most - if not THE most - widely used professional communication tools out there, and probably the most abused of all professional communication tools. It has the potential to have an incredibly positive impact on productivity, and communication, and even management, it is just horribly abused to the point where when people start talking about email, they just get irritated. There’s too much of it, it’s poorly done, it doesn’t serve its purpose, and people use it for all kinds of wrong reasons.

Before email happened, people had a lot more face-to-face meetings. You have face-to-face meetings, you develop a relationship, based on a relationship there’s some trust, and when there’s trust you understand why somebody did something the way they did, and why something may be messed up. But if your “relationship” (if you can even call it that) exists only through email, it’s bound to be full of confusion, complexity, and misunderstanding.