Have you ever been on the receiving end of this type of poor email management? I have just put the phone down on a support call for a client who raised this issue from his inbox and worload management immediately prior to our call. It is hard to believe that a [...]
Like you, I subscribe to a number of email newsletters that I consider to be inspirational, interesting or plain useful to me. Because the 80/20 Rule is ruthless, some are obviously more valuable than others. These are the ones I want to make time to feed upon. That means I [...]
When it comes to managing our purpose, our goals, multiple projects, competing priorities and the tsunami of to-dos, emails and other communications that tumble out of them, I am relatively ‘Tool Agnostic’. Sure, a lot of our client work focuses on helping their people implement and sustain best practice workload management [...]
Is there a ‘Best Way’ to triage yourself out of email overload? You already have an email management approach for these situations, (you do, after all, have a good track record in delivering your results at work). You already know that you need to make priority decisions quickly on your emails so you [...]
One of the really useful email productivity enhancements in Microsoft Outlook 2010 is the Social Connector and the People Pane functionality that is built into the software. In a generous move, Microsoft has made this functionality available free to Outlook 2003 and 2007 users via [...]
Here’s a real quick communication management tip applied to Microsoft Outlook and driven through your email inbox. OK, so you get an email from a work colleague who is not sitting near you and who you haven’t seen around the office yet (Most of your emails do come from your colleagues don’t [...]
You have got a busy schedule, you are juggling competing priorities, commitments and meetings. You need to offer a number of meeting options to a client, supplier or friend who does not have access to your shared Outlook calendar on your network. Here’s a simple Outlook tip to do this: [...]
Microsoft Outlook 2007 and 2010 automatically adds a flagged email to your ‘To Do List’ in your Tasks folder. This includes old email items (including archived) from Outlook 2003 when you upgraded. How do you get rid of these legacy flagged email tasks without deleting the original emails? How do you bulk [...]
Google has just announced the death of ‘Google Wave’, its highest profile project within Google Labs. So, Email is NOT dead – not yet anyway Wave is a real time messaging platform that promised to revolutionize real time collaboration within distributed teams and I – along with many others - [...]
Many people are annoyed with the fact that their Microsoft Outlook programme, running in Windows 7 will no longer allow a single click access to email attachments and the ‘Opening Mail Attachment’ dialog box has the option ‘Always ask before opening this type of file’ greyed out and unable to [...]
