TAMING THE EMAIL MONSTER
Future-ready Personal Productivity with AI:
The AI Productivity Advantage
Using Artificial Intelligence tools to save time, drive better results and future-ready your career.
The Future-Ready Leader’s AI Advantage
Using AI tools to achieve a more strategic focus, increase personal productivity and become a better leader.
The Managing Me suite of core courses:
Planning & Prioritizing for Change
How to manage your priorities, time and energy in the new game of hybrid work and constant change.
Planning & Prioritizing for Change: Leader’s Version
How to get out of the weeds and carve out more time for your strategic priorities. Leading Self in order to better Lead others.
Preventing Burnout
Practical strategies to help busy, time-crunched people prevent burnout.
Other Programs:
Masterful Meetings (Virtual, In-Person & Hybrid)
Making our Meetings Engaging & Productive.
Strategic Thinking
Tools & techniques to help you spark innovation, achieve better results and turn challenge into opportunity.
Managing Expectations & Negotiating Priorities
How to prioritize, and when necessary, diplomatically negotiate some incoming demands on your time.
Mastering the Mental Game of Resilience
Easy to implement best practices to help you stay energized, resilient and focused.
Taming the Email Monster
More Control. Less Stress.
New! On-line, on-demand:
Pay Your Priorities First
How to carve out more time for the strategic priorities that will most help you grow and succeed.
More Control. Less Stress.
Taming the Email Monster provides individuals & teams with insight and strategies to manage their email more effectively. It goes beyond the technology to take a behaviour-based approach to email management – helping participants identify opportunities to change how they organize, send and respond to email. This program is available in a live and virtual format.
The virtual version of this course is 90-120 minutes & the in-person version is 2-3 hours.
Filtering, Sorting and filing: Keeping the Inbox Clean
- A Four Step Process to help us filter, sort & file large volumes of email – keeping the Inbox clean and reducing overwhelm.
- Tracking action email so that it doesn’t slip through the cracks and we’re able to follow-up in a timely manner.
- Learning how to use various Outlook email features.
- Developing consistent routines for organizing email and keeping the Inbox clean.
- Optional: Supporting compliance with corporate email retention policy
Resisting the Noise
- Understanding the costs of over-reacting to email. (Hint: 10 IQ Points)
- Increasing our capacity to deliver on priority A tasks and service requests by reducing time spent unnecessarily reacting to priority “b” email.
- Reducing “MRS” – Mindless React Syndrome. Identifying and implementing productive expectations with others and ourselves.
Netiquette
- Applying more thought to what we send, how we send it and who we send it to.
- Best practices of sending email – proper subject lines, no unnecessary CC, etc. – that will save everyone time.
- Optional: Building consensus on a corporate “Rules of Engagement” for email.
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I help teams and individuals do more with less, reduce stress and carve out more time for their true priorities.