Friday, March 1, 2019

E- MAIL SPECIAL.....HOW TO HANDLE THE DREADED OFFICE EMAIL


HOW TO HANDLE THE DREADED OFFICE EMAIL

Experts argue that it is not compulsory to respond to every work email one gets

Author Charles Duhigg says he judges his performance at work by his email activity. Specifically, the fewer emails he sends, the more effectively he must have been working. For many, Duhigg’s admission is nothing short of a revelation as people usually struggle to manage their work inbox.
According to an oped in The New York Times by Wharton professor Adam Grant, there’s a link between how you handle email and how successful you are professionally. It cited a Microsoft study that found the least effective managers were also the slowest to respond to emails. Plus, Grant says, it’s downright rude to ignore all your emails. His rejoinder to folks who insist that their inbox is “other people’s priorities”: “Your priorities should include other people and their priorities.” In The Times article, Grant recommends letting people know when you can’t help them out by saying, for example, “I don’t have the bandwidth to add this.”
Grant acknowledges that you don’t have to respond to every email you receive. On his “no” list: strangers asking you to share their content on social media or to introduce you to some fancy people in your network.
Just because you miss an email (or two) doesn’t mean you’re an unsuccessful person. As Laura Vanderkam writes in her timemanagement book I Know How She Does It — “Better to realise that anything you haven’t gotten to after a week or so will have either gone away or been thrust back upon you by follow-up messages or calls. You can probably stop thinking about it. Earth will not crash into the sun.”
The takeaway here is about shifting your mindset. Spending an hour or so every day addressing thoughtful emails with thoughtful responses isn’t necessarily a waste of time. While you might not win any awards or even brownie points for being the most responsive emailer of all time; but at the very least, you’ll show some respect for people who used time and energy to write to you.
businessinsider.in


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