How to get control of e-mail ‘overload’
Do you often feel that you:
- Receive too many e-mails every day?
- Are checking your in-box for new e-mails all day long?
- Have difficulty deciding which e-mails are critical and which are non-critical?
- Would like to understand how to handle e-mail more effectively?
- Would like to be able to keep your
- in-box empty?
The Challenge of E-mail Overload
One of the biggest issues facing busy professionals, managers and their staff in 2009 will be the increasing complaints about “loss of productivity”, “being overwhelmed“, feeling “stressed“ and even staff “burnout” as a result of e-mail ‘overload’.
Although e-mail overload is widely recognised as a problem, there is a tendency to accept it as a nuisance and a cost of doing business without realising its full implications. It has a severe but much under-estimated impact on employee productivity and worklife balance, while organisations incur the ‘hidden’ cost of extensive financial loss.
E-mail messages are here to stay. While the volume of communication increases exponentially, the time available to process it remains unchanged. Learning a range of proven, practical Best Practices will deliver an immediate and significant improvement in both productivity and morale.
How the cost adds up
Although e-mail overload is widely recognised as a problem, there is a tendency to accept it as a nuisance and a cost of doing business without understanding its full implications. However, the cost, though hidden, can be severe!
Time is money. Even if half an hour is wasted each day sorting through emails can equate to a cost of at least $4500 per employee!* Now take this figure and multiply it by the number of staff using e-mail in your organisation. The cost is enormous!
* Based on 200 business days a year. 200 x 0.5 = 100 hours per year at $45 per hour wage = $4500
The Solution
Training staff how to deal with it more effectively with e-mail on a daily basis will help to increase individual performance, productivity and morale. Most importantly, it will reduce many of the ‘hidden’ costs associated with current e-mail handling practices in your organisation.
That’s exactly why the proven “Taming The E-mail Tiger” workshop has been designed. This half day open workshop will teach you a range of highly practical and easily implemented strategies that will significantly reduce the amount of time spent in reading and handling e-mail. The time saving is huge!
The Benefits
Here’s some of the benefits to be gained from this half-day program;
- Understand the problems with the current culture of
- e-mail ‘overload’
- ‘Best Practice’ strategies for better e-mail management – 6 Golden Rules for handling e-mail effectively and keeping your In-box empty
- Significantly reduce the amount of time you spend reading, writing and handling e-mail and attachments
- Recognise the most appropriate times you should and should NOT look at your In-box
- Reduce the constant sense of ‘urgency’ and interruptions from e-mail and increase your ability to distinguish between critical and non-critical emails
- How to structure e-mail messages and subject lines in a way that enables key information to be quickly and easily understood
- Increase your workplace performance, productivity and morale
- Reduced costs for your department and organisation
All this in a practical, information-packed, time-effective, half day format.
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The Next Step
Register your interest for this workshop by sending your name and contact details and we’ll send you a FREE copy of our 30 Superb E-mail Tips & Tricks.