Cohesive Knowledge Solutions specializes in helping you deal with email overload. The company has what sounds like a very useful, short book, “The Hamster Revolution” — a 90-minute read. They also offer corporate training.
Examples of useful, practical advice:
- Send fewer emails, and you’ll receive fewer.
- Strengthen subject lines and structure email bodies more carefully: Explain the topic up front, use bullet points, be concise, etc.
- Coach colleagues on good practices.
- Have low-priority email automatically routed to folders.
- Disconnect the dings and whistles, to reduce disruptions.
- Increase the send/receive schedule. Many people have five-minute email check cycles; most people will find that checking every 30 minutes is fine.
For details, go here.
Stay tuned. We will be blogging a series on email overload, starting soon.