10 Rules To Reverse The Email Spiral
You may be familiar with the process of arriving to work, motivated to accomplish everything on your to-do list, only to spend the first two, maybe even three hours of the morning answering emails. Ahhh, so fulfilling — well, that’s what we tell ourselves to make it through it seems.
Let’s face it, email can be a time consuming hassle, often with little feeling of accomplishment. Could there be another way to email that is more efficient? To the rescue: emailcharter.org.
The Email Charter was created in response to widespread acknowledgement that email is getting out of hand for many people. The Charter started as a blog post and the idea quickly struck a chord. More than 45,000 people read the post and it generated hundreds of tweets, comments and suggestions. That is how the final Charter was shaped.
| 1. Respect Recipients’ Time 2. Short or Slow is not Rude 3. Celebrate Clarity 4. Quash Open-Ended Questions 5. Slash Surplus cc’s |
6. Tighten the Thread 7. Attack Attachments 8. Give these Gifts: EOM NNTR 9. Cut Contentless Responses 10. Disconnect! |
The Charter is a 10 Rule process to reversing the email spiral. To take a look and sign on to this notion, go to emailcharter.org.