Some of our tasks require us to have a lot of interaction with others through meetings, email exchanges, chat conversations, and phone calls. For other tasks, we need ...
Chat-based collaboration platforms like Teams and Slack are increasingly replacing internal emailing in many ...
If you receive a lot of emails, you may find that the inbox and everything it contains feels more or less like a jumble you have to trudge through every day ...
In order to make yourself wholeheartedly “uninterruptible” when you need to focus, you need to ...
I have often used the verb “process" to describe how I (and I am sure you as well) deal with what comes in via emails and other messaging channels in a systematic way ...
Are you spending time on the right things? Are you spending the right amount of time on the right things? Or, are you wasting ...
Have you experienced this? You are working on a task that requires your concentration. As part of the task, you need to..
A while ago, I addressed the issue of remembering to read, respond to, or in some other way acknowledge messages you ...
Even if we work digitally most of the time we sometimes need to print things. It can be something that needs to be ...
Do you allow emails to remain in the inbox until you have done everything you needed to do as a consequence of receiving it? If you do, this means ...
Every time I give a lecture and speak of how we can deal with our email in a more structured way it becomes clear that ...
Have you ever been distracted by an email you see just as you're about to send a quick message?
In this week’s episode of Done!, you’ll learn how to send a quick email without ...
Amongst many other useful tips in his book "Deep Work", Cal Newport shares what he calls his “shutdown ritual”, which is a method intended to ...
One of the many small annoyances related to these digital times is that we tend to have a rather large number of ...
A smart habit that makes emailing and chatting easier – do all colleagues need to be on board for your work to run more smoothly?
Do you usually begin by doing the short, simple tasks you have on your to-do list when the list of tasks is long and you have a lot to do? I do, and if you do as well, we are both ...
How free do you actually feel when you’re off work?
If you’re a manager, entrepreneur, or have a key role in your job, you often need to be “somewhat available” even when ...
When you receive emails with files attached, these are usually not supposed to ...
In a study conducted at Carleton University, the researchers Duxbury and Lanctot found that the 1500 participants in the study spend on average a third of their work time processing emails...
One aspect of working with good structure is getting things done with as little effort as possible - preferably automatically, without any effort at all ...
