How to Control Your Inbox – Use Rules
12 November 2015As I work with people around the world on their productivity issues, everyone shares one common challenge – too much time spent on email. One really simple strategy can make a huge difference, and yet hardly anyone uses it. When correctly set up, Rules save you filing time, make it far easier to keep your […]
Danger – email trap ahead!
18 July 2015What work task do you start the day with? Is it email? Many of us think ‘I’ll just get this out of the way and then I’ll be clear for the big jobs.’ And then what happens? Have you noticed that email seems to take on a life of its own? I had another excellent […]
Two Simple Email Tips That Will Save You Hours Per Week
26 March 2015I’ve just been running a ‘Getting a Grip on Email, Paper and the Office Environment’ workshop for a large Government department in Wellington. Here are two email tips that got the folks really excited. They couldn’t wait to get back to their desks and start using them. I’ll share the instructions in Outlook 2010, and […]
An Interview With Email and Information Overload Expert Steuart Snooks
3 May 2013Every month Robyn Pearce interviews an expert with world-class information to share with her GettingAGrip Inner Circle members. If you’re interested to know more, check out www.gettingagrip.com/membership. You’re welcome to trial a subscription for only $1 for the first month and can cancel at any time. Members can download all past interviews in audio, the […]
Shocking Statistics On Email As A Productivity Stealer
2 May 2013Time management and productivity consultant Robyn Pearce follows up on her controversial ideas on email overload: I knew my last article ‘Don’t make email the first thing of the day‘ would be a tad controversial. I didn’t expect quite so many responses! Of course there are exceptions some of which I outlined in the last […]
Don’t Do Email First Thing In The Day
At all my face-to-face events I hand out a little card to participants. It has my contact information on one side but the true value is the list of ‘Eight Top Time Tips’ on the reverse side. No. 8 on the list is ‘Don’t make email the first thing in the day’. This almost always gets questions […]
A Smorgasbord of Handy E-mail Hints
5 February 2013Email Threads: You may have heard people talk about email threads. This means keeping the subject alive, usually with the same subject header. You’ll find it a great way to keep the sense of a discussion. However, there are a few simple techniques to make sure it is truly useful. 1. Delete irrelevant material from […]
What Can We Throw, So Murphy Doesn’t Come Back To Bite Us?
4 February 2013My grandmother raised her family through the Great Depression of the 1920s and 30s. Anyone who lived through that time had a very real well-reinforced reason not to throw anything out. The challenge she left when she died, however, was the long-lasting result of that ‘might-be-useful-one-day’ attitude. My mother and aunties had to weave their […]
How to manage the client who is always late
21 June 2012Discussions to find proactive solutions for this common problem at a training session I was running recently included: ‘We often struggle to manage a lot of last-minute deadlines. We’re organised but a lot of clients are regularly late sending in their information. As a consequence it sometimes puts impossible pressure on us to meet tax […]
Replying quickly to email is bad time management
15 June 2012If you’re replying immediately to every mail as soon as it arrives, you’re also sending an invisible message that could be interpreted as: ‘I’ve got nothing too important to work on. That’s why I’m sitting here sending you an instant response.’ Email is my top priority.’ If so, why? And what are your real priorities? […]