No, we’re not talking about dishes or laundry or mowing the lawn. We’re referring to
email and the endless, soul-sucking task of tending to one’s inbox.
We can all agree that email is, at best, an imperfect form of communication. The back and forth is clunky and time-consuming, and it’s easy to misread tone.
For every "meeting that could have been an email," there are at least three convoluted email chains that should have been a phone call.
And the reply-all function is truly the stuff of nightmares.
On top of all that — research shows that, beyond being generally annoying, managing emails spikes our stress response and causes more feelings of anxiety than productivity.
So, can we just ditch it? 😂
Probably not… yet. Thanks to the increasing popularity of other collaboration tools, like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom — and the influence of a younger generation who are less entrenched in email — most organizations are starting to spend less time in their inboxes.
But email has been the go-to form of communication for decades; it’s going to be a while before it goes the way of the fax machine.
Until then, there are ways to make it suck a lot less. And maybe that’s starting with knowing when NOT to send an email.
Can you imagine if everyone understood just that?
— OfficeNinjas HQ
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Sure, school’s out for summer. 😎 But now is the perfect time to plan for your return to learning this September.
September 8-9 is the Fall session of the OfficeNinjas and UC Berkeley Leadership & Communication Program for Admin+ professionals.
Will you make executive-level learning a priority this year?
You’ll learn how to elevate your leadership presence in your organization. And you’ll come away with an actionable plan for how to bring your learnings back to the office — and to successfully execute on them.
This is the last time the Leadership & Communication Program will be offered in 2022 — which means it’s your last chance this year to experience leadership training the way executives do.
There’s no other program like this for Admin+ professionals.
It costs nothing to apply — and everything to gain.
The former director of the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor says that times of radical turmoil are also times for radical opportunities. And one place that definitely needs radical change is the world of work for women.
Maybe, according to a study on what your LinkedIn profile says about your personality.
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