Taming the Email & Info Overload Beast: Key Strategies for Better Managing Your E-mail and Office Overload
Every day, managers and professionals are getting buried under a continuing stream of both useful and useless e-mail and information. Without a system for getting “control of these beastsâ€, professionals spend much of their work (and personal) time spinning wheels and feeling highly unsatisfied.
If you would like to get control of your e-mail and office clutter “beastsâ€, attend this program. Learn how to tame your e-mail account, with proven strategies for keeping your inbox and desk under control by building and administering a personal “e-mail/office infrastructure”. Reduce the mess by having “natural†places for your e-mail, papers, documents, and files to go. Learn how to get rid of “quick little†e-mails once and for all, as well as how to mitigate or even eliminate junk and spam. Finally feel on top of e-mail and related activities, rather than feeling it is on top of you.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Understand the nature of e-mail and information/office overload in today’s workplace
- Enact strategies for reducing or eliminating e-mail and office clutter
- Learn money and time saving techniques for converting e-mails into their related tasks and events
- Limit the distracting, interruptive nature of e-mail and related communications, leading to greater focus
- Identify situations where e-mail may not be the best communications solution, with recommendations for better methods
- Integrate specific techniques for better managing professional, personal, and e-commerce related e-mails
- Communicate with greater clarity on sent messages, including smarter strategies for CCs, forwards, and “FYIsâ€
- Greatly reduce the receipt and risk of junk and spam messages
- Manage information/paper clutter at your workstation for greater prioritization (including more “effective procrastinationâ€)
- Understand the need for “proximity†when managing information at your workstation
- Develop a personal information/workstation “infrastructure†for long-term prioritization, productivity, and performance
Additional Information about Randy
Randy Dean, the “Totally Obsessed” time management/e-mail guy, is a professional speaker, author, and sought-after expert on time & e-mail management, effective organization, and the related use of technology. For more than 19 years, Randy has been leading training and speaking programs and presentations for corporate, academic, and association audiences. Obsessed with time management and personal productivity, he left a successful career as a graduate program admissions director, professional marketer, and manager to become a leading speaker and trainer.
The author of the new national productivity sensation and recent Amazon.com #1 E-mail Bestseller, Taming the E-mail Beast: 45 Key Strategies for Better Managing Your E-mail Overload (and Regaining Your E-mail Sanity!) – he has led programs for thousands of satisfied and inspired students, managers, and professionals on being more productive and purposeful with their time and life. His highly informative and entertaining speaking and training programs leave audience members with applicable tools, strategies, and skills on how to better manage their time, technology, e-mail, and office clutter immediately following their program experience.
Targeted Audience
This session is relevant for anyone having difficulty managing e-mail communications, as well as managing information in an office workstation environment. Those using MS Outlook will find the greatest benefit from this course, however, all attendees using any system will find benefits regardless of their system.
Bonus: Door prizes and special pricing on book Randy’s book the evening of the presentation.
When
Tuesday, November 17 2009 5:30–7:30 PM
- Networking and light meal with refreshments start at 5:30 pm until the beginning of the presentation at 6:00 pm.
- Program: 6:00–7:30 PM
Where
Jackson National Life
One Corporate Way
Lansing, MI 48951
Fee
- Chapter Member: $20.00
- Non-Member: $40.00
- Student: $10.00
Note: Additional $15.00 charge for each ticket type will be administered for tickets purchased at the door.
