Ep 8: How resilient leaders manage email

Leaders have a love/hate relationship with email. We can’t live with it, we can’t live without it. So how do we manage emails so we can get on to more important things like leading? On this episode J.R. shares 15 ridiculously practical and crucial email principles resilient leaders can live by.
Here are the Crucial 15:

1. Respond to every personal email you receive within 24-48 hours
2. Emails should be 5 sentences or less - unless you are writing to a group of people who need specific instructions. If more than 5 sentences, pick up the phone.
3. Be clear. Be clear. Be clear.
4. Use cc and bcc functions appropriately.
5. Don’t do the slow drip approach to email.
6. Eliminate notifications from your phone
7. Do not use ‘reply all’ unless specifically instructed to do so by the sender.
8. Eliminate as many grammatical errors and typos as possible.
9. Email is for information transfer, not emotional engagement.
10. Refrain from ending an email with the line “let me know how I can help.”
11. Effective people always add value to people’s lives. Therefore, seek to add value to others in your emails.
12. Don’t read your email each morning until you’ve eaten three frogs.
13. Operation Inbox Five: work to have no more than 5 emails in your inbox at any given time
14. Unsubscribe from all unnecessary email subscription lists.
15. Remember: just five sentences or less.

***
If you enjoy this podcast, can we ask a 45 second favor of you? Can you leave a review for us on iTunes or Stitcher? It would help us as we seek to equip more leaders in the days ahead.
For our full list of episodes and topics, visit: https://www.kairospartnerships.org/resilient-leaders-podcast
Sign up for 5 Things in 5 Minutes, a resource published every other week and sent to your inbox with the 5 things every leader should know. Good news: it only takes you 5 minutes to read. It’s free. It’s easy. Sign up at www.kairospartnerships.org/newsletter
Follow J.R.
Kairos Partnerships: www.kairospartnerships.org
Contact: www.kairospartnerships.org/contact
Twitter: @jr_briggs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jrbriggs1/
Instagram: @jrbri.ggs
Resilient Leaders is produced by Joel Limbauan at On a Limb Productions: www.onalimbproductions.com