Reducing Overhead with a Communication Plan

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A communication plan can help reduce overhead by taming the way coordination and collaboration occurs, making it more focused and efficient. Writing a communication plan for a company or team can reduce the footprint of necessary coordination and collaboration. The plan can include guidelines for using email, such as using it for announcements, urgent questions that can be answered with a single reply, delivering files, or other types of content. However, for anything that requires back and forth interaction, synchronous real-time communication should be used.

Few professional experiences feel worse than overload. But what really causes this unfortunate state? In this episode, Cal takes a closer look at overload, identifying its main culprits, identifying solutions, and helping listeners with their specific overload-related questions.

Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo

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Today’s Deep Question: How does overload actually operate? [3:54]

- Does Cal use an executive assistant? [26:15]

- How do I write an effective communication policy for my team? [36:35]

- Does overhead compound exponentially? [42:50]

- How rare are high expectation/low overhead jobs? [48:05]

- My job has few shallow obligations. What should I do with my free time? [51:41]

Something Interesting: The future of social media is less social [59:39]

Links:

wsj.com/articles/workers-say-its-harder-to-get-things-done-now-heres-why-2a5f1389

nytimes.com/2023/04/19/technology/personaltech/tiktok-twitter-facebook-social.html