May 2nd, 2013
It's safe to say that email has become the primary communication tool for businesses all over the world. Its instant nature has also made communication infinitely easier. Despite all of the benefits of email, there are some drawbacks, with the sheer amount of emails we get on a daily basis being the biggest of them. If you inbox is a little unruly, there are steps you can take to reign it in.
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Think back to the last time you received an important email, only to be confused or unsure of what exactly the sender wanted. Emails like these have become near commonplace, and can negatively influence our productivity. There are a number of things you can do to mitigate this however, the most important revolves around writing good emails.
Technology has reached a point where you don't necessarily have to be in the office in order to work. Many companies have remote employees and have had success with this idea. With the right hires, and defined roles, many telecommuters are just as productive as their office-bound contemporaries. However, one big company doesn't agree.
A common trend of office software developers - those who make programs that allow users to create documents, spreadsheets, etc. - is to focus on tools that make the user more productive. Two such tools are email and the calendar, both of which are heavily used by nearly all business owners and employees. The problem is, for Google users at least, that the calendar is separate from email which is a bit of a hassle when you need to access it. There is an app that makes this easier however.
While being an entrepreneur can be a rewarding experience, it's also a time consuming one. Work-life balance to many business owners is non-existent because they spend all of their time focusing on so many different aspects of their business. An entrepreneur's attention is often pulled in 100 different directions at once, which often leads to poor productivity and a non existent work-life balance. However, it doesn't have to be this way.
Writing letters are so last century. Can you remember the last time you actually wrote a letter using pen and paper? For many of us, that would be a very long time ago. We've switched almost exclusively to email, and for many this has lead to a communication revolution. While email is fairly simple, there are some finer points that many users fail to master, including the To; CC and BCC field.
The word ‘instant’ can be defined as happening immediately, and is a catchword of the modern world, all around us, from instant rice to instant noodles and instant printing, the list goes on. This concept, while not new, has arguably been taken to extremes thanks to the abundance of technology. This is a two-faced issue, for while it's great to see the results of the latest election without delay, this expectation has changed how we interact.
Do you send large files on a regular basis and struggle to attach them to emails due to size limits placed by the email provider? While using email to send files is convenient, it can be a hassle to send large files. One way to do this, that simultaneously decreases the size of the file, is by using a program to compress the files.
Productivity of your employees can be a hard enough thing to manage and encourage when your employees work in the same office as you, let alone employees who work remotely. While it’s a dream for many to work remotely from home, very few employees find they can pull it off. For those that do, bosses need to ensure that they’re as productive as onsite employees.
