The document provides tips for effective time management and email organization. It recommends not procrastinating, stopping multitasking to be more productive, and organizing all aspects of work. When attending meetings, laptops should remain closed. Tasks like responding to emails or taking notes should be done immediately after meetings. Proper email management involves regularly dealing with emails several times a day, organizing emails into subfolders, deleting or marking emails as read if not important, and taking quick action to respond or forward emails rather than letting them pile up in the inbox. Subfolders, immediate action on all new emails, and periodic cleanup are key to email management.

1. Time
Management &
Email
Mina Doroud
May 2017
@mdoroud mdoroud@gmail.com

3. ● Accept that your future self won’t have any more time than your current self.
(Do it Now, do not procrastinate!)
● Want to be more productive? Stop multi-tasking.
● Organize everything! Your folders, your scripts, your inbox, your schedule,
your meetings, …
● Go to a meeting that matters, but have your laptop closed!
Work smarter not harder

4. ● Take action immediately (respond to email, sending out notes, summarizing
the meeting)
● Don’t start from scratch.
● Leave yourself a note.
● Have a good sleep, fun weekends and hobbies outside work.
Work smarter not harder

5. Email management, step by step
1. Deal with your email regularly — several times a day.
2. Organize emails through sub-folders.
3. If it’s not important to you, delete it or mark it as read!
4. If it’s still in your inbox read it!
5. If the email is something that only requires a quick response, send that
response … now. Don’t wait.
6. If you’re not the right person to deal with the email, forward it immediately
with a brief explanation

6. Email management, Summary
● Sub-Folders are your friend
● Take immediate action on each new email
(Delete, Respond, Forward)
● Do periodic housekeeping

8. Source:
● http://blog.ted.com/10-steps-to-tame-your-email-inbox/
● https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaquast/2017/02/06/want-to-be-more-productive-stop-m
ulti-tasking/#55a6489655a6
● http://www.asianefficiency.com/email-management/simple-guide-to-managing-your-em
ail/
● http://www.sherweb.com/blog/5-weapons-effectively-manage-outlook-mailbox/

9. Thanks