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1.) EDITORIAL
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Summer is here.  Do we put our businesses on hold
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2.) HEADLINE ARTICLE
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Optimizing E-mail: Stay Productive, Not Busy
By Kevin Lawrence

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Does email boost or hinder your performance? It all depends on how you use it.

Email offers us countless ways to save time and be more productive, but when we go on “email autopilot” – checking the inbox repeatedly, typing out messages that should be discussed, copying people who are only peripherally involved, and other bad habits we’ve picked up along the way – email can make us more busy than productive.

The problem with email is when we don’t contain it, our field of attention becomes fragmented. When attention is constantly shifting over to email, one’s ability to focus on work is severely compromised. The interesting thing is, professionals rarely recognize the degree to which email hampers performance.

In 2005, a psychiatrist at King’s College in London administered IQ tests to three groups: the first did nothing except perform the IQ test, the second was distracted by email and ringing phones, and the third was stoned on marijuana. Not surprisingly, the first group did better than the other two by an average of 10 points. The emailers, on the other hands, did worse than intoxicated people by an average of 6 points.

Yet, in a recent survey of 320 professionals, 17% check a few times per hour and 68% check email more or less continually – constantly breaking their focus on the primary task at hand.

Thanks to the Blackberry and other portable devices, millions of people can’t go more than five minutes without checking email… and we’re doing it everywhere we go:
• In bed - 23%
• In class - 12%
• In business meetings - 8%
• At the beach or pool - 6%
• In the bathroom - 4%
• While driving - 4%
• In church - 1%

There’s a very good reason that “crackberry” was declared the 2006 Word-of-the-Year by Webster's New World College Dictionary. Blackberry addiction was labeled “similar to drugs” in a recent study by Rutgers University. 

Eight out of 10 admit using computers or other gadgets at bedtime and one-third of people make phone calls and send or receive messages in bed. One fifth check social networking sites such as Facebook, play computer games or listen to MP3 players.  Are these gadgets improving our productivity and quality of life, or just keeping us compulsively busy?

Many global firms in Zurich don’t allow their bankers to check email more than twice per day. The reason? The more they check email, the more compelled they feel to send email. This highlights the unscalable nature of most time-management approaches: striving to do more just produces increasingly more to do.

In order to streamline your email process and make it as efficient and effective as possible, here are 13 strategies to consider:

1. Turn off the audio alert for your email inbox, and even better, when you aren’t actively emailing, turn off your email program.
2. Check email 2-4 times per day at designated times. Communicate to those around you that you now check email a couple times a day, and if something critical arises, they should call you directly.
3. For each incoming email, there are only 5 choices: handle it immediately; forward/delegate it; file it; flag it for later follow-up; or delete it. Don’t let messages pile up in your inbox or they will be ignored.
4. Address the message to someone if they need to take action; only cc someone if they need to be aware of the information you’re sending.
5. Make only one request per email, and discuss one main idea per paragraph or section. Then specify the response you want (i.e. a phone call, follow-up or appointment).
6. Never leave the subject line blank; use it to quickly inform the recipient about the message content, level of urgency and response required. For example: “Info on the XYZ Company deal – please review for accuracy and reply by 3 p.m. today.”
7. Remember, email is intended to be short. Consider adopting a 3-4 sentence standard, plus attachments when necessary.
8. Establish a company-wide policy against messages that say “I got it” or “thanks.”
9. Establish or circulate your company’s retention/deletion policy. How long should messages be stored? What are the criteria to keep a message? What are the criteria to delete?
10. Create a “to read later” folder for newsletters, education, and other low-priority messages. File them when they arrive, then go through them in batches when time permits.
11. Don’t write an email when it would be faster to pick up the phone (hint: this is more often that you think).
12. Avoid expressing anger or chastising someone in an email; you’re better off talking face-to-face or by phone. That way you can vent and make an impact without the corrosive effect of written words that can be read over and over again.
13. If a lengthy response is required but you can’t answer immediately, send a reply indicating that you received the message and when you will respond fully.

Take Action: Choose 3 Strategies

People waste so much time and energy (in business and life) that could be better invested in higher-value activities. If each of us could free up even a half hour a day by using these ideas, we’d all be a lot better off.

Decide on three steps you will take or changes you will make to streamline your relationship with email and use it more effectively.

No matter how you decide to optimize e-mail practices in your company, make sure everyone is on the same page. When every team member adheres to higher standards of email conduct, the amount of time saved collectively can be astonishing.



Kevin Lawrence is an expert at helping entrepreneurs and business leaders achieve breakthrough results through strategic business development. As a business coach, he helps leaders overcome major obstacles, deal with tough decisions and build higher-caliber teams to increase revenue, profitability and productivity. With more than a decade of experience with hundreds of entrepreneurs and business leaders across Canada, the USA and the Middle East, Kevin has a solid reputation as an agent of change. http://www.coachkevin.com



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System Tray

Basically, the system tray is located at the very bottom of your desktop in the taskbar (which is the long bar that runs all the way across your desktop). If you look along the taskbar, you'll see some icons in the quick launch area, then you have some open space for any programs, etc. you have open and then on the very far right, you'll see where the system tray sits.

The system tray contains the clock icon, the volume icon and various other icons, depending on what all you have installed on your computer. Usually, your antivirus program icon will be there, it's where your printer icon shows up, your modem icon is there, the safely remove hardware icon sits there and so on. If you need to use any of the items in your system tray, all you have to do is double click on the icons and the programs will open. So, as you can see, the system tray is home to a lot of important applications on your PC.

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