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Episode #40: Best Practices of Email Communication

GTD Times Staff — Tue, 08 May 2018 16:41:45 +0000

In this podcast, Coach Kelly Forrister focuses on the best practices of email communications with others, including appropriate use, writing effective subject lines, creating agreed upon response times, reply to all and more. Listen Now Subscribe or Download iTunes Stitcher Libsyn Google Play Music Spotify SoundCloud

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Processing email with GTD

GTD Times Staff — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 01:42:04 +0000

The more facile you get with the GTD models, the faster you’ll be at processing your input, such as new email. We’ve found it takes most people about 30 seconds to process something. That means making a clear decision about what “done” (the outcome) and the “doing” (the next action) looks like. No software will …

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Email Best Practices for Teams

GTD Times Staff — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 18:47:13 +0000

A client asked me for our best practices around email communications, to share with their globally dispersed teams. They had learned the keys to getting to inbox zero, but their productivity was stymied by the sheer volume of unproductive emails being sent around the company. These tips were born out of the shared practices we use here at …

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What’s your standard for email?

GTD Times Staff — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:17:20 +0000

I assert that it's actually less effort to maintain your email inbox at zero than to maintain it at 300 or 3,000. Will it take effort? Of course. But there is gold to be mined there with a trusted practice that will have ripple effects across your workflow and motivation.

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David Allen says Technology Solves Problems, Frustrates

GTD Times Staff — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:41:05 +0000

David Allen talks with Bloomberg about technology and email protocols, and the frustrations people are dealing with around email and some ways to deal with it.

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What do you consider is your work?

GTD Times Staff — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:32:59 +0000

The stress many people feel can be directly attributed to the avoidance of daily and weekly catching up—with the flood of emails, voice mails, meetings, projects, and other informational and actionable items.

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GTD Nuggets – Getting your email to zero

GTD Times Staff — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:00:18 +0000

Scanning an email and leaving it in “In” because it’s not as important as other emails at the moment creates double reading, double thinking, and double decision-making (not to mention the nagging it creates in the psyche in the meantime.) – David Allen

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7 tips for dealing with email

GTD Times Staff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:00:24 +0000

A Community Contribution from Erik Hanberg Here’s how I deal with email and keep from getting too overloaded: I have one inbox. Everything goes to the same place (accounts either forward to Gmail or I’ve actually set Gmail up to reply from those accounts). I only check email when I can reply to it easily. …

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Is Gmail’s Priority Inbox anti-GTD?

GTD Times Staff — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:29:37 +0000

Google announced Priority Inbox today and the emails started flooding in asking, “Isn’t this anti-GTD?” Google says that Priority Inbox “automatically identifies your important email and separates it out from everything else, so you can focus on what really matters.” So, what does David Allen say about this kind of tool and the questions about …

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Digging out from backlog

GTD Times Staff — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:00:10 +0000

The next Webinar on GTD Connect will be “Digging Out From Backlog”. Two of our senior coaches will give you tips, tricks, and strategies for dealing with your piles of “stuff”. If you feel like your backlog is holding you back from getting the most out of GTD, this Webinar is for you. Free to …

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