
Explore how to use e-mail as a leadership tool, assess your current email habits, compare with others' results, and prepare by printing the course workbook for better retention.
Choose your own emails as writing samples and set a length baseline. Score your writing using syllable-based rules, then apply the e-mail efficiency calculator to track improvement.
Learn to shorten writing by dropping the word that when it's not needed, and use it as a cue to rephrase for clearer, more concise leadership communications.
Use simpler words to appear smarter, as Princeton researcher Dr. Daniel Oppenheimer shows, readers rate simpler language as easier to understand and more intelligent.
Learn to use e-mail as a leadership tool by crafting clear, actionable requests that specify who should do what and avoid ambiguity.
Learn how to use the to, cc, and bcc fields effectively to indicate direct recipients, awareness-only readers, and privacy-protecting senders, while avoiding reply-to-all pitfalls.
Learn to craft email action requests by four criteria: clear, concise, familiar topic, right person, and job-appropriate—then include who, what, and when.
Balance professional meaning in email while nurturing personal meaning in person, recognizing two brands—professional and personal—and avoiding mingling messages.
This course is about a shift to using e-mail with a ‘servant leadership’ mindset. Built on a framework designed to help you identify and eliminate e-mail’s top pet peeves, this course will help you get better results from your e-mail, while building your own professional brand.
The evolution of virtual teams, groups working across different time zones, and the increase in remote work and hybrid work-from-home arrangements, has positioned e-mail as a business-critical communication tool. E-mail is a unique communication method requiring a unique writing style to be effective.
A cross-industry survey by Revivae Consulting, including people in roles from entry-level to CEOs, found we all have the same e-mail pet peeves; they’re too long, we get too many, we don’t know a message was sent to us, ‘reply to all’ messages are out of control, and the list goes on! This study confirmed e-mail has devolved into a game of seeing who can reply the fastest and stay online the longest. This approach lets us trick ourselves into thinking we’re being responsive, productive, and getting stuff done. But, more often than not, this mindset ends up creating churn, confusion, frustration, and delays.
I hope you’ll join me for this course.