4 Email Best Practices to Control the Chaos After Busy Season
If your water lab ditched email best practices during the busy summer season, catching up on these correspondences can seem impossible. But don't panic: According to Fortune, even tidying expert Marie Kondo admits that organizing digital clutter "doesn't go as perfectly as tidying the home."
It's never too late to wrangle your inbox by following email management best practices at work. So as summer draws to an end, and your inbox requests have finally started to taper off, this presents a great opportunity for digital decluttering.
Follow these tips to manage email overload and get back on top of your inbox pile — once and for all.
1. BLOCK OUT INBOX MAINTENANCE TIME
Try not to stress about the current state of your inbox. You've been busy expediting water testing for beaches and public pools, getting interns up to speed, and putting out all the fires that are to be expected with the summer season. But now it's wise to tackle all the nonurgent messages that have piled up.
Take a break from fielding automated form responses or queries from staff members and block out some time in your calendar solely for sorting emails. Even if it's only 30 minutes a day, this dedicated time will be incredibly beneficial as you seek out inbox zero status.
