the 7 (email) habits of highly effective people

About Sendio: Sendio offers solutions to enterprises and institutions that will increase employee productivity while eliminating all spam and bulk email without any false positives—ensuring you only receive emails from trusted sources. To learn how Sendio can help your business achieve greater email efficiency, call (877) 363-2772. When you don’t have to waste your time on bulk email and actually want to read the emails in your inbox, you become a much more highly effective person. www.sendio.com With more than 15 million copies sold, Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is one of the most popular books ever. The habits suggested by Covey are broad maxims to help readers become more effective…but at Sendio we are all about email so we wondered: What if we applied the 7 Habits to email? It’s easy to be discouraged by a pile of unread emails. The best way to get rid of that pile is to not let your emails pile up in the first place. Try to read and respond to all of your emails the day you receive them. Be careful who you give your email address to online. If you are signing up for an account on a website that requires your email address, consider if you’re willing to put up with potential emails from the service. Email is important to getting work done—but it can also be big distraction. If your email is stopping you from being productive, think about shutting it down or at least turning off pop-up notifications. If you have a question, make things easier on everyone by making it specific. Instead of rambling for a few paragraphs and finishing with “thoughts?” you should get straight to your point and ask a straightforward and specific question. Don’t just skim an email and respond or ask for clarification. Before responding to someone, make sure you have actually read the original email carefully. Electronic communication is prone to miscommunications. Do your part to prevent them! Encourage everyone in your office to only respond to an email if it is actually necessary. If an email is only one or a few words long, the sender should think twice about if it is actually necessary to send. Email seems straightforward, but it has been inundated with machine generated email. Be on the lookout for the right tools that can help you improve how you and your company uses its email so you can focus on getting more work done and less time with email induced headaches. 7 7 The Email H a b i t s o f H i g h l y E f f e c ti v e P e o p l e 1 1 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 2 2 BE PROACTIVE. BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND. PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST. THINK WIN-WIN. SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD. SYNERGIZE. SHARPEN THE SAW. Sendio’s Opt-Inbox ™ will help everyone at your workplace spend less time managing email and more time getting work done. With Opt-Inbox ™ the only emails that arrive in your inbox are from automated senders you approve and real people. BEFORE Sendio WITH Sendio Your Inbox BEFORE Sendio Inbox 87 Sent Client Social Media Alert Daily Deal Boss Coworker Weekly Newsletter Flight Itinerary Automated Response Online Order Receipt Trash Your Inbox WITH Sendio Inbox 5 Sent Client Boss Coworker Flight Itinerary Sendio Pending Queue Summary Email Trash

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Page 1: The 7 (Email) Habits of Highly Effective People

When you don’t have to waste your time on bulk email and actually want to read the emails in your inbox,

you become a much more highly effective person.

www.sendio.com

With more than 15 million copies sold, Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is one of the most popular books ever.

The habits suggested by Covey are broad maxims to help readers become more effective…but at Sendio we are all about email so we wondered:

What if we applied the 7 Habits to email?

It’s easy to be discouraged by a pile of unread emails. The best way to get rid of that pile is to not let your emails pile up in the first place. Try to read and respond to all of your emails the day you receive them.

Be careful who you give your email address to online. If you are signing up for an account on a website that requires your email address, consider if you’re willing to put up with potential emails from the service.

Email is important to getting work done—but it can also be big distraction. If your email is stopping you from being productive, think about shutting it down or at least turning off pop-up notifications.

If you have a question, make things easier on everyone by making it specific. Instead of rambling for a few paragraphs and finishing with “thoughts?” you should get straight to your point and ask a straightforward and specific question.

Don’t just skim an email and respond or ask for clarification. Before responding to someone, make sure you have actually read the original email carefully. Electronic communication is prone to miscommunications. Do your part to prevent them!

Encourage everyone in your office to only respond to an email if it is actually necessary. If an email is only one or a few words long, the sender should think twice about if it is actually necessary to send.

Email seems straightforward, but it has been inundated with machine generated email. Be on the lookout for the right tools that can help you improve how you and your company uses its email so you can focus on getting more work done and less time with email induced headaches.

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22BE PROACTIVE.

BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND.

PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST.

THINK WIN-WIN.

SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD.

SYNERGIZE.

SHARPEN THE SAW.

Sendio’s Opt-Inbox™ will help everyone at your workplace spend less time managing email and more time getting work done.

With Opt-Inbox™ the only emails that arrive in your inbox are from automated senders you approve and real people.

BEFORE Sendio WITH Sendio