This time of year it’s traditional to try to stop bad habits and start good ones. In the workplace, there’s one habit of which almost every employee is guilty, regardless of your industry, job title or location: Excessive emailing. There’s no better time than the start of the New Year to rethink your relationship with email.
You understand that you’ll need to structure your professional emails differently than you would a text or a tweet. But unless you had the good fortune to take an “Email Etiquette 101” course in college, you might be unsure of what, exactly, you should and shouldn’t do before clicking “send.”
During a recent period of the fretted PC breakdown, I came to realize that I took my computer for granted. I thought the high tech machine would never let me down and I was never further from the truth. Just when I thought things were going smoothly, “BANG”, I was in deep trouble.