Inbox Detox Full Day Workshop

Inbox Detox --- What You and Your Business Need NOW!

Here's the master plan. We can customize this for your company's specific "e-ddictions."

Session 1

Introduction, Ground Rules, and other Boring Stuff -- 10 minutes

  • Detox Plan (Educational objectives)
  • Relief Plan (Housekeeping)

What Toxic Email Habits are Costing YOU -- 10 minutes

  • To you
  • To your company
  • To your family
  • To your industry
  • To the world

The Inbox -- Your Secret Weapon -- 10 minutes

  • Why managing your inbox is a competitive advantage
  • How might you use an extra hour per day? (Dyad discussion, report out)

Fun Assessment -- five minutes

  • Most items in the inbox -- prize

Detoxify Your Inbox in 12 Easy Steps -- 60 minutes

  • The 12 steps to curing your e-mail e-ddiction
  • What about that mailbox? (mailbox visual exercise)
  • Me - have an empty inbox?! (set goal for empty inbox)
BREAK. CHECK THAT BLACKBERRY!

Session 2

Don't Do Stupid Stuff! How to receive 30% fewer emails -- 30 minutes

  • When to e-mail; when NOT to e-mail
  • Birth control for email rabbits (outgoing email best practices)

Email Messages that get read, get responded to, and get results! -- 60 minutes

  • Working session -- How would YOU write this message?
  • Five secrets to writing e-mail messages that people will actually read!
LUNCH. CHOMP CHOMP.

 

Session 3

E-mail pet peeves-- 30 minutes

  • What's driving you nuts ain't the same as what's driving us nuts
  • 20 Toxic Emailers you know

What's wrong with this e-mail?

  • E-mail etiquette, do's and don'ts -- 30 minutes
  • Emily Post doesn't live here any more. Wait - who's Emily Post?

Put the friggin' thing down! -- 15 minutes

  • How to say NO in this 24/7 world (Setting boundaries)
  • Smart phone or dumb phone? (tips)
  • Don't get arrested for DWT (driving while texting Dont's!)

It's contagious! Mass e-ddiction!

  • Stop infecting each other! Are you the e-mail "pusher?" (Organizational culture discussion)
  • 10 Best Practices of a Positive Email Culture
BREAK. NO. THE COMPANY DIDN'T FOLD WITHOUT YOU.

 

Session 4

What's in it for you? - 45 minutes

NOTE: Placeholder for issues specific to hiring organization or level of attendee - can include "managing WITH your inbox" "Q+A" "The Inbox Detox Company Culture"

The old time management model is kaput, and here's why... -- 30 minutes

  • Managing your E - day
  • Pretending email doesn't exist won't make it go away
  • Stop letting your inbox change your daily plan!

Achieving detoxification -- 20 minutes

  • Come clean. What are the 3 worst habits you want to change?
  • What is the ROI?
  • Involving your "support group" - how others can help you succeed
  • How materials/participant kit will be your secret weapon
  • What will you do differently?

Celebration

WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH YOUR NEW FOUND TIME???!!!