How to Get Out of Email Jail

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Management, Intentionality, Selfdevelopment, Education, Teamleadership, Personaldevelopment, Productivity, Self-improvement, Business, Achievement, Influence, Selfleadership, Leadership

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🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As a leader, you pride yourself on being proactive and in control. But one area feels like a perpetual Dumpster fire—email! It’s all communications, really. Slack messages, texts, voicemail, it’s a constant burn. When will it end? It’ll end when you stop reacting to messages and start taking control of your inbox. You need a personal communication strategy, and we’ll show you how to make one. Follow these simple steps, and you’ll go from inbox overwhelm to inbox zero every single day. You’ll stop being the bottleneck on communications, and you’ll gain a ton of mental bandwidth to spend on your high-leverage tasks. In this episode you’ll discover— Why you shouldn’t just react to all of the messages that come your way—and what to do instead. Questions to ask yourself to determine who should have direct access to you and who should not. Tips on how to automate requests and remain thoughtful and kind. The immense value of asynchronous communication—and how you can do it well. Advice on setting clear expectations with your team on when and how people should reach out to you. This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by Michael Hyatt's new book, No-Fail Communication. Discover how to end workplace confusion and achieve better results with your communication. Learn more at leadto.win/communication. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by Michael Hyatt's new book,
0:04.4	No Fail Communication.
0:06.0	Discover how to end workplace confusion and achieve better results with your communication.
0:10.7	Learn more at lead to dot win slash communication.
0:15.0	Hi I'm Michael Hyatt and I'm Megan Hyatt Miller
0:20.0	and this is lead to win our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life.
0:25.2	And today we're tackling a huge problem for leaders and we're making a bold promise.
0:29.7	We're going to get you out of email jail.
0:37.8	That is bold and it might even feel impossible
0:40.8	to a lot of our listeners right now
0:42.2	because most of us are inundated with messages
0:45.1	during the day. Most people in business receive well over a hundred emails a
0:49.4	day and then there's now of course slack and texting and social media and all the other
0:54.8	inboxes you probably have. There is nowhere to hide, my friends. And there's no
0:59.7	off switch because messages arrive 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
1:05.0	We know that most people check their messages right before bed along with, you know, social
1:08.9	media and the news and all that stuff.
1:10.8	And at first, it probably felt kind of nice to feel wanted you know if you
1:14.7	don't remember way back to you know your first email account but not for long it
1:19.6	now it feels like we're in email jail so the question is how do we get out? Yeah I was just
1:25.9	thinking back remembering what it was like when I had my you know first AOL
1:29.6	account. You've got mail you've got mail I, there's an entire movie done on that. You know, people were so excited about getting email.
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