Upcoming Workshop: Fire Your Inbox
Spend less time managing your work and more time doing it.
Do you know what the point of your inbox is?
Seriously.
Pause for a moment and think about it.
Why do you have an inbox?
To be honest, you might not have an answer. For most people, your inbox is something you’re given. It’s not something you necessarily wanted or set out to create for yourself.
I got my first inbox in 2009 when I enrolled as a student at Syracuse University. Up until that point, I didn’t really need one. Sure, I had an email address that I used to create accounts to log into things like Facebook, but I didn’t really have an inbox.
That all changed when I started college. My inbox facilitated communication with all of my professors. It’s how I scheduled meetings or determined whether or not classes would be canceled during a snowstorm.
After I started my career email became a more important fixture in my life. There was my personal inbox and my corporate inbox. Because I was a government contractor I also had an email at the Department of Defense, both on the classified and unclassified networks.
I also started a couple of businesses on the side. Each had their own inboxes. At one point I had eight different inboxes I was responsible for maintaining. It was exhausting.
And yet, nowhere along the way did anyone teach me how to properly use an inbox.
To be totally fair, I could have taken it upon myself to learn how to manage my inbox but I didn’t. I just kind of went with the flow of things.
Maybe the same thing happened to you?
Now email is getting out of control. According to data compiled by Microsoft, the average knowledge worker now spends 16 hours per week on just two activities: attending meetings and managing their inboxes.
While you might think managing your inbox is an important part of your job (or running a business) it’s not.
This is what Spotify’s CEO refers to as “work around the work.”
It’s something that keeps you busy to make you look like you’re being productive but it isn’t actually moving the needle on large projects.
You’re not getting anything done and you feel stressed because of it.
This kind of work is what Cal Newport calls pseudo productivity.
The nature of work is rapidly changing. If you spend most of your workday responding to emails, there’s a good chance you aren’t developing the skills you need to stay employable in the future.
If you want to stay competitive in the workforce and be successful, you have to change the way you work. That starts with the thing that takes up most of your energy – your inbox.
Fire Your Inbox is a workshop that’ll show you a whole new way to look at email. By implementing the right systems, you can reduce the amount of time you’re wasting on your inbox, freeing up more time to do other things.
The 45-minute workshop will walk you through a process to transform your inbox into an actionbox. You’ll learn how to put protocols in place that will help you process messages effectively and efficiently.
The workshop will be live on Zoom on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 10 am CST.
If you want to save time and be more productive, you won’t want to miss this workshop. Registration is open on Eventbrite. Seats are limited and you can book them using the link below.
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