How many hours a day do you sit in front of a computer, responding to email?
In my father’s day, it was called correspondence. He would receive letters, reports in large brown envelopes and he would dictate his response to a secretary. The secretary would type the response and leave it in his INBOX for signature. This was correspondence.
And I am certain that my father blocked off a portion each day for correspondence.
That word, correspondence, has been lost, but the activity, albeit electronic, is likely to consume more of your day than in my father’s day.
So, how many hours a day, do you sit in front of a computer, responding to email? And in those hours, what strategies do you use to be more efficient? What strategies do you use to be more effective?