Had It with Email Overload?

E-tools are handy, but they are also very easy to abuse, and they can drain productivity if they are not managed. The research shows that if you're getting 100 emails a day today, you could be getting 166 next year, 275 the year after that, 456 the year after that. It's not sustainable.

Manage Interruptions

Managing email is about managing interruptions, a saboteur that is undermining the chief productivity tool, attention. Constant interruptions decimate attention, eroding a part of the brain that regulates impulse control. The more you check email, the more you have to check it, as any smartphone user knows.

Unbounded email is also a major stressor, playing to one of the main triggers of fight-or-flight chemicals, the perception that you are over-whelmed and can't cope. Chronic interruptions reduce productivity and cause twice the amount of errors, because they undermine attention, moving it from the top floors of the brain to the lower rote realms.

Get Back to Productivity

Take charge of information overload with our "How to Control Email Overload" training or by enrolling in our course, "Managing Email Overload." Sample the strategies with the download on this page, "The Email Overload Survival Kit." We have great tools available to manage information and prevent unbounded email chaos.

Email Overload Programs

Spay and Neuter the Electronic Rabbit

No matter what industry you're in, there's only one business many of us are really in these days—the clicking business—checking, sending, and receiving, and occasionally getting some work done. The average knowledge worker gets 133 emails a day and receives 77 instant messages. It's not sustainable. Email overload can cost up to $1 billion a year in lost productivity for large firms, according to a study at Intel. And it can increase stress and aggravation 105%.

Email is the electronic rabbit, multiplying at a pace that's not sustainable. It's time to spay and neuter.

The Cost of Email Overload

Email overload costs Unbounded email takes a big toll on productivity, personally and on company output. One Intel study found that the cost of lost productivity from email overload for large firms with more than 50,000 employees is $1 billion a year. That's billion with a B.

It doesn't have to be that way. With proven strategies developed by researchers and the best practices, you can get information overload under control.

Email Management Training Programs and Courses

Enroll your team in our email management course, "Managing Email Overload," also available to individuals, or our training program, "How to Control Email Overload." Our programs provide actionable tools to reduce the amount of messaging and process email with a fraction of the usual parade of interruptions.

See our "Email Overload Survival Kit" below for a sampling of the material.

• Learn how to dramatically cut the number of interruptions from email

• Get strategies to reduce the back-and-forth and endless volleys

• Use practices proven by the research for the most productive email management

Get back to productivity by enrolling your staff or team in "Managing Email Overload." This critical course cuts the flood of messages, lowers stress, and allows your organization to get a lot more done. Contact us for details on staff courses, dates, and rates.

The Email Overload Survival Kit

"The Email Overload Survival Kit" provides a taste of our email management courses and trainings, which help you cut the staggering volume of messages flooding the office. Email proliferates like rabbits. Each email results in six messages, three going, three coming back. The average corporate user spends the equivalent of 100 days a year doing nothing but email. Think of the extra work you could get done if you got some of that time back.

"The Email Overload Survival Kit" guides you through the tools of the best email management. This 37-minute free, audio download arms you with the latest research to manage messaging. It dramatically improves productivity and reduces stress by allowing you to:

Reduce the volume of email, going out and incoming
Define the most productive email checking schedules
Set email rules and etiquette
Minimize interruptions, end disruptions

There’s light at the end of the messaging in-box.