Desperate Need for Email Guidelines and Insight

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Washington, DC – March, 2012 – Pam, a manager at Verizon, receives an avalanche of low value email each week. Surprisingly, most of Pam’s unwanted email comes from well-intentioned co-workers.

“Let’s blow up the reply-to-all key!” jokes Pam, “I also get a lot of unnecessary FYI, CYA, and thank you emails.”

Pam’s frustration is shared by many. Over 25,000 surveys compiled by GetControl.net — an email and time management training company indicate that professionals now spend 2.5 hours a day on email and consider 30% of that time to be wasted. Extrapolated across America’s 100 million knowledge workers and assuming an average wage of $30/hour this equates to a whopping $540 Billion wasted each year.

Who is to Blame?
So who is responsible for the rising tide of low-value email churning through our lives? According to GetControl.net  research, most professionals feel it’s someone else. For example, 75% of those surveyed agreed that their colleagues often over-use the reply-to-all feature, yet only 14% agreed that they, themselves, did.

“Professionals need more feedback on the email they send,” says Mike Song, CEO of GetControl.net. “Coaching helps everyone send clear, concise, and actionable email.”

What Can Be Done?
Song offers the following advice, “Reduce email volume by including the following verbiage on widely distributed messages: Please send replies to me instead of hitting reply to all. Also, strive to focus harder on the recipient’s needs. Ask yourself, ‘Do they truly need this email in order to do their job?’ before hitting send.”

These and other techniques from the Get Control! of Email seminar have helped corporate training clients cut email time by 20% in order to save billions of dollars in wages.

“If you want to run a lean and agile enterprise, you have to aggressively manage email because it now consumes a quarter of your people’s time,” says Song. “The call to action is for leaders to invest in cost effective email efficiency training that yields measurable results.”

Mike Song is the best-selling co-author of The Hamster Revolution: Manage Your Email Before it Manages You which has sold over 125,000 copies in 11 languages.

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Get Control! Productivity Ideas from Mike Song

Email overload is a monster that kills productivity in one organization after another. Finally, your company has decided to provide an effective email training class.

Oh No!  They bring in an expert who walks you through a long, incredibly obvious list of things to do. Bla Bla Bla.  That’s not training – that’s boring people to death!

The key to effective email training is fun.  We design our programs to be interactive.  Our facilitators will ask your people to explain their email pain points at the beginning of the class.  Then we attack your biggest challenges with fun, interactive exercises, lots of laughter, and plenty of opportunities to learn by doing.

When I teach our Get Control! of Email class I ask participants to do some goofy things.   When they’re laughing, moving, interacting, etc. their long-term memory kicks in — the class is more memorable.  For example, I get them to mimic the Karate Kid movie’s Wax on – Wax Off mantra – but we replace that with Send Less – Get Less.   Watch my video and see what fun looks like!

We’ve tracked metrics from every course we’ve taught and we now receive a 98% Excellent to Good rating with 70+% of the participants giving the course an Excellent score.  Make sure your effective email course is exciting, memorable, and FUN!!!

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by Mike Song: Email Efficiency and Etiquette Trainer, Author, Expert

We are helping the world to get organized!  I am extremely thrilled to announce that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent on our COTA system. COTA is the world’s first universal file folder storage system.

It is the backbone of our award-winning Get Control! of Info training class.  Our patent number is 7698316.

According to 40,000 surveys we have conducted — over 90% of all professionals desperately want to improve the way they store information.   COTA gives them a simple starting point so that they can find all of their info in a couple mouse clicks.

In a recent rollout to 5,000 professionals at a Fortune 100 company — 72% of all participants adopted COTA to help them become more organized. COTA helped them break all of their business information into 4 universal folder categories.

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