1. Commitment to Excellence Email to win, meeting magic & office effectiveness potpourri

2. Commitment to Excellence

3. Objectives Smarter email habits Post-meeting follow-up Office tips odds & ends

4. Email to win Save time, make friends, laugh more

5. Email to win How many emails do you get every day?

6. Email to win Email = Respect

7. Email to win Email = Time

8. Email to win Email = Love

9. Checking email Email is our lifeblood Don’t miss events/responsibilities/projects Respect others’ work

10. Reading email

11. Most important first! Time-sensitive Pic, Mike, Blakely Your manager

12. Team next Team members Projects you’re working on Partners

13. Lists last Mass emails Daily updates Fun stuff

14. Response time Most important – ASAP Team – half-day max Lists – time-permitting

15. Target your emails 1 email = 1 idea

16. When to include people on email Directly involved? Valuable POV? Will they be annoyed if NOT included? When in doubt: include

17. Writing email Brevity is the soul of wit

18. Writing email One-liners are beautiful

19. The Rule of 5 BlackBerry Screens Any longer, make it a call

20. Format to read Bullet Bold Short grafs – 4 lines max

21. Your subject line should say it all FWD: re: re: RE: pd8293 stuff OR Matt: EchoDitto agreement for review – due today

22. Respect = cleaning it up 10 seconds makes life easier

23. Take things offline Passions rising Overly complex Not getting anywhere Making somebody look bad

24. Matt’s Go-To Email Tips Mow through Batches don’t work Name in subject gets a response

25. Meeting magic The art of the follow-up

26. We’ve covered meetings Target, objectives, agenda Resulting in Shorter meetings More productive meetings Better ideas

27. Room for improvement Set-up & follow-through Resulting in Smarter scheduling Better post-meeting results Finishing faster

28. Set up meetings smarter Check the calendar – and keep your calendar updated Get your own dial-in FreeConferenceCall.com Include more in invite Dial-in info Agenda

29. It’s all about the follow-through Turn ideas into results

30. At the end of the meeting State deliverables State timeline Send notes Schedule due dates

31. Run the meeting, own results 1 owner Rally results Educate staff

32. Great developers ship

33. Office effectiveness potpourri A grabbag of workplace delight!

34. Too busy to remember it all

35. Documents: Name it smart agreement.doc or DRAFT 350-ACE partnership agreement 11510 - EA.doc

36. Documents: Name it smart Always a draft All organizations listed Clear title Date Time, if revised that day Initials of last editor

37. Documents: 1 page or bust “If I had more time, I would’ve made it shorter”

38. Format to read Bullet Bold Short grafs – 4 lines max

40. Send unsolicited updates

41. Set meetings

42. Send follow-up

46. Matt Stewart @mjfstewart