Before Your Next Email

Ask yourself: 

– Who’s it for?

– What’s if for?

If you can’t answer both of these questions, don’t send it. 

And when you can answer them, use them to craft you message clearly based on the recipient and the message you want to get across.

Too often we do things out of habit, out of a sense of urgency. This results in a lot of bad communication, eating up precious time for both us and our colleagues.

Becoming crystal clear on your intent will take your communication to the next level. Helping others see what you see, where you want to go. And you will likely send less emails along the way. No one will blame you for that. 

PS These questions applies not only to email, but to meetings, presentations, documents, slack-conversations. But you already got that. DS