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Communication is mostly about non verbal clues. Suggest you use emoticons or send pictures of your face as you type the message
email to is very senior. I just can’t seem to get my thoughts together to write sentences that make sense or are grammatically correct. It’s almost like I forgot basic writing skills and I second guess every word I type. This sucks a ton of my time at work. I need advice on how to address this. What can I do to improve. Anyone experience anything like this? Any tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Go back to basics. Stop typing sentances to start with, put down your 2-3 bullets, and what you want the senior to do. Then expand those thoughts. Just like you were taught in 5th grade.
I like a VERY direct subject line with "action required" or "meeting recap". I want simple sentances that are direct. I'm looking for information, and run on sentances take much longer to process. Bullets are fine in many cases.
The more senior the person is, likely the more email they get. I went through a couple hundred emails a day this week and my unreads went up by over 1000. I'm going to get through them this weekend, but make it easy for people like me. Short emails that have just what I need.
If you think more info is necessary, put it AFTER the main points. Give me three bullets and then paragraphs with explanations below. Often the bullets are enough.
And take me off the team discussions! Send me an email when action or escalation is needed, or tasks completed.