From This Week's Education Slot :

4th August 2010 - Taking Control of Your Email Inbox

• Do you get emails?
• Do you look them, leave them and then go back to them?
• Do you reopen them, close them, and then go back to them?
• Do you keep them all in your inbox?
• Do important emails get lost in a vast sea of emails?

Here’s how you can get control.

1. Set up a simple reference system by creating folders outside your In Box
   
   1. @Action (longer than two minutes to deal with)
   2. @Waiting (waiting for something/someone to do something)
   3. @Reference (need to keep for some reason)

You can set up outlook to automatically move certain items, or you can do it manually.

2. Set aside time to deal with your emails. Treat this as a meeting. If necessary put a time in the diary call it – TFM meeting. You will need to be disciplined to do this. Don’t be tempted to check out your emails every time you get a ping to say there is a new message.
3. Deal with one email at a time, from the top of your inbox. Choose how you want to view your emails by date, sender or subject. You can also set outlook to give you a preview pane so that you don’t need to open the email.
4. Use the 4 D’s to deal with email
   1. Delete it - not meaningful, info you can get elsewhere, not use in next 6 months,
   2. Do it – if it takes less than two minutes
   3. Delegate it – send it to someone else
   4. Defer it – send it to your tasks/calendar for action later

Statistics show:

50% emails can be deleted or filed

30% can be delegated or completed in under two minutes

20% can be deferred to you Task List or calendar

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7th April 2010 - If You Can't Make It

Use Sussex subs, staff from your company or try something new and use a client. Try using different people, zest up the chapter.!

Sussex subs can be found by using the link in the Member Resources area of our website or at http://www.sussex-subs.co.uk/. Just go to the site and if you haven't done so already, register.

The Most Important 'Meal' of the Day

'Its not net-sit or net-eat its net-work' 

The essence of BNI is that although the meeting takes place at breakfast the sole reason for coming is to net-work! Efficiency and timings are maintained because every BNI meeting follows a structured 20 point agenda.

Being active in BNI is like having up to 40 sales people working for you, because your fellow members will be carrying your cards and referring your business to people they meet, without you having to pay them any salaries or commission. Successful businesses depend on 'word-of-mouth' marketing as the best form of promotion there is. 17/2/2010