Five ways to improve your emails

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Iineffective communication occurs in businesses, as well as in personal lives, volunteer work, and day-to-day activities. An increasing amount of bad, ineffective, and mis-communication travels via email, and we can easily apply a few habits to make our emails more effective. Like manners and etiquette, writing effective emails is really a matter of common sense and respect for others. Practice these five habits when composing your emails for work, or for any project you’re undertaking, and see if your effectiveness, and the effectiveness of the people around you, increases.

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Organized, effective, audited?

Friends give me a hard time about being organized. Some tell me I’m over-organized. I tell them it’s genetic: My mother’s side of the family has what I call the Scislo Gene, which carries a tendency to be highly organized, neat, and oriented towards design and engineering. We want things to be in order, and we want to improve how they work.

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