3 things you can do with an email that not everyone knows about:

1) Create a calendar event
Drag the email to your calendar icon in the lower left-hand side of Outlook. This will allow you to block out time to execute the task in the email. Use this when an email requires 30 minutes or more of your time. If the email has an attachment, copy that first, and paste it in the calendar item once you have created it.

2) Create a contact from an email
Drag the email to your contacts icon in the lower left-hand side of Outlook. This will create a contact with the information.

3) To create a task from an email
Drag the email to your task icon in the lower left-hand side of Outlook. This will create a task using the subject line of the email. If the email has an attachment, copy that first, and paste it in the calendar item once you have created it.

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Michael Hoffman

If it isn’t obvious yet, 60-minute meetings are not very practical. 

The problem is that we can’t go from one 60-minute meeting to another without a break to enter notes and physically get to the other meeting.  (Much better to do right after the meeting than hours or even days later when so much has been forgotten.) 

Even on-line meetings necessitate some time to transition from one meeting to the next.

50-minute meetings are much better than 60s because they give you that all important 10 minutes to digest, record-keep, and transition; and it’s really easy to do.  Having a bit more of time-constraint also helps people keep to agendas. 

I’ve been having 50, 25 and 15-minute meetings for over a decade and never once has anyone objected, so give it a try.

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Michael Hoffman