Yesterbox PLUS Inbox Pause!

Yesterbox PLUS Inbox Pause!

The Yesterbox blog post (Hi, Tony, are you reading this?!) got a lot of traction. People are INTO it. I’m into it. Ron G., a principal in New Orleans, is into it. He also takes it one step further by adding in Inbox Pause, a button to help you control when messages...
OBSESSED: Yesterbox, An Alternative Approach to Email Management

OBSESSED: Yesterbox, An Alternative Approach to Email Management

My old friend and colleague, Elissa Kim, was recently kind enough to let me interview her for The Together Leader. As I prepared for our conversation by poking around in her Outlook calendar (I’m nothing if not investigative!), I noticed she’d scheduled a daily...

Email You-Know-What: What’s the Root Cause?

It’s brewing. There’s an email issue among us, and I’m going to TAKE.IT.ON. So, what is the real issue? There are lots of theories. Some of it’s behavioral, like FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), some of it’s structural (must you know EVERYTHING that goes on in your...
My New Year’s Resolution: Email Recommitments

My New Year’s Resolution: Email Recommitments

Rumor has it I’m considered an expert on this productivity stuff. . . calendars, time management, to-do lists, what-have-you. But it doesn’t mean I’m perfect. Far from it. . . In fact, my dear friend Hilary likes to lovingly remind me of my famous Sunday...
Communication Expectations: Sample Alert!

Communication Expectations: Sample Alert!

Email: Love it or hate it, it’s here to stay. Most schools let email slowly creep up and then get into a doom loop of oversending, non-responding, pesky reminding, urgent replying, between-every-class-smartphone-checking, and well, you get the picture. We have long...