Monica Beere

Hello! With the abundance of emails that are sent out every day in our organization, I have found bullet points to be the most effective. We have noticed that because emails are sent so frequently, employees have a tendency to skim emails instead of ready through them. I thought this section provided some great ideas on how to be the most effective in written communication.

Good communication is a major area of opportunity in the department where I work. We spend so much time sending emails and holding meetings that I believe we often overcommunicate instead of effectively communicating. What that has led to is employees deleting emails before reading them and a lack of interest in attending meetings. Moving forward, I think it's important to have more of a game plan on how to effectively communicate with the team during meetings and keeping emails down to a minimum.

It has taken me a long time to learn how to balance stress and leaving it in the workplace. I have always encouraged my team to have a balance between work and an outside life, but for a long time I was not practicing what I was preaching!

This information has been very useful. I work in a department of 30 and in order to successfully manage the group, my boss and I have to play off of each other's strenths and weaknesses constantly. This forum reinforced how important it is to do that!