Email like a boss
Why waste a sentence saying nothing? ―Seth Godin
👥 Serves: 1 person
🎚 Difficulty: Easy
⏳ Total time: Ongoing
🥣 Ingredients: Device to access your emails; Internet
🤓 Wholebeing Domains: Accomplishments, Community, Digital Consciousness, Radical Care
💪 Wholebeing Skills: Assertiveness, Digital agency, Digital discernment, Digital relating, Emotional intelligence, Honesty, Kindness, Openness, Respect
Email like a boss
📝 Description
Tips to reformulate your emails to build assertiveness.
In our recipe “Mindful emailing”, we introduced a practice to help you improve your relationship with emails because let’s admit it, they do our heads in! However, we can’t quite get rid of them… So the following activity collects a series of tips by Dani Donovan that can help you rethink how you formulate your emails to build assertiveness, decisiveness, and self-confidence. Happy emailing!
You can find out more about Dani Donovan’s work at https://www.adhddd.com.
👣 Steps
Step 1 – It took a while but you can deal
❌ Sorry for the delay.
✅ Thanks for your patience.
Step 2 – My schedule matters too
❌ What works best for you?
✅ Could you do __:___?
Step 3 – Yeah, you’re welcome
❌ No problem / No worries!
✅ Always happy to help!
Step 4 – I know what I’m doing
❌ I think maybe we should ___.
✅ It’d be best if we ____.
Step 5 – Wording this is hard
❌ *Rewriting email for 40 minutes*
✅ It’d be easier to discuss in person.
Step 6 – Do you get it?
❌ Hopefully that makes sense?
✅ Let me know if you have questions.
Step 7 – Where the heck are we on this?
❌ Just wanted to check in.
✅ When can I expect an update?
Step 8 – I made a small error
❌ Ahh sorry! My bad. Totally missed that.
✅ Nice catch! Updated file attached. Thanks for letting me know!
Step 9 – I have an appointment
❌ Could I possibly leave early?
✅ I will need to leave for ___ at __:__.