Email management is a completely delegatable task which majority of the executives feel is their work. Ignoring valuable admin resources makes your system less valuable. Executives doing the tasks of an admin are clear waste of time. Delegate what can be delegated then meet 15 minutes each day of your work week to discuss on important matters. You may focus on the context of the mails under the criteria of what is coming in and not who it’s coming from. You need to filter out important corporate mails from spam and personal mails. Admin can certainly do this for you. Unable to delegate the simplest email handling task erodes trust and may affect work relationship and your effectiveness. CEOs must know how valuable admin are. They must learn how to prioritize email while they are looking at your mailbox and not before that. I repeat give training while they are sitting at their chairs, at their desk, opening your mails and not standing at your table looking at your desktop. There is a big difference to that. Orientation should come with full hands on training to determine content samples.

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