SDD 2008 ideas

(Anyone still "feeding" here?)

When do we start thinking about SDD 2008?

As I've gone around to all my branches and tried to find out what most of the Managers' feel they need my help with, email overload has come up time and time again as a major problem for them. At our recent Branch Managers' meeting last week I went over some email management ideas with them (creating contact groups; using email filters; moving stuff from inbox and sent into folders) and a few of them were very glad to hear about some these options -- for the first time. I gave them some printouts of screen shots and they thought that would help them put some of the features to better use. I've already heard back from two who are having better luck with their email now.

Anyway, they thought some of these email management techniques (and not just the technical stuff, but some ideas about time allotment, cutting back on cc'ing, and judgments about when/if to use email v. phone and/or in-person) would be good for all staff to know, so I told them I'd pass the request on to the SDD team for consideration for a Staff Development Day in the future.