Drowning In Email? Improve Results And Save More Time With This Book.

Press Release • Nov 4, 2014

This book helps readers send clear, concise email. Readers learn planning, drafting, and formatting techniques that save time and advance specific business needs with every message.

Oakland, California, November 4, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Effective Email is a new book that shows readers ways to boost efficiency, avoid risks, seize opportunities, and advance their business needs with each email they send out. Author Natasha Terk has been the managing director of the consulting and training firm Write It Well since 2004. The firm has 35 years of expertise in helping clients streamline their work and deliver effective messages.

The Wall Street Journal and Forbes interviewed Terk this year to ask how investing in communication skills boosts your professional success. Here are some of the ways:

Email grew up in the lawless frontier of the Internet, without the traditional rules of old-fashioned letter writing. This valuable book provides much-needed guidelines for managing the demands and opportunities email has brought to the workplace.

Deborah Fallows, Author of Dreaming in Chinese

To show leadership by inspiring others with a clear vision
To practice teamwork by asking questions and CCing others
To present a clear, concise analysis or step-by-step procedure
To stay on schedule with regular project management updates

Email is always competing with an ocean of other job documents and tasks — not to mention social media messages and notes between friends. Effective Email has separate chapters on clear language and concise language. They help the book’s readers send focused messages that are very easy for their own readers to respond to.

The book goes far beyond questions of etiquette by putting writing tools at your fingertips. Its advice improves your email experience as a reader and a writer …

Whether you’re staring at a blank screen and need to break the ice
Or you need to cut to the chase and get clear information from coworkers, clients, or customers who send you vague messages

You can use the book to navigate through several fundamental questions:

When should I meet face to face or pick up the phone instead of emailing?
Who should go on my CC line?
How do I keep email mobile-friendly?
How do I help readers notice and use an attachment?
When should I update my subject line in a long message thread?

A chapter on email planning helps you put yourself in your readers’ shoes and appreciate how they’ll react to your message. This kind of clear thinking saves time for everyone, keeps you easy to work with, and boosts your credibility.

This approach is also highly flexible: you’ll learn how to shape every single email to the communication needs at hand. And with this book, you won’t have to sort through a laundry list of email templates to weed out messages that no one in your department sends.

Write It Well training participants range from new hires to Fortune 500 executives. Terk and her team of instructional designers and trainers use Effective Email to deliver onsite and online trainings — either off the shelf or custom-tailored for one organization’s writing needs and writing samples.

The book is available in three formats:

Print and digital editions as well as a Kindle e-book
The Anatomy of an Email webinar, which Write It Well can customize to your unique communication challenges
The online e-learning course on the Write It Well Academy

Effective Email helps individual readers hone key communication skills that most employees never bother with. And it helps managers polish an entire department’s or organization’s image. The book helps everyone avoid email headaches, it keeps your business running smoothly, and it benefits your bottom line.