Benefits of Professional Email Etiquette
📌 Mastering professional email etiquette impacts how competent you are perceived by colleagues, even if mistakes won't capsize your career.
⏳ Well-crafted emails save the reader's time by providing relevant information clearly and concisely.
✍️ Strong communication skills, demonstrated through good emails, help the sender come across as more capable.

Top Eight Email Etiquette Tips
1️⃣ Subject Line Clarity: Go beyond "Action Required"; specify the action needed and the estimated time commitment (e.g., "5 minutes survey feedback for Project X").
2️⃣ Thread Consistency: Stick to one email thread for the same topic to maintain context and prevent inbox clutter from multiple separate emails.
3️⃣ Recipient Management: Clearly explain *why* recipients were added or removed, preferably using parentheses and italics at the top of the email body.
4️⃣ Main Point First: Always place the main request or point first, followed by the context, to respect the time of busy recipients, especially senior ones.
5️⃣ Summarize Disorganized Emails: If you receive a convoluted message, summarize the sender's main points in your reply before responding; this confirms understanding and shows effort.
6️⃣ Hyperlink Usage: Hyperlink external links using keyboard shortcuts (Cmd/Ctrl + K) instead of pasting long URLs; this looks cleaner and reduces the risk of typos.
7️⃣ Default Reply Setting: Change your default setting from "Reply All" to "Reply" to contain potential mistakes to just one recipient if an error is made in a rushed reply.
8️⃣ Increase "Undo Send" Time: Change the default "Undo Send" setting from 5 seconds to 30 seconds to allow more time to catch mistakes after hitting send.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Be specific in subject lines by stating the exact required action and the time it will take, such as "Approve spending estimates for Q4" or "5 minutes survey feedback."
➡️ Never split discussions; always use the original email chain for follow-up questions or new ideas on a single project to keep all information centralized.
➡️ Prioritize the recipient's need: Lead with your request, pushing background context—especially justifications for emailing—to the end, as senior leaders usually only need to know the necessary action.
➡️ Optimize safety nets: Adjust settings in your email client to default to "Reply" instead of "Reply All" and extend "Undo Send" to 30 seconds.

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