Your organizational leaders are challenged with ensuring employees are properly trained in maintaining appropriately-sized email stores.  Anything you can do to keep your email account organized helps.  A well maintained email account also ensures you are taking action on received emails in a timely manner.  Below are a few tips for maintaining and organizing your email account:

• Read mail frequently, daily if possible but at least several times per week.
• Reply to mail promptly. Even if you don't have the time to compose a full response, a quick message to acknowledge receipt and set expectations for a more detailed response is always appreciated.
• After taking any action needed, file the message in an appropriate folder or delete it. Do not maintain a long list of in limbo messages in your inbox.

This blog is part of the Email Best Practices Series.  Check out the other blog posts in the series:

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