Simple 2 Min Outlook Tricked Saved My Job and Boosted My Confidence

Every day we interact with several people through digital channels. Email is one of the effective channels which can make or break leaders.

I have seen people with lots of technical skills struggling to send a mail with two lines. Since they have fear over the impact it brings upon their workday. It may pull lots of works, it may break their reputation, it can even result in a job loss if the emails are addressed to the wrong person.

One another issue we face when sending emails is we are not comfortable reading the email we have written due to carelessness or overconfidence in ourselves.

Fun Fact: People normally remember or identify their mistake in the email after hitting send button. The mistake can be simple as add your manager in CC or Removing the unwanted person from email or adding your signature in the email or forget to attach the document in email.

Yes, I have face all those above problems in day to day work life. but as a continuous learner, I like to improvise myself on day to day basis. I found a solution for this problem from one of my mentors.

Copying is wrong, but it’s good to copy some best practices. so what is the practice.?

In my outlook mailbox, I have done the delivery setting in such a way that all my mail will go to the outbox and sit there for 2 min before getting delivered to the end-users. yes, it’s a trick that saves me from 90% of email mistakes.

Yes, the remaining 10% , I still do mistakes which will be criticized by my friends at work . it’s inevitable, we have to accept our mistake and will not try a better way to avoid it next time.