[Grad-postdoc-assn] Honing email-writing skills

[Valerie Sloan]

Good morning, and Happy Wednesday!

Email is a huge part of what we do, and doing it well can make a big
difference in how things go.
I got two excellent tips from an organizational change psychologist years
ago, that were:

1. Reread your email three times before sending it out (esp. content-heavy
or important ones).

2. Follow up meetings with an email recapping the meeting, stating action
items (and who is to do those), and keeping momentum going. You don't have
to be the project or group lead to do this; in that case just say you want
to follow up so that you are clear about things. The beautiful thing is
that people know what they need to and by when, and later you can refer
back to it to see where things were left.

Here is a new article in Nature
<https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00592-2> on writing emails to
colleagues/PIs about scientific projects.

Do you have a good resource or know of any short courses on how to write
effective emails?  Please tell us! (reply to all).

Have a good day,

Val


-- 
Valerie Sloan, Ph.D.
NCAR Early Career Professional Development Lead
& Director of the GEO REU Network
<https://ncar.ucar.edu/what-we-offer/education-outreach/faculty-resources/geo-reu-resource-center>
NCAR Education, Engagement and Early-Career Development
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Email: vsloan at ucar.edu

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unceded
territory of Indigenous People, including people of the Arapaho, Cheyenne,
and
<https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/indigenous-peoples-native-american-history-us-canada-colonialism-news-16521/>
Ute Nations
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