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

[Gabriella Meltzer]

Thank you very much for your message. I am currently on maternity leave and checking email infrequently. I will reply to you as soon as I am able. 

Warmly, 
Gabriella 

On Mar 1, 2023, at 10:14 AM, Valerie Sloan via Grad-postdoc-assn <grad-postdoc-assn at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:

> 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 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
> NCAR Education, Engagement and Early-Career Development
> P.O. Box 3000
> Boulder, CO 80307-3000
> Email: vsloan at ucar.edu
> 
> I recognize that Boulder, Colorado, sits on the ancestral homelands and unceded
> territory of Indigenous People, including people of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and 
> Ute Nations. 
> 
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