A CEO recently told me, “I work best late at night. I sometimes end up sending emails out at 10:30 at night with requests for my staff. I don’t want to interrupt their family time but all too often, I receive immediate responses. I’ll say in the email that there’s no need to reply until morning, to no avail.”

After discussing a couple options, we settled on setting up a delay on his Outlook emails so that they won’t send until 6:30 in the morning when the first of his staff start arriving. Within an Outlook email message, I had him click on the Options ribbon and then the Delay Delivery command.

Just this one thing, makes this CEO feel better when working late and lets his staff relax and refresh rather than going to bed thinking about emails.

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