How vague subject lines hurt your team’s productivity
Would you spend a few seconds thinking about subject lines to make your team more productive and alleviate stress?
Would you spend a few seconds to make your team more productive and alleviate stress?
There is an easy way to do so, but experience and conversations with colleagues tell me many ignore what works in favor of what is easy.
What helps PR pros win the game when connecting with our journalist friends can also help your internal comms and make your teams more efficient.
In my last column, I explored the trigger-warning topic that associates who become upset after receiving texts from their superiors after hours are soft. It stemmed from many European countries banning after-hours texting for employers. The actual issue was not whether these team members were unduly stressed by these messages, but rather whether each message was sent through the appropriate channel relative to its perceived importance.
Superiors were erring on the side of convenience over what was right for their employees.
Texting wasn’t the true issue. What was being communicated, when, and its perceived importance were the real problem.
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