EMAIL Productivity Survey
The WallCann Academy has discovered that most organisations are experiencing one or more obstacles hindering organisations' communications performance and productivity. 
The WallCann Academy email communications survey below is possibly the most relevant checklist of symptoms leading to the recent phenomenon known as "Email Bankruptcy". This survey is the most up to date survey of its kind in Australia. The results are a snap shot of today's work environment, as rated by participants' in their pre-seminar survey data.
The organisations participating in this survey represent a cross section of the Australian workplace.
KEY EMAIL PRODUCTIVITY CHECKLIST |
Email Bankruptcy Symptoms Significance Rating |
| Email overload | 75% |
| Problem of what to delete or filter | 74% |
| Email time management challenge | 72% |
| Inbox always full | 69% |
| Time wasted filing emails | 69% |
| Setting email work and response priorities | 69% |
| Unnecessary correspondence | 69% |
| Delegating and forwarding email tasks | 63% |
| Spam overload | 56% |
| Incoming mail Interruptions | 44% |
| Lost emails | 44% |
| Negative attitude resulting from fear of PC | 31% |
| Internet not making any commercial sense | 25% |
| Slow internet speed | 13% |
The stand out digital communications challenge faced by Australian organisations today is the absence of practical professional Email communication training that also facilitates a change of work habits and attitudes. The cost of ignoring the challenge is longer working hours and lower work place productivity.
The symptoms of Email Bankruptcy are: Email overload with inboxes overflowing with unanswered correspondence. The immediate costs are failure to meet deadlines, poor planning and scheduling resulting in lost business.
Time wasters like lost emails, ineffective filing, mail interruptions and poor delegation are common. Significantly, slow internet or PC speed is the least important issue; of greater importance is the number of people who are not coming to grips with the digital decade.
There is a need for many to unlearn and relearn best practice communications.
Some senior level staff, who have not updated their digital knowledge with properly designed practical training, avoid using PC's and are actually resisting the need to relearn the effective use of new technology applications.
What are the answers? WallCann Academy can advise you and Boost your communications productivity now. Please call the WallCann Academy today!
