Message #79266

[sy]

Thanks for your thoughts guys, really helpful. To clarify the overnight pack includes diary and papers for the following day. I also have a separate section for documents to read and documents to review and action. This all sounds great but I don't seem to know how to follow-up to make sure she has 1. read the documents she should have 2. ensure that she has actioned documents and that I know that it has been done. Thoughts please?

My personal style is for my boss to go through her emails and send me any items that needs to-follow up but at the same time, I will go through their emails and categorize and flag only emails that are 'Important & Urgent" but my new boss would like me to read all her emails and categorize them. My thoughts are categorizing emails as:
Urgent, no action required
Urgent, action required
Important but not urgent
Important requires action
Not important
For information/To read
To read and action

Personally, I think it is messy having so many categories especially reading it on your Blackberry but what do you think?

Atlanta z3 - interested to find out more about your folder system. Where is the folder kept? How does your boss know what he is looking for in terms of priority?

My last question is what trays do you have on your bosses desk? ie out tray, in-tray, action tray.

Thanks again.

S