How to Easily Manage Your Communications

How to Easily Manage Your Communications

From Your Time, Your Way by Carl Pullein

March 22, 2026 · 15 min · Episode 412

About this episode

This episode discusses strategies for managing communications effectively to enhance productivity.

Email, Teams, Slack and other instant messaging systems are great, until they clog up our day and we find we spend more time responding to messages than we do doing any meaningful work. What can we do? Well, that’s what I’m answering in this week’s episode. Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin Get the Email Mastery Course Here The Hybrid Productivity Course Get Your Copy Of Your Time, Your Way: Time Well Managed, Life Well Lived The Working With… Weekly Newsletter Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl’s YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes Subscribe to my Substack The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page Script | 409 Hello, and welcome to episode 409 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show. Last week was a workshop week for me. I finished off the Ultimate Productivity Workshop and held an in-company session. During both sessions, a similar question was raised. How to manage your time when you are compelled to respond to your messages instantly or at the very least within a few…

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Host: Carl Pullein

Topics covered

  • communication management
  • productivity
  • time management
  • instant messaging
  • work-life balance

Keywords

  • email management
  • Slack
  • Teams
  • instant messaging
  • productivity tips
  • time management strategies

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