21. Starting an email with the end
Translated from the French original.
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For several months now, I’ve had the pleasure of working in tandem with Gwenaelle. She works in a large industrial organisation.
We’ve built up quite a rapport, as we work together on an acute form of meeting-itis 🙂
One day, as we were chatting on the phone.
“Tell me, Louis, don’t you think my emails are too long?”
“Yes and no,” I replied.
“No, because your explanations are precise and the choice of words seems right to me.”
“Yes, because the read can feel a little long. Try saying at the start where you want to take us.”
And then the first secret of Reuniology came back to me.
“Start with the end”
What if that secret worked for emails too.
Say in the very first words what you expect from the reader.
Yesterday, as I was typing an email, I remembered that conversation and applied two disciplines:
– clearly express the intention of the message,
– re-read it to check that my wording was clear and frugal.
Start with the end, and nothing will ever seem long again…
So recommends the email-ologist 🙂
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