From the course: Productivity Tips: Taking Control of Email

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Share email with a team member

Share email with a team member

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Share email with a team member

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- Most of the time, most of us are the only ones using our email inbox. However, there are times when it's a wise strategy to share your email inbox with someone else to distribute the load and be more productive. So examples include if a team member goes on medical leave and someone else needs to help them with their email while they're gone. Or where someone has an assistant, virtual or otherwise, who is trying to lighten the load. First, you'll want to establish one person as the primary email user. In other words, they're ultimately in charge of what gets sent out of the box and the other person acts as the secondary user. It doesn't matter who you choose for which role, so long as there's a hierarchy. Second, you're going to need to set things up technically so that you can both access the email. This may be as simple as sharing a user name and password, or it may be more complex where you need to involve your I.T…

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