Good evening Devansh,

Writing emails is something that everyone has to do regardless of the field you are in. You have to write emails for various purposes and different people - from team members to industry experts.  

Writing emails is something that everyone has to do regardless of the field you are in. You have to write emails for various purposes and different people - from team members to industry experts.

Is writing a bad email going to ruin your career? No. But learning the unspoken rules for writing professional emails can improve how competent you appear in the eyes of your colleagues. In this newsletter I want you to go through the HBR collaboration with YouTube creator Jeff Su to learn how to better organize your email communications and avoid typical rookie mistakes.

In this talk, Jeff Su tells you 8 simple yet important email etiquette that can make your emails more professional and effective.

The tips are very simple and you might be using some of them already but sometimes. Take tip 3 for example :

Email etiquette tip number three: Explain why you added in or took out recipients in email threads. There are many situations you have to add someone into the email thread to get their input or take someone out to spare their inbox. A professional and easy way to do this is to add a sentence at the very top of the email clearly showing who you added in or took out. I like to add parentheses and italicize the font to separate it from the actual email body. This way, the readers know who the new recipients are immediate.

It is very common to add/remove people in email threads for various reasons.  For example - say you asked a colleague to connect you with someone via mail. After getting connected and before you carry the conversation further, you move your colleague to bcc. But as the above tip suggested, it’s always done by acknowledging it.

Now I will leave you with the complete video to make your emails better than before.

Adios!!

Best,
Shubham and Vatsal
BBR English

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