How to Write an Email (No, Really) | Victoria Turk | TEDxAthens

I think this is the first time I’m saying this about a TED Talk but I disagree with some of what the speaker is conveying. IME, leaders who send one word emails (e.g. ?) are not necessarily poor communicators as many align with their team directly to explain their “email language” which is created for brevity and efficiency.

Viva insights is great for delaying emails automatically. It will send the email during the receivers work hours. Especially good if you’re a manager that wants to signal that you don’t expect answers at midnight (even if you’re sending emails at that hour). Also if you work in different time zones. 😅furthermore, your outlook dosnt have to be open for it to send like the normal delay functionality.

Everything important should be included in the first sentence. They are not going to read the second sentence most of the time anyway.

This is the worst ted talk I have ever seen

I think most of those sign offs she mentioned not to use are ok. What's wrong with varying it a little?

Thank u all very much

I dont understand why people give speeches and we listen to them when they memorised the entire script. Cant they just write it and we can read it?

I want to send you an email!

You should have signed off with best wishes. Missed opportunity jajajaja

jesus the audience look bored

I as an immigrant learned so much. I did not know that email could be so much important.

Thank you for this Ted talk. My emails always get misconstrued. Sometimes I wonder if I should be more mean to match the image in my email recipients’ minds.

Omg - I didnt have a problem to use "Thanks in advance" in most of my response. Cant imagine the kind of attitude it delivered to the receivers.

Quite a good summary but got off track from the CC rule… well it would be nice if everyone followed it but if only you do it and they mention your name and you ignore the email just because you are CC’d in vs addressed in the TO entry then it’s a broken/flawed concept, also you can be CC’d and later directly addressed and then what? Ignore it? Just treat each email as important as any other unless you 100% know everyone follows the CC rule, I know that we all need to take any recommendations with a grain of salt but people do listen to advice and will take things to the extreme.
Also “Best wishes” sounds to informal, as a friendly sign off 100% agree but not a serious formal email, Kind Regards works well and commonly accepted as formal reply by all in most industries

Thanks, Victoria, for raising our awareness to all these aspects of our daily e-mailing activities. Yes, we are well-advised to communicate openly about our e-mail-etiquette and make clear agreements about it. This makes life and communication easier and more cheerful for all of us.

Loved the video and delivery of the talk.

Most of the etiquette rules are silly & pointless.
I am now tempted to break them just to see easily "outraged" people fume :)

This was a great video on a simple, everyday task that we all thought we were doing correctly!

Très pertinent sur les nouveaux modes de communication

Nhìn Dương Thanh Vàng đàn ông quá ko quen haha

Those emails that are signed off ‘best’

I think everyone but me used my email
..wish I could learn more about it's uses when it mattered

I really like the speaker. Great presenting skills.

As a pastor's kid, I kinda absorbed my dad's way to end emails, he uses, "In His bonds", which is perfect becayse my first office job is Christian, I don't know if I shiuld keep it though.

Haven't ever thought, but this is a part of my college assignment😌

brilliantly explained e-mailing process

My boss once sent me an email with a question mark, I responded with two question marks. Five minutes he was at my desk explaining what he wanted me to do with it. 😁

Imagine my disappointment when she said ‘Kind Regards’ was too pompous. That’s my go-to sign off 😔

She sounds so tense, loosen up darling

OCD says i'd like to receive the third thanks.

When she called Jeff Bezos impolite i was like ♥♥♥♥

me after signing off an email with kind regards.....

Lovely! I love this woman, her intelligence! Fantastic!

perfection overloaded.

It's all about the preference and knowing your audience.

I paid for a college education just so I can watch this 15 minute video on how to write an email... wtf, lol what a waste of time and money, doesn't even take 3 minutes to learn how to write an email, and thats if you dont know how to write an email by 18-19 years old -_-

someone got really pissed off because they got rickrolled after handing out their business card to people so they made an entire ted talk about it, i can sense it

My Replika send me this... Why though

Emojis are modern hieroglyphs

Thanks in advance

Love her dress! Wish I knew where it was from.

any lyceans watching this as well? lmao

Victoria Turk: Actually gives a lot of helpful and sensible information.
What I learn: Become a billionaire so you can reply all your emails with one character. (I would probably just put single gifs or memes thou)

つまりどういうこと？！

She is beautiful.

A few good thoughts here, but the aversion to detail in emails doesn't make sense in every situation, and I'd offer that most emails would do better with a more complete approach to logically ordering the facts needed to achieve whatever outcome the email is intended for. Communication is difficult because everyone speaks and listens through their own filters/context, so how does providing less information create more efficiency (unless the information was superfluous, of course), given some recipients may require all details/timelines/issues laid out in a digestible format that can be referred back to at a later date? 

This seems less of a primer for improved communication and more of a reaction to shortened attention spans, declining reading comprehension skills, and thin-skinned people who read aggression into every "thanks in advance". Ironically, as one of the other comments so helpfully suggested, her presentation was greatly improved by increasing video speed by 1.5. 

Thanks in advance for considering my perspective ;)

Her breathing is making me suffocated. Great great content though