Email etiquette for New Managers

In this blog, I will share few email etiquette for first time managers that must be followed for quicker response.

Srihari Udugani
7 min readJan 17, 2024
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Those who have moved into management role recently, ignore the email etiquette. Due to this, there will be long discussions or no response for the requests or decision made through email.

The delay in response to an email results in longer decision cycle and in-turn frustration of not progressing, which further leads to unnecessary pressure.

Many of the first time managers, write an email as if it is an essay with lot of information. The questions are embedded so deep in the content, that the reader cannot understand what to respond or provides an incorrect response.

Email communication is used to reduce the number of meetings and also to collaborate with remote teams. So it becomes at-most important to learn how to write an email that will get the required responses quickly and removes the need for meetings as much as possible.

In this blog, I will share the mistakes to avoid and few tips to write emails for better results.

The situation

New managers move into management role from an individual contributor role. While being in individual…

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Srihari Udugani
Srihari Udugani

Written by Srihari Udugani

Writes about management techniques and frameworks that can be implemented immediately.

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