Managing your Inbox

Spend less time on email and stay reliably on top of your commitments

Commences: Monday, June 15, 2026

Two live online workshops + practical setup and implementation support

AUD $200+GST

For many educators, email becomes the place where everything accumulates:

• unfinished tasks
• requests waiting for responses
• meeting follow-ups
• things to remember
• and parents to call

And because teaching days are already full, email often spills into breaks, evenings, and weekends.

You probably feel you don’t have enough time to properly get on top of your inbox.

But in practice, not getting on top of your inbox is likely costing you even more time and attention across the week:

• re-reading emails
• looking for things
• trying to remember commitments
• and dealing with people chasing work you didn’t quite get to

Email is where requests arrive and where others follow up on your commitments. It is not a to-do list, but it often gets used as one.

When email is not managed well, important requests sit alongside low-value information, and it becomes harder to see clearly what actually needs attention. You can find yourself scanning your inbox to work out what matters, rather than knowing clearly what you’ve committed to and what needs action.

What’s often missing is a practical way to:

• make clear decisions about incoming work
• move actions and commitments to a trusted place
• reduce the mental clutter that builds around untracked tasks
• and build habits that help work move reliably without carrying everything in your head

What you’ll develop

In this course, you will expand your ability to:

• see email as a stream of requests and commitments, not just messages
• make clear decisions about each email, rather than re-reading and carrying it mentally
• set up a simple system for tracking actions, commitments, and documents
• build a rhythm of processing your inbox so work moves reliably
• stay on top of your commitments without using your inbox or your mind as a holding space

Course format

This short course is designed to fit within the rhythm of school life:

• Self-paced preparation (approx. 60 minutes)
• Live online workshop (90 minutes)
• Implementation period (at least one week)
• Online reflection and peer learning session (90 minutes)

Total guided learning time: 3–4 hours, plus application in your own work.

Who this is for

This course is designed for:

• School leaders, senior teachers and managers
• Those responsible for leading others or contributing to team performance
• Educators and managers who want to strengthen their leadership capability through practical skill development

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Alignment with Professional Standards

For teachers and principals this course supports:

• Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL)
  • Standard 6: Engage in professional learning
  • Standard 7: Engage professionally with colleagues
• Australian Professional Standard for Principals
  • Leading improvement through professional dialogue, collaboration, and staff development

Delivery details

Delivery mode: Online