Here's a quick tip for those of you who use email at work:
Avoid email for the first hour of your workday! That's right, don't even look at it until you've had a chance to plan for your day and spend some time strategizing about what's important and what you want to do to further your work goals.

This simple bit of advice will "transform your life according to time management expert Julie Morgenstern. At her presentation, "Making Work, Work at the SHRM Annual Conference in June, she added, "Email is really nothing more than a bunch of interruptions and other people's problems.

Although technology helps us be more efficient and email is great tool for getting things done, the trick is to not let it control us. Morgenstern breaks work into two categories: staccato and legato. Staccato is reactive and consists of calls, emails, approvals and crises. Legato is more strategic and innovative and involves writing, strategy, analysis and design. You don't want the Staccato type work to dominate your work-day. Create some time for the Legato.

Other "tips she offered include:

1. Embrace your work/life balance.
2. Choose the most important tasks.
3. Create the time to get things done.
4. Control the time "nibblers (perfectionism, procrastination, interruptions and meetings).
5. Organize at the speed of change.
6. Develop an entrepreneurial mind-set.
7. Master delegation.
8. Work well with others.
9. Leverage your value.