Books
Brilliant Email
Brilliant Email will show you how to use email effectively to win back time and dramatically improve your personal productivity and work/life balance.
Using this book, you will learn how to:
- Reduce the volume of email you deal with each day;
- Write your message clearly and in an appropriate style;
- Select when to use email and when to use an alternative;
- Slim down the size of your mailbox;
- Use your email software to manage the flow of email traffic;
- Help your colleagues to use email more effectively.
The principles in this book have been developed over the last decade as a result of the author’s work with individuals and organisations of all sizes (from micro to global FTSE top 100). By adopting some of these basic principles of email best practice, you will learn how to take control of your inbox to dramatically improve your productivity, your quality of life and never send an ineffective email ever again.
Book Reviews
With ‘Brilliant Email’ Monica has created a unique reference book for email users, which combines a ‘Haynes Manual’ and ‘Debrett’s’. This book will appeal to every strata of the business world.
Jerry Stimpson, General Manager, Crown Closures UK
If there’s anything you want to know about email and getting the best out of it Monica knows the answer…This book is a really good reference point for people who want to tame their e-mail addiction and improve their skills.
Tim Allen, Business Systems Manager, Balfour Beatty Rail Infrastructure
Other Books

Monica has carried out in-depth research, over the years, into how IT and especially electronic communications (in particular email) can be used to improve personal efficiency and productivity.
From her findings and extensive work with clients she has published two books, both of which have received excellent reviews:
‘Managing in the Email Office’ by Monica Seeley and Gerard Hargreaves, published by Butterworth-Heinemann (ISBN: 0750656980).
‘Using the PC to Boost Executive Performance’ by Monica Seeley published by Gower Publishing Limited. (ISBN: 0566081105).
Her recent work on gender difference and email etiquette and email management have just been published in:
Gender and Communication at Work edited by Mary Barrett and Marilyn Davidson and published by Ashgate (ISBN: 0754638405).
- Copies can be ordered either from Amazon or the publishers.
