Every day I have two routines to perform: 1. Telephone conference (Short as T-con) 2. Checking Email
T-Con consumes 30% of my time and Email Checking kills 40% of workload. Having discussion with team members covers rest of total workload.
Actually, 60% of T-Con time is used to talk some unuseful affairs because no specific topics are raised in agenda before meeting. Definitely, it was the mistake of he chair person who should confine the topics and scope of topics need to be discussed in meeting while setting out of meeting. As you encounter often, people alway can not follow the main line while they are thinking or talking. They alway jump from one point to another point before complete the first point.
Email is the basic communicating way in many company. Generally, I have to view at least more than 60 mails a day and reply at leat half of them. It's a tough job because you have to judge whether and how to repy each mail.