Too many women focus only on what they need to start doing in order to raise their professional profile. Making scintillating contributions in meetings, getting an audience with your boss’s boss, writing articles or books, speaking at a key event, getting featured in your company’s in-house publication, chairing committees, volunteering for extracurricular organizational activities, building strong internal and external networks, crafting a magic resume, using social media platforms wisely… the list of possible profile-raising “to-dos” is long and varied.

But before you embark on a flurry of activity, what about the things you must stop doing?  Unless you alter your mindset by first deleting three key behaviors, all the magnificent steps you take to raise your profile will feel like pushing water uphill with a fork.

The statistics on lost productivity due to “email dysfunction” are staggering! It may be impossible to control how other people use email, but you can control how you manage it. Here are 12 tips to get you started: