It is common practice to set up an email signature but there is alway room to improve. In principal there are two kinds of email signature:
1) When you write a new mail
When you initiate a new mail you should include your full email signature with name, title and contact details. It will also save you significant time if you also include a general greeting above your signature so that you don’t write “Best regards” hundreds of times per week. In case you work in an international environment where you might use more than one language you can put the greetings in multiple languages next to each other.
2) When you reply to a mail
Even when you only reply to a mail I recommend to add an email signature. But to do not write all the staff again each time but just the essential such as your name, your phone number and your mail address. In case the receiver wants to give you a quick phone call it will save him time.
I recommend making it easy for your email addressees to give you a phone call. Many misunderstandings and completely useless email exchanges could be avoided if one just took the phone to clarify the issue.
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