Included on this page are assorted suggestions and resources related to managing your professional life while serving as chair.
Make friends with Google. Keeping Chairs Meeting notes on one running Google Doc that you share with the department means you have one less email to send or announcement to make.
Be clear about your boundaries and preferences: communicate to your colleagues and students if you don't answer email after 9pm, whether you accept phone calls/texts, whether your office door closed means you need to get some work done.
Make a list of your own personal boilerplate language for department-specific emails in an easily-accessed Google or Word Doc for fast copy/paste.
If you have big deadlines ahead, mark your calendar with both the deadline itself *and* the block of time you'll use to work on the project.
Get comfortable with delegating instead of asking for volunteers. Occasionally asking a colleague for help completing a task is far more effective than always carrying the department's workload alone.
http://www.asccc.org/content/participate-how-get-faculty-engaged-and-involved http://achievingthedream.org/system/files_force/resources/PRESS%20One%20Pager.pdf?...Cached
http://govleaders.org/delegation-and-time-management.htm
https://arthropodecology.com/2013/09/26/the-art-of-delegation-perspectives-from-academia/