The first step in catapulting your career ahead of your competitors is
fully to use Microsoft Outlook. If you are using Outlook mainly to send
and receive email and to record appointments and meetings, about 85% of
the power of Microsoft Outlook is being left unused.
In this
session you will learn how to customize the Calendar for productivity,
overcoming hurdles that delay the completion of tasks and projects while
creating a methodical way to meet deadlines. With this session, you can
be assured nothing slips through the cracks.
Well-known business
writer Tom Peters asked, "How does a major project get to be a year
late?" And then he answered his own question: "One day at a time." As an
individual contributor, it is your responsibility to complete your
assignments on time. With this instruction you’ll keep your projects
moving down the tracks at a steady speed and finish by the deadline plus
you’ll have a tool for setting and reaching your personal goals.
This
session teaches the secrets of using the Calendar and Tasks Folders in
tandem, supporting assignments from a deep-dive organizational
standpoint to keeping track of urgent deadlines. The techniques
demonstrated makes Outlook a reliable tool for exponential productivity.
When the principles are implemented, you will gain company-wide
recognition for completing your assignments on time and being a valuable
team player.
When you are in snowy mountains, you take great
care to avoid areas where an avalanche might occur. In the workplace,
you want to avoid an avalanche of emails dumping into your inbox on a
daily basis.
In this session, you will learn to dig out from the
heavy load of tasks that arrive via email and work from a cleaner
Outlook Inbox. You will gain the skills to reduce what flows into your
Inbox while expediting email processing.
You'll get quick tips
for processing email in Outlook that can save you precious minutes every
day and help you leave work on time. You'll be amazed at how many
features the Outlook Inbox has that can help you organize, sort and
prioritize email - enabling you to stay on top of urgent tasks and
project deadlines. You'll work faster and smarter as you process email
and benefit from instructions to:
Now that you have conquered the
Calendar, Tasks and Inbox, this session will teach you advanced
techniques to further customize Outlook to your personality, job, and
work habits. As you examine the additional features explored in this
session, you'll discover that if you know what you want to do in
Outlook, you can find a way to do it. It's like programming your
productivity!
Why you should attend
To function in the 21st
century workplace, you need superior time management and technology
skills. This webinar brings you both. Microsoft Outlook is a great
technology tool for self-management IF you understand the time
management benefits of the Outlook features.
This webinar
infuses time management principles into Microsoft Outlook and brings you
superior techniques for staying on top of your workload. You win in
both world: time management and technology.
As the time
management principle is explained, you will recognize it and wonder why
you have not been successfully practicing it. This program refreshes the
time management principle and makes you a winner by coaching you on how
to use the principle in Microsoft Outlook.
The Microsoft
Outlook tips and techniques will save you nanoseconds that add up to
hours of time. You will think you found 1 extra hour a day.
Who Will Benefit
This
time and technology webinar has broad appeal and is instructive for all
employees who want to be more productive and who want to understand the
time management features of Microsoft Outlook. This webinar is a
critical element of productivity for:
- Administrative personnel
- Team leaders
- Team members
- Project managers
- Project team members
- Engineering teams
- Managers at all levels of the company
- Executives
- Sales professionals
- Sales managers
- Customer service personnel
- Employees who use Microsoft Outlook for just email and appointments
Karla Brandau is a thought
leader in management and team building techniques. She trains managers
to improve their relationship with the employees to earn their gift of
discretionary effort. She specializes in personalities, communication
skills, leadership principles. She is the CEO of Workplace Power
Institute and has educated mangers with her proven leadership principles
in companies such as Motorola, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Panasonic, and
BYD America.
She has a degree in education and is a Certified
Speaking Professional, an earned designation given by National Speakers
Association. Karla’s book, How to Earn the Gift of Discretionary Effort,
teaches managers how to be the leader people CHOOSE to follow, not have
to follow because of their position on the organizational chart.
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08:00 AM PDT | 11:00 AM EDTSession 1: Catapult Your Career with These Time Management and Microsoft Outlook Techniques Duration: 75 minutes
This session includes how to:
- Use the calendar to manage the daily workflow and keep track of sensitive deadlines
- Estimate the time tasks take and complete work within the identified time frame
- Never miss a meeting
- Use categories to help sort information in all folders: Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Inbox
- Use the Outlook Calendar to provide a workload overview
- Pace daily productivity
- Keep a track of project deadlines
- Ensure you keep a track of personal "life balance" activities
- Use Categories to help you sort information
- Use the "All day event" designation for your advantage
- Stop procrastination
Session 2: How Using the Tasks and Calendar in Tandem Gives You Unprecedented ProductivityDuration: 90 minutes
You will benefit professionally as you learn how to:
- Identify the differences between the To-Do List, Tasks, and the To-Do Bar
- Use the Tasks Folder to organize complex work requests
- Record and remember all assignments and deadlines
- Prioritize delegated tasks and projects
- Remove completed tasks from your working view
- Create new folders for multifaceted projects
- Capture all details of every project
- Customize column headings in Task folders enabling the user to view project-relevant information
- Tailor reminder windows with REAL information
- Record details and time spent on each assignment
- Use the Tasks folder and the Calendar in tandem to plot mid-assignment check points
- Using
the tips and techniques taught in this session will enable you to stop
spinning your wheels in unproductive activities. You will leave the
office on time with a calm feeling that your assignments are under
control.
- BONUS: We’ll cover how to use the Assign Tasks feature
in the Tasks folder, enabling managers to receive up-to-date information
on the status of assigned tasks for each direct report.
Session 3: Surviving Avalanche Email: Take Control of Your InboxDuration: 75 minutes
Session Highlights
- Clear your Inbox every day
- Handle work assigned to you via email
- Use reminders effectively
- Organize and search for emails you need to keep
- Use "Favorites" to highlight frequently used folders
- Move email automatically to selected folders
- Understand features such as "Ignore," and "Clean Up"
- Group conversation topics with "Show As Conversations"
- Take advantage of voting buttons
- Discover Quick Parts and Quick Steps
- Set preferred commands with the Quick Access Toolbar
Session 4: Become an Outlook Geek: Tips for the Advanced UserDuration: 45 minutes
In this advanced session you will learn how to:
- Set conditional formatting
- Choose personal folder options in the File Tab
- Enable the Weather Bar
- Set two Time Zones
- Use the Rules Wizard
- Give delegate access to calendars and tasks
- Customize signatures and use them in innovative ways
- Archive information
- Move PST files to another computer
- Use simple keyboard shortcuts
- Use Search Folders
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