Take control of your workload and competing priorities
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At a Glance
¿Who should attend?
Workgroups and teams including managers, technical and sales professionals, supervisors, administrators and project leaders who currently use Microsoft Outlook and are not optimizing this powerful software.
Format:
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Full day or two half day instructor-led sessions, in class or online
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Coaching session to reinforce learning
Tools:
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Learning Guide and activities workbook.
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Suscription to our monthly LearningLink e-newsletter
Related Training
- WorkingSm@rt in a Hybrid World
- WorkingSm@rt using MS Teams
- WorkingSm@rt using OneNote
- WorkingSm@rt in Meetings
This course offers a wealth of practical strategies and techniques that can be applied directly to your daily life. Discover effective methods for maintaining focus, minimizing distractions, and optimizing your energy levels. Understand the importance of working smarter, not harder, and discover how to implement these principles in your own work.
Gain practical experience and develop valuable skills to effectively implement proven time-management techniques. Learn how to seamlessly integrate communication, tasks, activities, and planning using Microsoft Outlook while following the WorkingSm@rt method.
This course will help you:
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Create a consistent focus on priorities
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Gain control of your inbox and email
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Improve your communications
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Efficiently manage your time, tasks and activities
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Use Outlook with a "business planning" approach
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Increase their understanding about working in those areas that add the most value and the need to prioritize.
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Recognize and manage distractions and interruptions.
At a Glance
¿Who should attend?
Workgroups and teams including managers, technical and sales professionals, supervisors, administrators and project leaders who currently use Microsoft Outlook and are not optimizing this powerful software.
Format:
-
Full day or two half day instructor-led sessions, in class or online
-
Coaching session to reinforce learning
Tools:
-
Learning Guide and activities workbook.
-
Suscription to our monthly LearningLink e-newsletter
Related Training
- WorkingSm@rt in a Hybrid World
- WorkingSm@rt using MS Teams
- WorkingSm@rt using OneNote
- WorkingSm@rt in Meetings
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Detailed Synopsis
Priority Management's WorkingSm@rt using Microsoft Outlook Workshop has been developed to empower you to take control of your work. Priority Management teaches you how to change behaviours and optimize the use of technology to take control of your time, productivity, collaboration and work results.
Unit 1: Being Productive
This unit will introduce you to the challenges arising from the modern workplace expectations placed upon knowledge workers. You will also learn about the fundamental principles of productivity. With that context in mind, you will be in a better position to focus on the tasks with the greatest return on your investment of time.
Unit 2: Setting Yourself Up to Work Sm@rt
You will gain a deeper understanding of what’s available in the Outlook “toolbox” and set up the main components to enable you to work smart with enhanced focus. Learn how to increase your productivity and eliminate unhelpful habits.
Unit 3: Manage Your Workload with Tasks
You will learn how to capture and plan the execution of your flexible pieces of work. You will also learn how Outlook can help you keep track of work you have asked others to do.
Unit 4: Managing Your Emails Effectively
We will show you how to better manage your email. You will learn how to extract the work from your Inbox and quickly file emails you need to retain. You will discover that you can work from a near empty Inbox.
Unit 5: Managing Your Time Commitments
You will learn the importance of the Outlook Calendar and how to avoid becoming a victim of the “planning fallacy”. You will become a more
proficient manager of your time and a better daily planner.
Unit 6: Managing Your Communications
You will learn how to plan, capture and follow up on time, every time.
Unit 7: Planning For Results
You will discover how the planning cycle will help you become more strategic in your daily choices.