Productivity Training for Outlook™ (1 day on site)

- Give your team the tools they need to work more productively

Microsoft Outlook™ is a powerful time and work management aid, yet many people use it as little more than a place to send and receive email. Productivity Training for Outlook™ will enhance your Team’s performance by helping them to use Outlook™ to plan their work and focus on the things that matter most.

Agenda

• Information Overload – Lets understand the problem!
• Managing Your Time
  • Goals and Priorities - what is important to me and my work
• Outlook basics – recap the fundamentals
• Lets get organised part 1 – A framework for planning and tracking your activities
  • Where do all the tasks come from?
  • Strategic Goals, Tactical Plans, Next Actions
  • Tasks, emails, appointments and categories
• The Best Practices of Task and E-Mail Management
  • Decision Time - how do I deal with this?
• Lets get organised part 2 – Managing Your In-box
  • Slow the flow - Dealing with Unwanted Email
  • Sending Email – learning from worst practice
  • Reducing Junk Mail
  • Dealing with persistent offenders
• Outlook™ calendar
  • Efficient Appointments & Meetings - Outlook™ explained
  • Scheduling your work
• Contact Cards
  • A database for your business relationships
  • Using Mail Merge for more efficient communications
• Teamwork
  • Using Tasks for collaboration and delegation
  • Sharing information - permissions, delegation and public folders
• Pulling it all together

This is not just a ‘how to’ course showing you which buttons to press. It looks at real business scenarios and gives teams and managers proven techniques to function more efficiently. Over the day it builds a framework in the students personal Outlook™ that will give them real benefits as soon as they get back to their desk.
 

Last Updated 13/04/2007

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