Working Smart with Microsoft Outlook
with Director of Priority Management South Africa, Karen Hardman.
TAKE CONTROL of your workload and competing priorities.
Receive practical hands-on skills instruction to help you absorb proven techniques for a total time-management solution.
Integrate communications, tasks, activities, planning and apply the WorkingSm@rt® method using Microsoft Outlook.
This course will help you:
- Create a consistent focus on priorities
- Gain control of your inbox and email
- Improve your communications
- Manage your time, tasks, and activities
- Use Outlook with a ‘business planning’ approach
Who Should Attend:
Workgroups and teams including managers, technical and sales professionals, supervisors, administrators and project leaders who currently use MS Outlook, and are not optimizing this powerful software.
Detailed Synopsis:
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 on 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 – Managing 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 Email 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.
Register
13 September 2023 (09h00-15h00)via Teams
COST: R3 400 per person
MORE ABOUT KAREN:
Karen began her career in secretarial and support positions in the Pharmaceutical and Timber Export industries.
In 1997 Karen began her first role in a Learning and Development. Her first position was Course Co-ordination for Hyundai Motor Corporation before moving into a facilitation role.
Following Hyundai Motor Corporation Karen has held various positions within Human Resources Consulting firms where she gained her experience in Transformation, Diversity Management, Psychometric Assessments, Executive Pay, Labour Relations Education and much more. In 2013 Karen Hardman joined Priority Management South Africa and is now one of the Directors and is responsible for Sales and Facilitation functions, which contribute to the continued growth of Priority Management South Africa.
Priority Management has been providing productivity and workload management solutions for over 35 years and are represented in 55 global locations. To date Priority Management has assisted 2.2 million people to find a better way to work and stay in control of their days.
PLEASE NOTE: We will be in touch with you to arrange payment and send you the relevant info for this webinar.
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