Use Microsoft Outlook to Its Fullest Extent: Tips, Techniques and Best Practices. Its Money in Your Pocket

OVERVIEW

Microsoft Outlook is a powerful productivity tool and if you are using it only for email and for keeping track of meetings and appointments, about 80-85% of the power of Outlook is unused. You paid a great deal for the privilege of using Microsoft Outlook – why not wring every dollar you can out of it? 

Using the tips and techniques and Outlook best practices taught in this webinar will enable you to stop spinning your wheels in unproductive activities. You will be able to leave the office on time with a calm feeling that assignments are under control. 

Sounds too good to be true? Not when you implement the strategies taught in this webinar and let the technology of Microsoft Outlook do the heavy lifting of your workload. 

The more of the routine and boring you can hand over to Microsoft Outlook the more you will have time to think, concentrate, and focus on assignments. 

Luckily, this webinar shows you the clicks and drags that help you with the routine and the steps to the planning and execution of goals and objectives. With this instruction, you will be more productive. You will win the to-do list battle.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND

Did an IT worker install Microsoft Outlook on your computer and give you a short tutorial on booting up the program, setting up your email and adding your company signature? Did he leave your office marking his work complete? 

He left you to explore with the trial and error method the many features Outlook and the tremendous productivity benefits of those features. 

Don’t throw any more money down the drain discovering productivity features of Outlook by accident. Attend this webinar and get an in-depth tutorial on how to save time with Outlook. It’s money in your pocket.

AREAS COVERED

This webinar takes an integrated approach to the Outlook folders and teaches you how to:

• Learn Outlook email management best practices andturn urgent requests in emails into tasks or calendar items
• Estimate the time tasks take and complete work in the identified time frame
• Use the tasks folder to organize complex work requests
• Use categories to help sort information in all folders, calendar, contacts, tasks, and email

You will be given a tutorial on using the features of Microsoft Outlook to: 

• Prioritize tasks
• Create new folders for complex tasks related to specific projects 
• Ensure assignments do not slip through the cracks
• Use a variety of views in the Tasks folder
• Differentiate between the To-Do Bar, the To-Do Lists and Tasks
• Use the Outlook Calendar to pace your work
• Use Outlook Today to provide a workload overview  
• Pace daily productivity
• Keep on top of all delegated initiatives
• Close out your day
• Leave work on time knowing you are ready for tomorrow’s work

With this Use Microsoft Outlook to the Fullest Extent-It’s Money In Your Pocket instruction, you can be assured nothing slips through the cracks and you will never miss a deadline, giving you professional integrity.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Time is money. Wasting time is like taking dollar bills and throwing them the drain. Using Microsoft Outlook to its fullest extent will make you more productive. It’s like putting money directly into your pocket.

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Any person with Microsoft Outlook installed on their computer will benefit from this instruction. 

There are special benefits for managers. Titles include: 

• Administrative personnel
• Team leaders
• Team members
• Project managers
• Engineers
• Managers at all levels of the company
• Executives
• Sales professionals
• Sales managers
• Customer service personnel

SPEAKER

Years of Experience: 33+ years

Areas of Expertise: Time Management and Microsoft Outlook

Karla Brandau is a leading authority on personal and team productivity in the workplace. She specializes in combining the power of time management with technology, especially using Microsoft Outlook as a tool to help individuals “get it all done” in less time. 

She is the CEO of Workplace Power Institute and she has educated managers with her proven time management and Microsoft Outlook productivity systems in companies such as Motorola, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Panasonic, and BYD America. 

Her time management with Microsoft Outlook workbook, “Have More Day at the End of Your Day”, is a valuable guide for anyone wanting to know how to use the power of technology to leave work on time. She has also written 101 Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals and Email Survival Skills.

As she speaks for top corporations and associations worldwide, people use “high-content,” “high-energy” and “highly professional” to describe this experienced industry veteran.