Take control of your workload and competing priorities
- Do you often feel overwhelmed and out of control at work?
- Are you constantly buried under an avalanche of emails, with many of them remaining unread?
- Do you struggle with a never-ending to-do list that keeps growing?
- Are you missing important deadlines because you’re unable to focus on key tasks?
- Do you have difficulty prioritising your tasks, leading to inefficiency and stress?
- Are constant interruptions hampering your productivity and focus?
Our WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook course may save your day!
AT A GLANCE
Audience
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
- 1 x 4-hours, instructor-led online session
- Individual follow up coaching
What’s Included
- Comprehensive Learning Guide and Resource Manual
- Subscription to our monthly LearningLink e-newsletter
Prioritising to Work Effectively
Most people are familiar with the basic functions of personal organiser programmes like Outlook. ‘WorkingSm@rt’ training transforms software functions by adding practical processes to work productively and effectively.
WorkingSm@rt using Outlook makes MS Outlook work by showing you how to:
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- 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
What You Will Learn
Behaving as a Team
Assess the current strengths of each team’s essential skills. Learn how team players need to behave to deliver shared goals on time.
Business Processes
Business Processes apply the WorkingSm@rt Best Practices i.e. why and when to use the MS Teams functions.
Guidance on 365 Apps
Guidance is given on which to use to help teams sidestep duplication of work, missed information or continuous distractions.
Advice
Have clear IT Guidelines for MS Teams to avoid unintentional misuse, or even bewilderment.
Detailed Synopsis
Format
- Hands-on Instructor-led Sessions: 1 x 4-hours, instructor-led online session
- Individual follow up coaching
What’s Included
- Comprehensive Learning Guide and Resource Manual: Individual Virtual Learning Guide with training content to refer to, whenever you want.
- Ongoing support: WorkingSm@rt Helpdesk, no matter where you work.
- LearningLink: Our monthly productivity e-newsletter to keep you updated.
Units
- Unit 1 – Being Productive
- Unit 2 – Setting Yourself Up to Work Sm@rt
- Unit 3 – Manage Work Effectively
- Unit 4 – Managing Commitments to Enable a Sense of Achievement
- Unit 5 – Managing Information Effectively
- Unit 6 – Manage Working with Others
Available for Microsoft Outlook, Outlook for Apple Mac, Lotus Notes, Google Apps and iPhone & iPad.
What our graduates say about this course
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
I learned tips and tricks on how to improve my productivity using outlook as a system rather than just an email browser
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
Really effective means of tracking your work and not losing important items through the cracks
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
it will give you a different view on how to manage your calendar/e-mails/tasks to reduce our workload anxiety
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
I love the horizontal approach to tasks rather than vertical. Just the visual difference is relaxing.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
It helps you to be more organised and keep track of all tasks. By doing this you're not using Lists or your head to remember things and then you're not forgetting things and causing stress on yourself.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
Relieves the stress of having to remember things, once you have it in your calendar as a task or time scheduled you won't forget about it.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
Reduce anxiety by providing a structured workflow/system.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
Very effective for time management and prioritization.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
It will help to prioritise tasks that are most important and ensure that workload is managed effectively.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
It is just amazing what you can do to clear your inbox and the inbox of stress building up in my mind.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
I don't wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night any more - I have everything under control in work.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
William does a great job explaining the barriers to productivity which help you understand that efficiency is something that everyone struggles with.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
Empty inbox is in itself so useful to reduce stress levels.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
No longer relying on my 10+ to-do lists floating around my desk.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
The course will teach you how to take control over your tasks and visualize them, giving you better understanding of your availability to take on more tasks or to evaluate when you might get time to complete a task.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
An excellent course to improve time management and prioritizing workload.
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
Helps me to effectively manage my workload by utilizing an organizational structured approach in outlook. No more long to-do lists
WorkingSm@rt with Microsoft Outlook
Being organised and on top of your work - being proactive - and not being blind sided by forgotten tasks will always reduce workload stress
Making Outlook Work
Behaviours
- Prioritising continuously
- Planning realistically
- Allocating time to objectives
- Controlling Inbox
- Organising information
- Managing expectations & interruptions
- Following-up others Tracking conversations
Benefits
- Doing the right work at the right time
- Making best use of your time
- Delivering work on schedule
- Clearing Inbox to focus on actions
- Finding emails quickly
- Controlling work from others
- Others delivering reliably
- Remembering who agreed what
