Description

Is your e-mail a “beast”? Does it take up too much time, cause distraction, and actually get in the way of productivity vs. helping with productivity? Without a system for “controlling the beast”, professionals spend much of their work (and personal) time spinning wheels and feeling highly unsatisfied. If you would like to get control of your e-mail “beast”, you should attend this program led by Randy Dean, MBA, author of the Amazon bestseller, Taming the Email Beast.

Randy shares strategies for effective e-mail management, organization, and prioritization (featuring live and newly updated demos in popular programs like Outlook and Gmail) that have helped thousands of business professionals regain control and sanity with their e-mail activities (one university client even found that the average attendee saved more than 2 hours per week by taking this program!) 

Enhance your efficiency today and walk away with immediately usable tips and techniques! At the end of this program, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the nature of e-mail & information overload in today's workplace

• Have a strategy for “splitting” work, personal, and junk/spam e-mails for greater efficiency

• Use a very simple “rule” for managing all incoming e-mail that allows for both greater speed and prioritization of those messages and embedded tasks

• Learn how to convert e-mails quickly into tasks, contacts, and calendar items ? Use embedded functions inside of your e-mail that allow you to “automate” certain common activities/messages

• Greatly reduce distraction by setting up special notifiers and adjusting internal settings in both Outlook & Gmail

• Build a personal file “infrastructure” that can assist in achieving greater organization and possibly even “e-mail ZERO”!

• Demos now include not only the “Old” Outlook (local client version), but also the “New” & Web Outlook versions, as well as Gmail for mixed audiences

Part two:

In this popular program on “getting the most from your Outlook” for MS Outlook Users, Randy Dean, author of the former Amazon e-mail bestseller, Taming the E-mail Beast, shows how to expand your capabilities with the market-leading Microsoft Outlook e-mail and professional organization software. Randy delves into Outlook-specific strategies for many of the most common areas of productivity loss (and possible gain!) afflicting many busy professionals today: managing multiple projects & tasks; maintaining “traction” when dealing with tasks and interruptions; clearing the clutter in your mind for better focus; keeping staff on task; tracking “who owes you what” and getting that information on time; and better managing your calendar and contacts for better time and relationship management. His goal is to help stressed out performers learn several new and immediately useful Outlook strategies for finding a few minutes on e-mails, tasks, activities, and actions you are already doing, leading to at least an extra hour of productivity every day. Get more from all five of the key Outlook functions: Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, E-mail, and Notes; for greater productivity, sanity, efficiency, and work-life balance.

Learning points:

• A basic understanding of key “bigger picture” time management principles – including your current active projects and life roles – and how they can be integrated into your MS Outlook software

• Fully integrating your MS Outlook software into your time, project, people, and e-mail/info management systems, and getting the most usability and functionality out of your software, including:

• Setting up your “Tasks” function for prioritized project/client action

• Strategically managing your Calendar to increase personal and professional effectiveness

• Using creative tracking methods to make interpersonal communications more efficient and effective

• Integrating your Outlook software into your broader office/personal organization system

• Utilizing the “Notes” function (and the related OneNote app) to help “clear your mind” by creating several highly useful lists for organizing the random clutter in your mind

• How to set up Outlook “reminders” in e-mails, tasks, and calendar items that prompt you to take appropriate task actions at the right times

• Enhancing the information saved in your “Contacts” list for better relationships & communication • Using “start of day”, “during the day”, weekly, and annual rituals to get your projects and people up front through more effective use of your calendar and task list, and put e-mail in its “proper place”

Meeting Logistics

• Date & Time:

  Tuesday, December 10 (9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)

• Location:

  Virtual

Cost

• Member and Non-Member Fee: $40

Need help?

Association staff is ready to address any and all questions regarding this training event.

Contact mwassociation@michiganworks.org. Association staff is available Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm (excluding holidays) and typically responds to inquiries within two (2) business days.

Upon registration, complete training event details will follow via email.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations must be submitted in writing up to seven (7) business days prior to the training to receive a full refund. Cancellations received less than seven (7) business days prior to the training will be invoiced, and payments will not be refunded. No shows will be billed. Substitutions are welcomed.