
Become Great with Time Management Skills and Microsoft Outlook Tools
Become Great with Time Management Skills and Microsoft Outlook Tools
Course Length:
Learning Objectives
At the end of this workshop, you will:
- Identify the right priorities and how to accomplish them
- Build the behaviours to better manage your time
- Learn what and how to delegate effectively
- Develop goals that are motivating, not ‘to-do’s
- Understand how to deal with distractions and interruptions
- Use Microsoft Outlook to manage emails
- Stay organized by optimizing your Outlook folders and calendar
- Manage important tasks with Microsoft Outlook
Target Student
This series is for team members and leaders who want to improve their professional and personal time management skills and be more effective with Microsoft Outlook.
Course Outline
This is an interactive course. Participants will be encouraged to engage and practice.
Section 1: Your Time Management Overview
Dealing with current obstacles
Managing your time and stress
How you can improve time management by 10%
Section 2: Setting Goals
Setting relevant and timely goals
Finding clarity of goals for yourself and your organization
Making goal setting easy
Section 3: Prioritizing
Ranking priorities
Separating priorities from your to do list
Strategies to make priorities, priorities!
Section 4: The Best Ways to Delegate
Understand when to delegate
How best to delegate
To whom to delegate
Section 5: Communication Skills
Encouraging communication
Clarifying assumptions
Building collaboration
Section 6: Setting Up Your Outlook Environment
Customizing your Outlook view
Modifying your Outlook settings to optimize your time management
Section 7: Using Email Templates, Quick Parts & Signatures to Save Time
Creating email templates for frequently sent messages
Creating and managing Quick Parts for frequently used text
Creating and managing email signatures
Section 8: Working with Mail Rules and Quick Steps
Understanding the importance of using Mail Rules and Quick Steps
Setting up Mail Rules for automatic email management
Creating and customizing Quick Steps for repetitive tasks
Using Quick Steps to apply “The Four D’s” to your daily emails (Do, Delegate, Defer, Delete)
Applying Conditional Formatting rules
Section 9: Working with Search Folders and Categories to Stay Organized
Understanding how Search Folders can help you stay organized and on top of your work
Creating and customizing Search Folders for quick access to important emails and tasks
Creating and customizing categories in Outlook
Prioritizing emails and tasks using categories and flags
Section 10: Managing Tasks and To-Do’s
Understanding the Task feature in Outlook
Creating and managing tasks
Using the Follow-Up feature to manage important tasks
Section 11: Calendar Tips
Quick tips for viewing and organizing your Outlook calendar

Become Great with Time Management Skills and Microsoft Outlook Tools
Upcoming Classes
All Public classes are held onlinewith a live instructor
Dates | Price | Qty |
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October 25, 2023 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM ET | $695.00 Online | |
February 16, 2024 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM ET | $695.00 Online |
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