Catapult Your Career Using Microsoft Outlook
Learn to use Outlook's Tasks, Calendar, To-Do Bar and categories with goal-setting and time management principles to plan work, hit deadlines and stay organized.
Speaker
Karla Brandau
Productivity trainer and author · Workplace Power Institute · Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
Overview
Organization and punctuality rank among the soft skills employers value most. This 60-minute Microsoft Outlook time management training combines planning and task-processing principles with Outlook so it works like a personal assistant.
You'll learn the Quick Access Toolbar and Outlook Today, the differences between the To-Do List, Tasks folder and To-Do Bar, and how to organize complex projects in Tasks with individual folders, manageable steps and midpoints.
The session shows how to use Calendar and Tasks together to track deadlines, manage daily workflow, sort email assignments into Tasks or Calendar, apply categories across folders and send status reports to your manager. It also covers goal setting, working in the zone and ending each workday on time.
Why attend: Planning workflow and organizing tasks lead to on-time delivery, which signals competence and supports promotion. This session gives you a time management checklist and shows how Outlook can help you keep nothing from slipping. It suits any employee who wants to stand out, including managers at all levels, IT, project, sales and marketing staff, administrative assistants, HR, office managers and customer service.
What’s covered
- Goal-setting principles and how to build them into Outlook
- The Quick Access Toolbar and Outlook Today
- To-Do List vs Tasks folder vs To-Do Bar
- Organizing complex assignments and projects in the Tasks folder
- Creating individual folders for assignments and projects
- Breaking long-term projects into steps and midpoints
- Using Calendar and Tasks together to track deadlines and check-ins
- Managing daily workflow with the Calendar
- Using categories across folders, calendar, contacts, tasks and email
- Sending project status reports to your manager
- Sorting email assignments into Tasks or the Calendar
- Working in the zone, re-energizing and closing the door on work each day
Who should attend
What you get
About the speaker
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 (www.workplacepowerinstitute.com) and 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. Over 85% of the organizations who hire Karla, invite her back for repeat engagements.She has a degree in education and is a Certified Speaking Professional, an earned designation given by National Speakers Association. Karla's 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."The Gift: Discretionary Effort" is her forthcoming book. It teaches leaders how to manager for greater discretionary effort for employees. She is also the author of "Wake Up The Winner Inside" and "101 Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals." She writes a monthly informational newsletter, maintains a blog (www.FromtheDeskofKarlaBrandau.com), and has authored many articles for digital information sites and magazine.As she speaks for top corporations and associations worldwide, people use "high-content," "high-energy" and "highly professional" to describe this experienced industry veteran.
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