Get Organized with Outlook

People use many different methods to organize their to-do lists, contacts and diaries. This can lead to multiple hand-written lists, post-its to remind you of different tasks, a full email in-box (or paper in-tray!) and no clear picture of what to do or who to call next. This in turn leads to confusion, stress and missed opportunities.

This half-day course provides a personalized process for you to organize your work and your life, while providing you with the technical details of how to use a very flexible and widely available tool: Microsoft Outlook.

Benefits

Clear your email inbox
Stop re-reading the same emails
Be reminded of key contacts to follow-up with
Organize your tasks, projects, calendar and contacts
Keep all of your important information in one place
Save time by eliminating the need to write a new to-do list daily

What you will learn

An overall method to get organized and stay organized
How to organize your work so you can quickly see what your projects and priorities are
Create tasks or appointments from emails in seconds
How to clean up your inbox
Configure Outlook to reduce distraction from incoming emails
Shortcuts to entering contact information
Key details for using each feature: Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes

Bonus tips

How to upload your contacts to LinkedIn
How to sync your Calendar, Tasks and Contacts to your smartphone
How to stay organized when you don’t have a smartphone and don’t want one!

Requirements

This course requires that participants bring a laptop with Outlook 2003 or 2007 installed. It is possible to attend without a laptop, however the delegates will be encouraged to practice the techniques throughout the course.