Optimizing Your Microsoft Outlook

Optimizing Your Microsoft Outlook

Time, Project, People, Task, Idea and (Of Course) E-mail Management Using Microsoft Outlook

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In this popular program on “getting the most from your Outlook” as well as “Taming Your E-mail Beast” for MS Outlook Users, Randy Dean, author of the recent 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. Randy will also share several tips and strategies for better managing, organizing and prioritizing your e-mail activities, including converting e-mails into tasks, calendar items, and contacts automatically, saving time by sending “auto-emails”, cutting down on CC's, SPAM, and junk, and using “rules” to automate many of your e-mail processes. 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 - A discussion on the critical survival skill of “effective prioritization”, and how Outlook can help. - 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 methods to make interpersonal communications more efficient and effective  Integrating your Outlook software into your broader office/personal organization system - Managing your “e-mail & info overload” – emails, voice mail, "snail" mail, and all those articles to read! — including several specific and highly useful strategies for Outlook e-mail management - 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 - Use embedded functions inside of your e-mail that allow you to “automate” certain common activities/messages (including an advanced use of the Signature tool, creating Rules, and “Quick Steps”) - Better manage both sent and received CC's, Forwards, and Replies, to reduce confusion and increase communication capabilities. - Building an intelligent and structured Outlook folder system for efficient filing and management - Utilizing the “Notes” function 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”

Randy Dean -- The E-mail Sanity Expert! — Motivational Speaker

Randy Dean -- The E-mail Sanity Expert!

I help people manage their time, e-mail, projects, & people!

I'm best known for my programs on Taming the E-mail Beast, Finding an Extra Hour Every Day, Optimizing Your MS Outlook, Time Management Using Gmail/Google, and Smart Phone Success & Terrific Tablets. I get people productive using popular tools!

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