Does Outlook and email sometimes feel like the bane of your existence? Does it feel like you are bombarded with so many emails you can never keep up? Does your Outlook inbox feel like its overflowing and hard to find the important items you need?
In this session we will look at how to get a handle on email so it doesn’t control you. We will learn how to get to zero emails in your inbox at the end of each day and how to stay organized to find the things you need. You will learn the Outlook tools you can use to help you spend less time with your emails, and free up more time for other things in your day.
This session will combine Time Management and Outlook tools to help you win the battle over emails.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
Feeling overwhelmed by email? Need to learn how to get a better handle on it so that you control it, and it doesn’t control you. If you have hundreds of emails in your Inbox right now, this course will teach you how to get down to zero each day, and how to reduce your stress by better managing the emails that come in. This class will help you make sure nothing falls through the cracks in your Outlook emails.
AREA COVERED
- Applying the Time Management Chunking technique to emails
- How to get to zero emails in your Inbox each day and why it's important
- The 6 options for handling email
- Email organizational tools
- Turning emails into tasks
- Using search folders
- Creating rules
- Folder organization ideas
- Desktop Alerts
- Instant searching options
- Printing time saver
- Quick Steps
- Email Etiquette
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- The best ways to manage emails
- Time Management techniques that can help save you time with your emails
- How to clean out your inbox more efficiently each day
- Additional Outlook tips and shortcuts
- Automating email functions
- Customizing how emails hit your inbox
- Finding more efficient ways to store and organize emails
WHO WILL BENEFIT?
- Any business professional that uses Microsoft Office products and Outlook
Feeling overwhelmed by email? Need to learn how to get a better handle on it so that you control it, and it doesn’t control you. If you have hundreds of emails in your Inbox right now, this course will teach you how to get down to zero each day, and how to reduce your stress by better managing the emails that come in. This class will help you make sure nothing falls through the cracks in your Outlook emails.
- Applying the Time Management Chunking technique to emails
- How to get to zero emails in your Inbox each day and why it's important
- The 6 options for handling email
- Email organizational tools
- Turning emails into tasks
- Using search folders
- Creating rules
- Folder organization ideas
- Desktop Alerts
- Instant searching options
- Printing time saver
- Quick Steps
- Email Etiquette
- The best ways to manage emails
- Time Management techniques that can help save you time with your emails
- How to clean out your inbox more efficiently each day
- Additional Outlook tips and shortcuts
- Automating email functions
- Customizing how emails hit your inbox
- Finding more efficient ways to store and organize emails
- Any business professional that uses Microsoft Office products and Outlook
Speaker Profile
Jenny Douras
Jenny Douras is President at AdvantEdge Training & Consulting. She has over 25 years of experience in management, employee development, operations, instructional design, and training. Jenny has managed teams of up to 300 people across multiple states and countries, working with several Fortune 500 clients. From this experience, she developed her Remote Employee Management Class. She also sat on the board of directors for the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development for three years and is an active member of the Colorado training community.
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