Productivity Workshops

Manage your inbox with a smarter outlook.

Challenge:

With email, appointments and calendars in your face every day, the urgencies of the moment border on the hypnotic. Technologies once envisioned to liberate can paralyze us in an avalanche of data and clutter. Instead of tackling what’s truly important, employees become distracted, robotic, and pressured to react to situations perceived as urgent. We devote our days to stomping out fires and get hooked on a false sense of heroism, accomplishing mundane urgencies at the expense of the wildly important.

Solution:

When people’s daily activities align with their highest priorities, they have a credible claim to better performance, higher achievement, and peace of mind. The workshopFOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities Microsoft® Outlook® Edition teaches participants to apply the best principles from FranklinCovey’s world-famous productivity training while using Microsoft® Outlook® as their scheduling tool. They discover how to stop “living in their inbox” and start prioritizing tasks, messages, and appointments to achieve what is most important to the organization and themselves.

About the Course:

This Microsoft Outlook training course helps employees learn to stay focused every day with a reliable planning system using Microsoft Outlook. They discover how to gain control of competing demands on their time from email, voice mail, meetings, and interruptions, plus they master a proven goal-setting process to become more motivated and productive.

You Will Learn To:

• Identify what is most important.
• Convert e-mail to tasks, calendar, or contacts.
• Archive data.
• Turn tasks into a project-management center.
• Assign tasks.
• Schedule meetings.
• Set rules/alerts to automate processing.
• Schedule projects. 
• Build a foundation of effectiveness.
• Translate goals into tasks.
• Assign priorities.
• Eliminate low-priority activities.
• Integrate paper and electronic planning tools.
• Manage information effectively.
• Plan daily and weekly Microsoft Outlook.

What You Receive:

• The Focus Assessment — a pre- and post-workshop evaluation — to personalize workshop content and measure productivity improvement
• Participant Guidebook – This manual is filled with examples and exercises to help you continue learning long after the workshop.
• The Microsoft Outlook Course Rescue Guide – This guide will help you start to implement the workshop's principles immediately.

Length of Training:

Live – Online: 

Three 90-minute webinar workshop sessions:

• Session A: 11:00 am–12:30 pm ET
• 1-Hour Break
• Session B: 1:30 pm–3:00 pm ET
• 1-Hour Break
• Session C: 4:00 pm –5:30 pm ET

   

Continuing Education Credits:

6 Contact Hours
.6 CEU
7 CPE

Learn more about continuing education credits

Now all your employees can experience the world-renowned benefits of FranklinCovey training, no matter where they live and work around the globe.  Our high-quality webinar workshops put the high-quality instruction of FranklinCovey in-person training into convenient online workshops. Engaging and interactive, this workshop offers compelling content and award-winning videos and is now available live online as three 90–minute sessions.

Workshop Tuition

Reduce the amount of time you are in reactive mode and increase the amount of time you spend on proactive priorities. 
Messaging

Learn to use Outlook to automatically filter and respond to messages is key.

Turn messages into what they are—tasks, calendar entries, contacts, or notes.

Using the “planning functions” of Outlook

Keep “master lists” of projects, tasks, and key areas. When shown how, most users quickly adopt a 5–10 minute daily-planning approach to Outlook. Protecting your time Using Microsoft Outlook protects time for priorities by blocking out time, protected from meetings, for work on projects and other priorities. Making Outlook portable Learn how to print out calendar information or flow Outlook data to mobile devices.