Productivity Solutions | FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities™ Microsoft® Outlook® Edition

Productivity Solutions

FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities™ Microsoft® Outlook® Edition

Core competencies for Focus: Achieving Your Highest Priorities Microsoft Outlook Edition include:

Core Competencies	Participants Will Learn to:
The Time Matrix	The difference between important and urgent How to identify what is most important
My Planning System	The Core Four—hallmarks of an effective system
Microsoft Outlook for Planning and Prioritizing	How to convert e-mail to tasks, calendar, or contacts Archiving data Turning tasks into a project-management center Finding information Assigning tasks Scheduling meetings Setting rules/alerts to automate processing Scheduling projects Using tools that link to Outlook, such as PDAs Many other planning functions
The Productivity Pyramid	Building a foundation of effectiveness
Weekly and Daily Planning	Translating goals into tasks Assigning priorities Eliminating low-priority activities Integrating paper and electronic planning tools Managing information effectively Daily and weekly planning in Microsoft Outlook