TO BOOK: Call Lizzy Mafalo on (011) 880-9749 or email Lizzy with your contact details.
The challenge
In today’s business world with fast-changing priorities and demands on your attention and energy, you need a complete system that can seamlessly move between e-mails, appointments, action reminders and reference notes in order to support you to be “ready for anything” at any time during the day!
MS Outlook CAN do all of this for you, and more…
A technology-based solution
In this unique workshop you will learn to
* develop a system with a coherent set of behaviours and tools that function effectively at the level at which work really happens
* incorporate the results of higher-level thinking as well as the smallest of details
* manage multiple tiers of priorities
* maintain control over hundreds of new inputs daily
* save a lot more time and effort than are needed to maintain it
* make it easier to get things done, allowing great flexibility for reassessing priorities in changing situations
Your workshop experience is immediately applicable and practical
You will bring your own “stuff” to the workshop and start implementing the Getting Things Done way of working on the spot. You will deal with what is happening in your life right now. You will get to know and apply the core self-management methodology for dealing effectively with the increased levels of communication, workflow and responsibilities facing today’s professionals.
During the workshop you will have access to Outlook on a dedicated computer. You will start managing your small projects more effectively by using Outlook as your “dashboard”, linking project planning with relevant documents created in MindManager, Word, Excel etc.
To this end you will have mind mapping software to use during the workshop as a brainstorming tool when planning your current projects.
Please bring a memory stick with you to the workshop, and at the end of the day you can take the work that you did during the workshop with you to be merged with your other active Outlook data on your work computer the next day. This creates a seamless transition between the workshop and the implementation at your desk.
You will not only experience the power of Outlook, you will also learn how to deal with the paper in your life much more efficiently.
Workshop outline
During the workshop you will experience and learn…
* how the changing world of work impacts on the way you plan, organise and do your work
* a different take on priorities
* maintaining a complete inventory of outstanding work
* how to process your “extended intray”
* a new way of organising action reminders so you don’t have to remember stuff any longer
* effective use of your calendar
* how front-end decision making eliminates procrastination and reduces stress
* planning projects more effectively, including the use of mind mapping
* how the weekly review helps you to stay in touch with all the things going on in your life
You will also learn the following specifically in Outlook as you apply the above processes:
* how to organise and process e-mails more effectively
* using filters to decrease your processing time
* organising action reminders so you will be reminded of what to do at exactly the right time and/or place
* integrating calendar, tasks, note, inbox and contacts into one seamless information management support system
* using the Tasks function to manage your smaller projects
* delegating actions
* how using keyboard shortcuts improves your efficiency
Workshop Details
Cape Town
DATE: 12 June 2012
VENUE: tbc, Cape Town
TIME: 8:00am for 8:30am until 1:30pm
COST: R2085 excl vat (includes lunch)
Workshop facilitator
Duncan Hattingh’s industrial engineering background makes him well qualified to share the workflow management tips, tricks and techniques based on time-proven principles of working more productively. Prior to joining Gerrit Cloete and Productivity Pit Stop in September 2006, he was a project consultant in supply chain design with Industrial Logistics Systems. He was personally trained and coached by Gerrit Cloete in facilitating this workshop, as well as in doing individual productivity coaching.
Note: This workshop can also be facilitated in-house.
TO BOOK: Call Lizzy Mafalo on (011) 880-9749 or email Lizzy with your contact details.
