Time TECH Course

Technology Based Time Management – MS Outlook

FMI Course number

TM04

Duration

1 day

Overview of Course

In today’s competitive and technology driven work environment it is essential that you optimise your time use. Increasingly the focus in work is on increasing performance levels. This often means a demand to achieve more in less time.

This course helps you gain increased control of your time use, focus on important objectives and work smarter to achieve more effective results. This program helps you use MS Outlook to organise and optimise time use. Based on best practices that work well this course gives you strategies, plans, hints and tips that you can immediately apply to improve your time management. It recognises that different people have different styles of time management that are effective for them and their particular type of work and lets you customise your time management approach to best suit yourself, your organisation, your technology and your type of work.

You should aim for a 10% gain in productive time use within the first week of application of the principles learned. Importantly you will plan actions to help you sustain improved time use.

Learning Outcomes

• Use MS Outlook effectively for time management
• Plan personal work goals
• Organise own work priorities and schedules
• Identify and reduce time wastage and stress caused by poor time management
• Leverage time use and apply the 80/20 rule and the 95/5 rule
• Plan an appropriate balance of work and life
• Set up an action plan for improved time management

Key Content

• The value of time management
• MS Outlook for time management
• Analysing your time usage
• Setting work goals
• Setting work priorities
• Leveraging time use and applying the 80/20 rule and the 95/5 rule
• Working effectively
• Managing your time: strategies and tools
• Using technology
• Manager time wasters and interruptions
• Managing time in meetings
• When and how to delegate
• Balancing work and life
• Your action plan for improved time management and developing professional competence

Who this course is useful for

All people who would benefit from an increased ability organise their time as part of their role at work.

Resources for this Course

A Learning Guide is provided for this course. It contains notes and can be used for participant’s own notes.

Dates and locations

This program is offered in-house only. Schedule by agreement. Held at client location or in computer based training rooms.

Fees

Full quotation given once specifications are agreed.

Corporate Versions of this Course

This course can be tailored for corporate requirements as an in-house course.

Booking & further information

To book phone +612 9660 0199

Email fmi to find out how we can help you:

fmi@frontlinemanagementinstitute.com.au

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