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

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

SMS Covey TC To 56677

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 workshop FOCUS: 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 Microsoft Outlook 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.

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