This path, composed of three of our most popular courses, is designed to teach you how to efficiently organize your work and manage your time with Outlook and OneNote. You will learn how to: manage your time, priorities and tasks in Outlook; organize communications and emails in Outlook; and organize ideas and notes in OneNote.
Whether you value performance or work-life balance, knowing how to manage your time is a must-learn.
Audience
This course is for anyone, manager or employee, looking for practical methods and strategies to better organize their work.
Prerequisites
Using Outlook and OneNote on Desktop version
Objectives
Organize and structure Outlook for better time management
Acquire knowledge for better time planning
Teaching Method
Lectures - Demonstrations - Guided and individual exercises
Contents
Manage your time, priorities and tasks in Outlook
Understand basic time management concepts
Create a dashboard using the calendar
Work effectively with the Calendar to better manage appointments
Improve daily and weekly planning
Efficiently manage follow-ups in the Task folder (whether related to clients, projects or administrative)
Centralize tasks in order to better prioritize and eliminate the long to-do lists and "sticky notes" that clutter the desktop
Work with emails that generate tasks and follow-ups
Organize your communications and emails
Identify elements that can help or hinder time management
Define when, how and why to use email
Manage loss of time due to email interruptions
Use the To, CC and CCI fields more judiciously
Use folders wisely in Outlook
Conduct effective searches
Create email rules to reduce the number of emails in the inbox and sort them more easily and efficiently
Automate some repetitive actions using quick actions
Create email templates and Quick Parts
Understand the email lifecycle and best practices for following-up and not forgetting anything
Organize your notes and ideas with OneNote
Set-up for a great start
The concept of intuitive note-taking
Manage tags and the tags summary
Manage notebooks, groups, sections, subsections, pages and subpages
Ghislain Parent has more than 30 years of experience in project management in the fields of training, communication, IT and new technologies, including several years as an entrepreneur. Ghislain has worked at AFI Expertise as a professional efficiency trainer and consultant since 2013. He helps people leverage tools such as Office 365, SharePoint, Teams and OneNote, in addition to mobile technologies such as Android and Apple devices.
Charles Mayer
Trainer
As an andragogy's expert with many years of experience in the field of workplace training, Charles is committed to his peers' professionnal development, so that they gain in efficiency, skills and control.
Francis Ferland-Stevenson
Trainer
Francis began as a trainer more than 5 years ago by testing office automation tools designed specifically to met the needs of his colleagues. His calm and his empathy makes him able to adapt his language according to the level of experience of the group. This makes his learnings clear and accessible to anyone. As a trainer, he is therefore attentive to the needs of his students to make sure they meet their objectives and face the challenges.
Yves Pilon
Trainer
Yves Pilon is passionate about technological tools. His knowledge of web and office softwares has made him an expert on all Microsoft Office tools. Yves' excellent pedagogy has earned him praise from our clients on several occasions. He stands out for his spirit of synthesis and active sense of listening to the needs of the participants. The expertise he has accumulated over the years gives him the ability to ensure a productive transfer of knowledge to our clients.
