Seminar: Active time management and self-management with Microsoft Outlook
Up to 40% more effectivity by using eight simple principles.
Modern working life is subject to increasing complexity as well as an expectation of permanent availability. In this seminar, participants learn the basic principles of effective time management. They identify psychological factors affecting their use of time and learn methods to develop their own personal time management system based on Microsoft Outlook.
Seminar objectives: Participants analyse their work situation and processes, and they work to develop or learn solutions and techniques that enable them to plan their time effectively and cope confidently with stressful situations. They learn how to make efficient use of the time planning tool Microsoft Outlook.
Duration: 1 day, e.g. 9 am to 4 pm
Preparation
- Before starting the course, participants fill out a password-protected expectations‘ questionnaire. I compile the specific seminar content and structure based on the results of the questionnaire.
- Before the course starts, participants receive two 360-degree potential analysis questionnaires and fill these out by way of preparation. The time required for this is approx. 15–25 minutes.
Content
- Core strategies of time management: Levels of change, block planning, performance curve, ABC analysis, Pareto principle, “focus time”
- Working effectively and efficiently – creating concentration: handling distractions and disruptions, avoiding organisational errors and saw blade effect
- Personal mindsets and how they affect your own prioritisation: How to ensure long-lasting effects, strategies for saying “No”
- Personal status quo analysis: What can you improve individually? What is currently stopping you doing so?
- Prioritisation: Using individual prioritisation aids, creating a value-based task list
- Efficient task organization (“hold files”) using Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft OneNote
- Optimum combination of traditional media and electronic organisational aids
- Developing concrete structures and solutions for your working environment, individual implementation plan
Handbook, quick reference cards and support
- Detailed seminar handbook and handouts with exercises
- A5 quick reference card as a brief summary
- Supplementary material and photographic minutes by email
- Support after the seminar: simply by email or using the Knowledge Blog – participants are welcome to ask questions and request tips after the seminar
Your communications skills trainer:
Uwe Freund: Communication trainer, coach, text optimiser. Uwe Freund has been supporting companies since 1989 as a communication trainer, speaker, coach and consultant for business writing skills and complaint management by letter, email, chat and social media as well as time management, telephone dialogue and presentation.
He advises companies in German-speaking countries on the redesign of written and verbal communication as well as the concrete implementation through text optimisation of templates, building blocks and templates. His industry expertise focuses on financial services, insurance, law firms and law firms, automotive, IT and software, clothing/fashion. Uwe Freund lives in Munich.
- Studies: Politics, German Studies and Psychology in Frankfurt am Main and Munich - Degree: M. A. (Magister/Master)
- Qualifications: Certified coach based on transactional analysis; further training: Gestalt, NLP, TCI, conflict management, group dynamics, physiology and sports training methodology, energetic psychology (MPC), INSIGHTS MDI (accredited counsellor), Lumina Spark (accredited counsellor)
- Seminar languages: German, English
- Seminar topics: Written communication and business writing such as letters and emails, live chat, professional formulation and copywriting, telephone dialogue, customer service and complaint management, time management and productivity, pyramid style presentations, presentation, facilitation
- Memberships: BJV Bayerischer Journalistenverband / German Journalists' Association, DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. / German Standardisation Organisation (member of the working committee "Text and information processing for office applications")