Do you often feel as if your Outlook is taking more time out of your workday than it should? You can make Outlook work for you instead of against you by making a few small changes.
Do you also make these 5 time wasting mistakes in Outlook?
Mistake 1: You receive an e-mail and want to send your friend just one paragraph of the mail. You highlight the text, copy it, create a new message and paste it into the new message. Or you forward the email and then delete everything you do not want to send.
Mistake 2: To create a new appointment you double-click the beginning time in your Calendar, type in the details and select the start and end times from the drop-down list and then click “Save and Close”.
Mistake 3: When you switch on Outlook, the first screen you see is your Inbox. You get seduced into doing your email for the next 30 minutes and forget an important meeting.
Mistake 4: You are working in your Calendar and want to create and send a new email. You click on “Mail” en then “New Email”.
Mistake 5: You read a new e-mail and then leave it in the Inbox “for now” and change it to “Mark as unread” to remind you that something still needs to be done about it.
If you also make these 5 mistakes, it is an indication that you could be wasting as much as 3 weeks every year because you are using Outlook inefficiently.
Most people use Outlook only for email and meeting management – and they never get to use it as a productivity tool that can save them up to 40 minutes every single day. They dabble with Contacts and Tasks, but skip Notes, Journal, and Discussion Notes.
To learn how to make the most of your day with the help of Outlook, enrol for our new 5 hour Outlook Productivity workshop. You will also get a time proven system for managing your everyday workflow more efficiently.
For more information on this workshop, contact email itkursus@sun.ac.za, read more on the wiki or contact the IT Service Desk at 808 4367.
Tags: Outlook
Petro, Sou dit nie moontlik wees dat afgetredenes wat nie tans werksaam is by die US wel teen betaling sou kon aansluit nie, bv op kort kennisgewing as die kursus nie vol is nie?
Hi
Stefaans en Carien, die inhoude van die kursusse sal spoedig op Sun-e-HR beskikbaar wees.
Annelene, sal jy vir my ‘n aanduiding kan gee van klasvrye dae / datums asseblief?
Jeanette, as jy nog werksaam is by SU as personeellid, sal jy kan aanlyn inskryf vir die kursusse.
Yolanda, daar is geen kostes verbonde aan die kursusse as jy ‘n SU personeellid is nie.
Groete
Petro
Is daar enige kostes hieraan verbonde,
en hoe weet jy watter “level” om by te woon.
Wat si die kans dat ek as afgetrede personeellid die Outlookkursus (of ander IT-opleidingskursusse) kan bywoon?
Wat is die moontlikheid dat van hierdie kursusse in klasvrye tyd herhaal kan word ter wille van mense wat heeldag klasse het, maar ook graag wil leer hoe om meer uit hulle sagteware te haal?
Hi Carien,
ek sal dit gou vir jou opspoor en aanstuur!
Ek probeer in skryf vir die kursus, maar daar is geen inligting oor Outlook 2012 nie. Moet ek dit gebruik wat daar is of gaan dit nog gepubliseer word op die webblad? Ek wil ook graag, soos bogenoemde weet wat die verskil is tussen die “intermediate & Advanced Outlook kursus.
Groete
Carien
Hallo Stefanus,
ek stuur jou vraag aan vir Petro Uys, ons opleidingguru. Sy sal so gou moontlik vir jou laat weet.
groete,
Sonja
Hi
Wat is die verskil tussen die Intermediate & Advanced Outlook kuarus.
Ek moet bepaal vir watter een ek moet inskryf?
Dankie
Stefaans
Hi Sune,
al die datums is op ons wiki by https://stbsp01.stb.sun.ac.za/innov/it/it-help/Wiki%20Pages/Courses%20available.aspx. Jy kan ook self registreer via die personeelportaal.
vriendelike groete,
Sonja
Ek stel belang in die outlook kursus. laat weet ab datum, tyd en venue asook of sodanige kursusse op Tygerberg kampus aangebied gaan word.
Dankie