To Move Up the Ladder of Success
If you think Microsoft Outlook is just an email client, you’re not alone. Unfortunately, too many folks use Outlook as their primary email client without realizing its full, efficiency-enhancing potential. If you have Microsoft Outlook installed on your computer, you have an amazing time-management tool at your fingertips. Here are some tips to unleashing Microsoft Outlook’s full potential.
The bottom line: Familiarity with this application’s myriad useful features is money in your pocket.
Work Smarter, Not Harder
Research shows that most people with Microsoft Outlook on their desktops only use about 15 percent of this popular program’s power, leaving 85 percent unexplored. Outlook is a very rich program with countless ways to increase your productivity and help you get more done in less time – a definite need with the increased workloads of 2017.
Outlook is a powerful productivity tool, but if your team members are using it only for email, you’re letting a major resource go to waste. You paid a great deal for the privilege of using Microsoft Outlook! If you could learn how to harness its power, Microsoft Outlook can be used almost like a programming language: Identify what you want to do in Outlook, and you can find a way to get it done efficiently and collaboratively.
Learning Outlook Keeps Money In Your Pocket – So we ask again – Are you really Unleashing Microsoft Outlook’s Full Potential?
Consider the following:
- Do you customize Outlook’s calendar to boost your productivity?
- Do you use Outlook to manage both your home and work activities to maintain that proverbial perfect work/life balance?
- Do you archive your emails and maintain an uncluttered inbox?
- Do you have a custom signature that establishes your identity?
- Do you use Outlook to manage your team’s projects?
- Do you reschedule tasks when life throws you a curveball?
If you answered no to any of these questions, you’re not taking advantage of Outlook’s full potential, and you’re likely wasting your time and your company’s money.
Many people fall into the vicious cycle of not having the time to learn more of Outlook’s features, so they waste time because they don’t push Outlook to its full potential. It’s time to end that cycle – invest a little time now to learn how to utilize Outlook’s features and you’ll reap big, long-term rewards.
Additional Reading & watching
Some helpful training resources from Microsoft here
(This post first appeared in a ProfEd blog)
