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Instructor
Melissa Esquibel
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Missing deadlines is painful. Learning new applications can be time-consuming. Successfully managing your projects is non-negotiable. If you’re using post-it-notes, paper planners, spreadsheets, notetaking apps, or just a Word document to manage your projects, you’re missing some important elements of effective project management strategies.
So, with the slimming and trimming of workforces and many job roles being augmented to include project management and project coordination, it might seem daunting if your toolset and experience are limited. But you use Outlook every day! Outlook has several features that can help you develop a plan, track tasks, and bring important projects in on time.
Whether your projects are yours alone or the work is shared with colleagues, Outlook can help you track who is doing what and how their progress is impacting others. Even if you are using other tools to manage large, complex projects, sometimes you just need something straightforward and easy to manage a task plan and deadlines without the overhead of using yet another application or resorting to something far less effective.
In this session, you will learn the great tools hiding in plain sight in Microsoft Outlook to help you manage projects. Most people are just using Outlook for email and calendaring, but did you know that Outlook has robust Task features that allow you to develop a project plan, establish start and due dates, assign work, and track progress?
We will also demonstrate how Outlook can integrate with several other Microsoft applications to expand the capabilities and reach of your project plan, including: