Overview
In this feature-packed session for Google users, Randy shows several strategies and techniques on how the new Google Workplace suite of productivity apps can be used for an advanced personal productivity and time management system. Randy will help you understand how to optimize many of the different functions within Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Google Tasks & Google Keep and affiliated apps in Chrome and your devices. See how you can get so much more from this powerful and amazingly useful “cloud-based” software, opening up the freedom of any device -- laptop, desktop, phone, tablet, on any platform, anywhere!
Three Bullet Points:
Can you honestly use Google's "cloud-based" "Workspace" apps for professional business & productivity activities? The answer: ABSOLUTELY! -- this session will show you how!
Strategies for managing projects & tasks in a Google/online environment, including an overview of the improved Google Tasks function and related Smart Phone apps
Calendaring tips and techniques for online calendar management anywhere, including meeting management, effective use of reminders, group calendar access, and more
A smart daily "Start Up" routine that will guarantee you are focusing on key projects, people, and commitments with less distraction
Why you should Attend
In this feature-packed session for Google users, Randy shows several strategies and techniques on how the new Google Suite of productivity apps can seriously be considered for an advanced personal productivity and time management system. Randy will help you understand how many of the different functions within Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Google Tasks & Google Keep and affiliated apps and add ons in Chrome and on smart phone/tablet devices. Randy can show you how these new applications were designed for enhanced productivity and give great suggestions on how you can get so much more from this powerful and amazingly useful “cloud-based” software, opening up the freedom of any device -- laptop, desktop, phone, tablet, on any platform, anywhere!
Areas Covered in the Session
- Why Google-based apps stored "in the cloud" make sense for many business professionals
- Key tips & strategies for Google-based e-mail management, including “folder” design and management, converting e-mails to task, calendar items, and contacts, and automating repeating messages
- Strategies for managing projects & tasks in a Google/online environment, including an overview of the improved Google Tasks function and related Smart Phone apps
- Calendaring tips and techniques for online calendar management anywhere, including meeting management, effective use of reminders, group calendar access, and more
- A smart daily "Start Up" routine that will guarantee you are focusing on key projects, people, and commitments with less distraction
- Clearing the clutter from your head using easily available Google Keep
- Managing your contacts online using Google Contacts and apps like LinkedIn (& even Facebook)
- A discussion on integration with existing peripherals -- anyplace, anywhere you have Internet!
Who Will Benefit
Speaker Profile
Randy Dean, The E-mail Sanity Expert®, is a professional speaker and expert on time & e-mail management and the related use of technology. For 30 years, Randy has been leading programs for major corporate, university, association, and governmental audiences. He has led programs for thousands of inspired students, managers, and professionals on being more productive with their time and technology. His highly informative and entertaining speaking and training programs leave audience members with immediately usable tools, strategies, and tips leading to saved time and effort, more focus, less distraction, and higher efficiency.
Randy is best known for his programs on time, project, people, distraction, and especially e-mail management using popular tools like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail/Google apps, and smart phones & tablets. He also has new programs on working from home more productively, getting more from meetings & virtual meetings, and specific programming on Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace tools and systems. His popular YouTube channel provides numerous short video tips on key software tools like Outlook and Gmail, as well as content on key productivity and time management strategies, techniques, and issues.
His speaking and training programs are consistently some of the highest-rated programs for the many clients he speaks for, including at major conferences/conventions, Fortune 500 organizations, top universities, governmental agencies, and leading nonprofits -- basically anyone struggling to better manage their time, e-mail, and smart phone/tablet devices. (And he makes these topics fun and engaging too!)
He has previously been interviewed by numerous media outlets including radio, television, newspaper, and blog/podcast sites. He is a 15+ year full member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and also a member of the Florida and Michigan Society of Association Executives
Instructor
Randy Dean