Take Back Your Life!: Using Microsoft Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Org

If you’re bogged down by too many e-mail messages, action items, and interruptions, reclaim control of your workday by applying the same time-management and productivity techniques used in some of the world’s most successful companies. In this engaging and easy-to-read book, Sally McGhee makes the heart of her popular corporate training class available to everyone struggling to rebalance his or her work life and deliver better results. Whether you get 30 or 300 e-mail messages a day, whether you know Outlook inside out or just the basics, you’ll learn how to make Outlook part of an overall personal organization system that meets the needs of your unique work style and workload. Learn how to avoid being overwhelmed by e-mail messages, effectively read and take action on incoming communications, apply a practical, five-phase model to create a total life management system, use appropriate e-mail protocol, and handle workplace interruptions: this book provides proven techniques for stemming the information and activity deluging every desk, from entry-level employee to CEO!

Key Book Benefits:

Learn how to make Outlook part of an effective and highly personalized system for managing the constant stream of information that flows across your desktop

Delivers the same powerful personal organization techniques from Managing Action, a popular corporate training class taught in some of the world’s most successful companies

Written in an engaging, easy-to-read style for Outlook users of all levels

Applies concepts and models from the fields of behavioral psychology and education