Randall Dean

In this popular program on “finding an extra hour” every day, Randy Dean, “The E-mail Sanity Expert”®, uses  humor and high energy as he covers many of the most common areas of productivity loss afflicting many  busy professionals: e-mail and input overload, managing multiple projects/tasks, unexpected  interruptions, mental and physical “clutter”, and better managing your time, people, and projects.

This  includes specific strategies for Microsoft and Google users so they can apply these strategies to  the software they use every day. helping stressed performers find extra time, leading to (hopefully!) an  extra hour of productivity and focus every day.

At the end of this session, people will be able to:

• Have a smarter regimen for managing incoming e-mail with less distraction and more focus.
• Have a strategy for more effectively dealing with unexpected interruptions.
• Know how to build a project-based, prioritized daily task list.
• Keep up with the people that “owe them stuff”, to help avoid unnecessary urgency & missed  deadlines.
• Use popular functions in your calendar to schedule and meet commitments.
• “De-clutter” your brain by moving “all of those lists” out of your head into a better place.
• Learn a few very useful AI tips, and a bit on how AI chatbots work.
• Have a better way to both start and “work” your day so you are more focused, more prioritized, and  less distracted.
• For Outlook users, this program will also potentially provide tips and techniques for using all five  of the key Outlook functions: E-mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes.
• Gmail/Google tips can also be incorporated if you have an audience of mixed users. 

Every day, busy professionals are getting buried under a continuing stream of both  useful and useless e-mail. If you would like to get control of your e-mail “beast”, attend  this program led by Randy Dean, MBA, author of the Amazon bestseller, Taming the E-mail Beast.

Randy shares strategies for effective e-mail management, organization, and prioritization (with live and newly updated demos in popular programs like MS Outlook and Gmail) that have helped thousands of professionals regain control and  sanity in their inboxes. Enhance your productivity and efficiency with your e-mail and walk away with immediately usable tips and techniques! 

At the end of this program, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the nature of e-mail & information overload in today's workplace Have a strategy for “splitting” work, personal, and junk/spam e-mails for greater efficiency.
• Use a very simple “rule” for managing all incoming e-mail that allows for both greater  speed and prioritization of those messages and embedded tasks.
• Learn how to convert e-mails quickly into tasks, contacts, and calendar items Use embedded functions inside of your e-mail that allow you to “automate” certain common activities/messages.
• Greatly reduce distraction by setting up special notifiers and adjusting internal settings in both Outlook & Gmail.
• Build a personal file “infrastructure” that can assist in achieving greater organization and possibly even “e-mail ZERO”!
• Demos now include not only the “Old” Outlook (local client version), but also the “New” & Web Outlook versions, as well as Gmail for mixed audiences.

You may have seen the many changes that Microsoft and Google has been making to a  number of their most popular software tools, especially Microsoft Outlook and Gmail. Not only has the onboard “local client” (formerly Outlook 2016/2019) changed the home screen and some of the key features, but now there is also “Web Outlook” and “New Outlook”, and Gmail keeps changes settings and features. How do you find your stuff, keep your productivity, and just keep your head from spinning with all these recent changes?  

That’s where Randy Dean, MBA: The E-mail Sanity Expert ® comes in – in this session, he’ll help show you where both Microsoft and Google  moved your cheese, and get you back to focused productivity as well as  show some of the cool newer tools available in Outlook, Gmail and  possibly some of the other 365 and/or Google Workspace tools. Hopefully now you can find that cheese!

Key Learning Points:

• Learn how to use new features in the Microsoft Outlook Local Client and New/Web  Outlook versions for enhanced productivity.
• Set up your screens and views for easier information access and efficiency when  doing common activities in Outlook, Gmail, and enhanced tools in each suite.
• Automate some of your outgoing messages using advanced techniques in your  signatures, templates, and more.
• Start and work your day more intelligently and with less distraction by setting up your  software and browser to help you maintain focus on your most important items.