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Mini Case Studies

Penny Milner-Smyth

Human Resources Executive, South African Sugar Association, Durban

Herewith details of this excellent trainer who has been so helpful to us in the field of improving productivity through optimal use of MS Outlook. You will especially like his focus on achieving better work-life balance through smarter use of technology.

If you think about it we have all learned our own strategies along the way for managing our incoming mail and organising ourselves using technology, but few of us have had any actual training in this area. For a bunch of people highly committed to being as productive as possible and who consider ourselves fairly jacked up technology wise I must say we have had our eyes opened by Gerrit. We have a lot of “knowledge workers” – scientists etc, and any one of them will tell you that their effectiveness, personal organisation, stress levels etc have improved since they have had exposure to Gerrit’s input.

Gerrit has set rates but is always open to a reasonable proposal. Furthermore, you get value from him long after you have left the workshop/s as he keeps sending new ideas and encouraging delegates to implement and advance the practices he has covered.

In particular, his three hour “Outlook Productivity Blitz” is an amazing value for money offering, although if one can spare half a day there is additional benefit.”

Rob Dennison

Founder / Owner of TRAINIAC | www.trainiac.com

Working with Gerrit Cloete enabled me to streamline my email Inbox in such a way that I am able to go on a business trip for three days, return and still get on top of things within an hour of being back in the office! I don’t jump in and out of my Inbox anymore, but dedicate a certain time of the day to reading new emails.

I’m not looking to work hard. I’ve got a business to run and although I don’t want to be both boss and administrator, my company doesn’t need a PA right now. By re-engineering my Inbox I have improved my productivity and freed myself up to concentrate more on my business.

South African Sugar Research Institute

“The South African Sugarcane Research Institute converted to Microsoft Outlook in 2008, after more than 10 years of using the GroupWise messaging system. Initially the change over presented employees with considerable anxiety about the potential loss of information such as contacts and stored emails. From a technology point of view that process took place smoothly. Then however, came the learning. Our organisation uses the calendar function extensively for the purposes of arranging meetings, both for groups and smaller meetings. In addition, we have high volumes of emails as information is exchanged between various collaborating institutions. We decided to enlist the help of Productivity Pit Stop to help us firstly get to grips with Outlook and secondly to use the system as efficiently as possible to save time and reduce frustration in the working day.

After over 100 people from our laboratories, research farms and offices attended the programme, I can confirm that everyone learned something (many learned lots) and almost all delegates said that they learned things that have helped them so much in organising their time and incoming information that they never even realised were possible.

We can highly recommend the courses offered by Productivity Pit Stop in terms of improving both time management and efficient use of Microsoft Outlook.”

Catherine Botes

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