K2’s Productivity Life Hacks

Today's busy professional has an ever-expanding workload, but delivery timelines are decreasing. We have more meetings, more emails, and more work projects. Outside of work, we have increased family and social obligations. Simply, there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done. We all could benefit from an extra hour of productivity throughout the day.

Effectively using technology in your personal and business life is a great way to get more mileage out of your day. This course will look at 10 different tools or services that can make your life easier or take the headache out of mundane tasks. We will look at tools that simplify scheduling appointments, take the hassle out of tracking time, improve data sharing between applications, and more. Participants will leave this class with tips and tricks on shaving hours of time per week.

Objectives

• Recognize
• quantify
• and rank your time obligation categories in your work and personal life
• Discover and list the various inefficiencies of your day-to-day work and list methods for improving them  
• List and distinguish at least five different technology tools that can be used to automate day-to-day work
• Select tools and techniques that can be used to gain better control and efficiencies over your email inbox and calendar
• List the various ways a Streamdeck can provide push-button automation on your computer
• Make scheduling appointments a breeze with services such as Calendly

Highlights

• Using tools such as Clockify or Rescue Time to gain insight
• Easily install applications using Ninite on your Windows 10/11 device
• Improve data sharing between applications with Zapier
• Power Automate
• and others
• Connecting to multiple communication applications (e.g.
• Teams
• Slack
• etc.) at once with Rambox
• Using Inbox rules and filters to categorize and prioritize email automatically
• Write more effectively with predictive text in Word and use Grammarly for spelling/grammar checking
• Easily improve the security of your Windows device using services such as Controlled Folder Access
• BitLocker
• and others
• Make backup a snap with services such as Google Drive
• Microsoft OneDrive
• and Dropbox
• Best tips and tricks to make better use of your smartphone
• Using a Streamdeck for push-button integration and automation

Who Will Benefit

Business professionals that would like to save time and increase their operational effectiveness in their day-to-day lives

Credits