Background
You feel that now is the time to find an answer to the increasing pressure at work. You experience difficulty keeping the overview over your work. This may be partly due to an increasing amount of work, responsibilities and email traffic. Every day, you struggle with email and you find it difficult to prioritize and to keep the overview over your actions.

In the training Organize your work and yourself (OYW), you will work in your own digital Erasmus MC account to achieve more overview over your work. As soon as you have a better overview, you will notice that you can prioritize more easily and that you can plan your work more effectively.

Contents of the training
Workflow management is the central theme of the first two sessions. In first instance, you will work in your own Erasmus MC Outlook inbox to clean up your inbox and to rearrange your email archive. You will practice searching email in different ways. You will learn how to process email effectively end how to translate the contents of an email into goals that you want to achieve and into actions that are needed to achieve these goals. The result: an empty inbox every day and a clear overview over the emails that require action.

In addition, you will learn how to achieve overview over your projects and required actions with Outlook (first two sessions) and/or with Microsoft OneNote (session 4). OneNote is a digital notebook which you can use to make project and meeting notes and to organize project-related documents such as pdfs, Word, Excel files or lab results in one central place.

Finally, you will reflect on your personal working style and identify ineffective work routines (in session 3 and 5). You will work with more focus in a proactive manner on those things that are the most important in your work.

Course objectives

• Adopt a more efficient workflow in order to get more in control over your work.
• Process emails efficiently, have a better overview and spend less time on e-mail
• Achieve overview over your projects and actions
• Prioritize and plan your work more easily
• Gain more insight in your personal working style so that you can adapt your working style to work more effective.

• You receive a lot of email and your inbox is exploding
• You mark e-mails which require action with a flag or you make them unread
• You lose time by handling e-mails ineffectively and by ineffective archiving and searching
• You do not have a to-do list or maybe several to-do lists which are not working for you
• You are managing many projects and tasks and struggle to keep the overview
• You feel the need to organize meeting and project notes in a more consistent way
• Your work is slowing down by ineffective work routines 

ECTS
Full participation is  0,6 ECTS.