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Outlook is a great tool for helping your users organize their schedules. However, even with the features Outlook offers, at least some of your users could use some additional time management tools. You might consider evaluating PlanPlus for Microsoft Outlook from FranklinCovey.
PlanPlus brings many of the schedule planning tools in the company's other planning systems to Microsoft Outlook users. For example, PlanPlus lets users prioritize task lists, quickly plan the upcoming week, and set a master task list to help them focus on major projects. The program also provides synchronization with Palm and Pocket PC handhelds to help users keep their handheld devices synced to Outlook.
In addition to custom Outlook views for managing schedules, tasks, and other items, PlanPlus also provides interactive coaching to help users become more effective in managing their workday. In addition, the program offers a feature called Weekly Compass that helps users better balance work, personal schedules, and priorities.
Finally, if you've struggled to set up Outlook to print to your users' FranklinCovey paper planning sheets, you'll be happy to learn that PlanPlus can print schedules in four FranklinCovey planning page sizes.
As support professionals, we sometimes focus almost exclusively on the technical aspects of helping users and exclude less technical issues such as effective time management. Improving user productivity might not have a direct impact on the number of support calls you have to field, but at the very least, less harried users might not be so stressed when they do call you for help.
To learn more about PlanPlus for Microsoft Outlook, check out the FranklinCovey Web site. |
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