Working from home due to quarantine has its challenges, but it can’t be denied that cutting your daily commute from an hour to just a few steps from your bed to your home office also has its share of advantages. It’s brought you closer to the creature comforts of home, for one. For another, it also frees up enough time for you to pursue activities and projects that really matter to you.

Perhaps, instead of worrying about what you’ll wear, you can spend more time looking after your health and well-being by exercising or practising mindfulness. Instead of commuting, you can use up your energy to explore a domestic activity that you’ve been interested in trying. Pandemic restrictions and lockdowns have kept many of us home but have also offered us plenty of opportunities to pursue self-improvement.

At Priority Management, we offer a long list of programs that will benefit teams and employees who are keen on improving their skills and capabilities both in the workplace and in their personal endeavours. Below are the top three courses that will prove to be beneficial to people who want to grow and thrive in their positions while adapting to the “new normal” of working:

Working Sm@rt with Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager software developed and supported by Microsoft, though it’s primarily used by many people as an email client. Through the program, people can send, receive, and manage their emails and keep track of their conversations.

However, the program has many functionalities that most people don’t get to maximise, including automating the addition of your transportation and accommodation reservations to your calendar, collaborating in real-time with your team using other programs, and connecting assistive devices.

Our Working Sm@rt with Microsoft Outlook course takes a closer look at this popular time management program and equips learners with the basic foundational skills as well as advanced tricks that they can use to maximise Outlook. The course discusses how the smart use of Outlook can improve productivity, how to set themselves up for fruitful working hours, how to manage email and commitments using the program, and the importance of delegating work and priority planning.

The course is a great fit for employees and professionals who are on quarantine as it can be worked on after hours, and it typically only requires an hour of the learner’s time per day. By the end of the course, the learners should be able to fully utilise Outlook as the productivity platform that it is, as well as improve their prioritisation, communication, planning, and time management skills.

Working Sm@rt Executive Coaching

It can be daunting to assume or aim for a mentorship position if you feel that you’re not prepared for it. If you’re looking forward to training the next generation of leaders in your company, then now is a good time to start working on these goals. You can do this by signing up for an executive coaching session that centres on how to be an effective mentor to your junior colleagues.

Priority Management offers a course called Working Sm@rt Executive Coaching that aims to help leaders train the members of their organisation who show exceptional promise in their particular roles in the company. This course is designed for people who have the desire to become mentors, and it trains people to become effective coaches, mentors, and trainers. The course focuses on the five stages of mentoring and the strategies that would-be mentors can use to make the most out of the mentorship opportunities that they come across.

By the end of this mentorship course, a learner should be able to take on individual and team mentorship assignments, become more capable of conducting honest self-evaluation and assessment, set goals to continue their progress, as well as take steps to improve their coaching capabilities. Taking this course while in quarantine gives one the opportunity to self-reflect and analyse how the strategies they picked up can be implemented in a “new normal” workplace.

Working Sm@rt with MS Teams

Collaboration is a key component of success in many professional spaces, and this is true now more than ever, as many people are working away from their colleagues. If you’re having trouble keeping up with online work setups, then Priority Management’s Working Sm@rt with MS Teams can help you adjust to and thrive in this new environment.

The course focuses on how to work effectively as a team as well as how to apply business processes and structures to your online working environment using the applications available on Microsoft Teams. From setting up the program to using its functionalities, such as document sharing and project management, this course covers it all.

Make the most out of your extra time by improving yourself and boosting your productivity using modern and popular business and productivity applications in the market today. Enrol in the courses offered by Priority Management now!