From Karen
Bellows Page, CPS
Make
Outlook work for you! The journal function in outlook will track
every document you create, every website you visit and tell you how
much time you spent there. Outlook journal has several ways to
view your journal, time line or category to name a few. I have
categories made for each project, direct report and admin functions.
Once a day or every several days I categorize the journal entries and
add to my 2003 Journal folder, if kept up this only takes a few
minutes (use telephone hold time). This makes it easy to go to a
direct report with time spent on specific projects as you can print
out your journal or import into excel. Also near the end of each
month I add to my "Employment Notes" on what accomplishments
I achieved this month. At the end of the year or before review
time, I polish these notes (from outlook journal) and
present to my direct report. This made writing my review very
easy for direct report - who greatly appreciated it and as you might
guess I "aced" my review.