The document discusses automating tasks to save time. It recommends automating repetitive, low-value tasks that you dislike and that do not help you reach your goals. Examples of tasks to automate include email sorting, scheduling, image and video conversions, file renaming, search and replace functions, and converting documents. Automating recurring tasks can free up time to focus on higher priority work and personal activities. The presentation encourages attendees to identify five tasks they could automate to become more efficient.

1. Automate That!
Jenny Hill

2. Your Presenter
Senior Instructional Designer
at Economical Insurance
Waterloo, Wellington and
Area IPL Chapter Executive
member
Passionate about learning,
tech, music, theatre, and
travel!
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Jenny Hill, CPLP, CTDP

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Change moves fast, work moves fast, and
life moves fast

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But the faster we move with it…

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We make more mistakes

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We have more stress

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We lose more time

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Get some time back!

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What five things in
your day do you
think you could
automate?

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Time-consuming, repetitive,
low value tasks
Tasks you HATE doing
Tasks that don’t help you
reach your overall career
and business goals
Tasks that computers are
well-suited to complete
What to Automate

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Things that require a human
touch
Things that you should stop
doing altogether
Things you LOVE to do
Tasks that take longer to
automate than they do to
complete
What NOT to Automate

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Email
Email

13. Sorting, Organizing, and Prioritizing
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Creating Rules

14. Responding and Follow Up
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Scheduling

16. Images – Batch Resize
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Creating Rules
You can batch process
your images to resize them all.
To do this, open Photoshop, then
go to File > Automate > Batch.
You should now see
the Batch window.
Choose the set that you created
your action in, and then choose
your action.

17. Videos – Batch Convert
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18. Files – Batch Rename
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19. Search and Replace
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20. Converting Word Files to HTML
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(super nerd-mode)
Node and Mammoth.js

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Other great opportunities
• Social media content sharing
• Recurring invoices
• Status communications
• Filling out forms
• Meal Planning
• Recurring appointments
• Bill paying
• File back-up
• Tasks in your personal life (Roomba,
anyone?)

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Each time you repeat a
task, take a step toward
automating that task.

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Don’t just catch up, get ahead

24. Thank You For Attending!
Keep the conversation going - #i4pl16 #automatethat

25. Questions?
Contact me! jenny@jennyrhill.com