Automate Office Work
Conversations that help you automate your office work. We showcase workflows made by the host and guests and we work through tough problems mapping out the steps so you can go find the tools that work for you. Make work suck less.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 43
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
24. AI Is Not the Answer to Everything
We sit down for a conversation with Michael Thompson and discuss how to properly use AI. Michael is the head of Legal Operations at the international IT service provider of a global discount retailer…
00:32:13 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
23. Team Responsibilities
You're reaching out to me because my colleauge is on extended vacation? Well you'll just have to wait until they get back because no one on the rest of the team knows what they do or how to help you.…
00:29:21 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
22. Batch Documents
Are you or a team of people tasked with manually sending out thousands of documents for signature that are basically the same and some of them have small changes negotiated and you're going crazy wit…
00:36:29 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
21. An Approvals Platform that Isn't Email
Approvals can pop up at any place in a process. Do you have a way to capture them that isn't email and spreadsheets? Let's automate it.
00:30:02 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
20. Trainings. One department platform for them all.
Do you meet with groups of people to train them from time to time. Over Teams? You know you can record the training and make it available? All those ad hoc trainings that we do online. Record them an…
00:24:45 |
Fri 21 Mar 2025
19. Email. It's killing your productivity.
It's time we discuss your email habits. It's killing your productivity. This is an intervention.
00:42:40 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
18. Ideas
Ideas aren’t just sparks. They’re the rocket fuel for growth, transformation, and competitive edge. Yet too many organizations let these game-changing insights slip through the cracks, simply because…
00:20:20 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
17. Playbooks
After you have your templates in order, the next thing you'll want are playbooks. A place for people working with your templates to get the answers they need about the changes allowed and how to get …
00:26:53 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
16. Biographies
Automation can be used to connect and bring people together. In the last episode we went over an automated org chart. And when you clicked on a person there was a link to their biography. Here we sho…
00:22:41 |
Fri 21 Feb 2025
15. Donation Requests: a complex automation example
In many companies, Compliance tracks donation requests in a spreadsheet. And emails. Lots and lots of emails. Perhaps even months of emails. The small amounts of money often don't justify spending so…
00:32:28 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
14. Org Charts
Org charts are a pain to manually update—so why not automate them?
00:25:09 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
13. A conversation with Jonathan Williams about the future of legal work and legal technology
We sit down with Jonathan Williams from legal tech company Leya for a conversation. We have so many common interests the conversation is sure to be interesting!
00:28:51 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
12. Automating People Stuff
Everything starts with people. From the moment someone joins your department, you can set up automations that listen for this, adds them to a SharePoint group giving them access to resources they nee…
00:33:31 |
Fri 31 Jan 2025
11. My ideal contracts repository I built in Outlook and SharePoint
Let me show you the repository I built that works exactly where I work. Accompanying article at https://automateofficework.com/products/contracts
00:49:34 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
10. Repository
The repository is often a major part of workflows, usually at the end. When work is all done, there is often a need for a permanent place to keep work products and also meta data about the work produ…
00:20:18 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
9. Let's get rid of your spreadsheet chaos
Do you have a spreadsheet you use for data tracking and it's driving you nuts? Let's get you to the right solution.
00:30:02 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
8. Getting to know the host, Justin
It's time for me to share more about myself and my journey of automating as a corporate lawyer.
00:32:01 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
7. Processes: A deep dive
You must structure your work as a process for computers to best be able to do the work. But what are the essential parts of a process and how does it all fit together?
00:29:06 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
6. Templates: Bringing it all together
This is the third and final discussion about templates. This week we bring it all together and go through the steps how you can get your templates in order and keep them in order.
00:22:58 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
5. Template Libraries
A 20min discussion about how to build a template library for your department. Justin shows what he built in SharePoint that is reflected into Outlook for department members and on other web sites for…
00:31:08 |
Fri 29 Nov 2024
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