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.

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Update frequency: every 6 days
Average duration: 34 minutes
Episodes: 43
Years Active: 2024 - 2025

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4. Templates: How to structure them for automation and how .docx files work

In this first session on Templates, Justin shows how to structure contract templates in Word. This makes it easier for humans to work with them. Then he shows how DOCX files work and how you can auto…

00:30:54 | Fri 22 Nov 2024

3. Turning Intake Forms into a Request Platform

Justin shows how to stop using Excel and Outlook when managing your work that is initiated with intake form in a request platform. He demonstrates the solution he built inside SharePoint.

00:31:25 | Fri 15 Nov 2024

2. Automation Starts with Intake

Join the host, Justin, as he goes through the benefits of intake forms. Starting with paper, progressing to smart PDF's and ideally ending with a web page where you can send your requesters and get t…

00:28:51 | Fri 08 Nov 2024

1. Getting Started Automating in the Microsoft Environment

Join the host Justin Turman as he shows how to get started automating using Microsoft Power Automate and SharePoint. Justin was a corporate lawyer for 10 years where he automated most of his work. He…

00:29:28 | Fri 01 Nov 2024

32. Department Lists

In a previous episode "Automating People Stuff" we talked about creating a list of people in a department that maintains itself as people join and leave. Today we'll go over how to allow people to su…

28. Design with Peter Hornsby

We sit down to talk with Peter Hornsby about design. What is it? What are the benefits of design? How do we incorporate design principals into the many facets of our lives? And what role will design …

35. Monthly Reports

One of the biggest pains in office work: Monthly reports. You're a manager and you have to report up the chain what your team worked on for the month. Your team members scramble the last day of the m…

39. Employee Photos

Here's how to automate something really complex. A portal for employee photos. We will automate every part of this. No more spreadsheets. No more emailing people for consents. And when an employee le…

36. Beautiful Solutions

Creating a solution that functions beautifully while also looking beautiful can be difficult. You may think that you weren't born with artistic skills. But it can be learned with practice.

43. Automating Privacy Compliance

I'm joined by Marianne and Roel who decided to found Awesome Compliance Technology. Literally. We'll hear how they went from dream to reality and what they've learned along the way. Prepare to be ins…

41. Building Your Dream

Do you have a dream for how your work should look? All in one place in a single platform? Everything connected? Organized? Automated? Here's how to get started.

30. SharePoint

You think you know SharePoint. Think again. Learn how to use it on steroids. It's the technology used behind Teams and OneDrive and the place to store data if you want to use CoPilot to the fullest. …

27. Mailing Lists

Has your boss ever asked you to email a section of your department? Perhaps all the product managers. Or all the administrative assistants. Or all the interns. Was it a pain to create this list and t…

26. Vendor Maps

You manage the list of vendors for your department. Now how do you get department members to use the existing vendors instead of asking to onboard even more vendors every time? I'll show a solution i…

25. Automating Legal with Sare Brownhill

We sit down for a conversation with Sare Brownhill. Sare spent two decades in the legal industry working in various law firms in the UK. In January of 2024 she made the switch to head of legal soluti…

37. Thinking Like a Programmer

The programmer's mindset is great to have when building solutions. Programmer's often get it by learning to code. But the thing is, you don't have to learn to code to get it. By learning to spot patt…

38. Onboarding

Be honest. Could your onboarding process use some improving? Here's how to automate it.

40. Beautiful SharePoint Pages

Your company has SharePoint. But you're severely limited in what you can put on a page. Wouldn't it be nice if you could make it exactly how you want it? It's possible.

42. Live Group Chat

Group chat with a diverse group of professionals all working in legal tech. Come hear all kinds of ideas about where legal technology is going and how we're using it.

34. Mapping Out a Solution: a Case Study

You've identified your problem. Now how do you know what a good solution looks like? Map it out. You can then go build it or evaluate existing products from vendors to make sure they meet your needs.

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