Episodes 82
Avg. Duration 44m
Activity Dormant
Since Jan 2000
Latest Episode Apr 2025

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Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Hosting
automateofficework.com

About This Podcast

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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Recent Episodes

24. AI Is Not the Answer to Everything

Apr 18, 2025 32m

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.

23. Team Responsibilities

Apr 11, 2025 29m

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.…

22. Batch Documents

Apr 04, 2025 36m

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…

21. An Approvals Platform that Isn't Email

Mar 28, 2025 30m

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.

20. Trainings. One department platform for them all.

Mar 21, 2025 24m

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…

19. Email. It's killing your productivity.

Mar 14, 2025 42m

It's time we discuss your email habits. It's killing your productivity. This is an intervention.

18. Ideas

Mar 07, 2025 20m

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…

17. Playbooks

Feb 28, 2025 26m

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…

16. Biographies

Feb 21, 2025 22m

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…

15. Donation Requests: a complex automation example

Feb 18, 2025 32m

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…

14. Org Charts

Feb 14, 2025 25m

Org charts are a pain to manually update—so why not automate them?

13. A conversation with Jonathan Williams about the future of legal work and legal technology

Feb 07, 2025 28m

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!

12. Automating People Stuff

Jan 31, 2025 33m

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…

11. My ideal contracts repository I built in Outlook and SharePoint

Jan 24, 2025 49m

Let me show you the repository I built that works exactly where I work. Accompanying article at https://automateofficework.com/products/contracts

10. Repository

Jan 17, 2025 20m

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…

9. Let's get rid of your spreadsheet chaos

Jan 10, 2025 30m

Do you have a spreadsheet you use for data tracking and it's driving you nuts? Let's get you to the right solution.

8. Getting to know the host, Justin

Dec 20, 2024 32m

It's time for me to share more about myself and my journey of automating as a corporate lawyer.

7. Processes: A deep dive

Dec 13, 2024 29m

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?

6. Templates: Bringing it all together

Dec 06, 2024 22m

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.

5. Template Libraries

Nov 29, 2024 31m

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…

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Automate Office Work has published 82 episodes since January 2000, covering topics in Business, Education.

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Automate Office Work is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 44m.

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