We sit down for a conversation with Michael and discuss how to properly use AI. Michael is the head of Legal Operations at the international IT service srovider of a global discount retailer.

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. Bye bye! [No. let's fix this now]

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 with the sheer number of emails going back and forth and maintaining a spreadsheet for visibility? Stop. There's a better way.

Apporvals 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.

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 and put them all in one place.

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

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 they don’t have the right systems to capture them. Full article at https://automateofficework.com/ideas.

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 those changes.

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 show the Biographies platform. https://automateofficework.com/biographies.

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

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!

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 need, sends them a welcome email with links to onboarding resources, signs them up with appropriate mailing lists, adds them to the department org chart, creates a space for them to add their biography. The list goes on and on. We will explore this topic and see just how much we can cover in 30 minutes. https://automateofficework.com/people

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

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 products. This is a key piece that you need to nail down.

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

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

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?

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.

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 work requesters.Following the presentation, live audience members are encouraged to comment or join live to discuss anything they want related to their own scenarios.

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 automatically fill data into them. https://automateofficework.com/templates https://automateofficework.com/docx