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This tutorial demonstrates three essential productivity-enhancing techniques for using Gemini in Google Workspace across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and other applications. Begin with a comprehensive introduction to Gemini in Google Workspace, understanding its capabilities beyond basic search functionality. Learn to accelerate your thinking process by using Gemini to summarize lengthy email threads, extract critical information from documents, identify sales patterns in spreadsheets, and automatically capture meeting notes in Google Meet. Discover how to leverage Gemini for content creation, including drafting empathetic emails, generating complete job descriptions, building presentations, and creating marketing videos with Google Vids—even without design experience. Master the automation of repetitive tasks using Gems, which are pre-configured AI assistants that streamline weekly reporting, proposal writing, and customer support responses. The 21-minute video, hosted by David DeWinter, includes a practical demonstration of a GEM prompt for improving email communication with difficult customers and colleagues, maintaining professionalism while showing empathy and confidence.
Syllabus
00:00 - Intro
00:36 - Chat with Gemini
01:45 - Power Move #1
08:23 - Power Move #2
17:35 - Power Move #3
20:30 - Wrap-up
Taught by
Kevin Stratvert