This course is based on proven ideas and best practices accumulated over decades from the leading experts and thought leaders in the field of productivity. This distinctive FranklinCovey seminar, provided through AMA, will help you develop the necessary tools and habits to maximize your productivity and effectiveness in the workplace while maintaining meaningful balance in your personal life.
For most of us, the demanding expectations our careers place on our shoulders can become quite overwhelming. Combine this with the constant distractions caused by an unending influx of information, emails, messages, and notifications, and our lives can become downright exhausting. If we don't respond to these stimuli with clear discernment and intentionality, our ability to think clearly and make wise decisions about what's truly important suffers significantly. As a result, the goals that matter most in our professional and personal lives often get shortchanged or, worse, not accomplished at all.
This comprehensive productivity seminar combines cutting-edge neuroscience research with proven, time-tested productivity principles to help you better manage your decisions, attention, and energy. You will learn how to apply a systematic process, which incorporates the practical use of Microsoft Outlook®, to dramatically increase your ability to achieve life's most important outcomes by consistently making choices that create extraordinary value for yourself and your organization. This solution not only produces a measurable increase in productivity and output but can also provide you with a genuine renewed sense of engagement, purpose, and accomplishment in your work and life.
To maximize your learning and hands-on practice in this course, it is recommended that you bring your laptop for a more interactive and practical experience.
Who Should Attend:
Business professionals at all organizational levels, from individual contributors to senior leaders, who are looking for practical tools to maximize productivity, achieve ambitious goals, and experience the extraordinary in their professional and personal lives.
How You Will Benefit:
- Apply the latest cutting-edge science on brain health to maximize your productivity in the workplace
- Utilize a common language with colleagues to ensure alignment around what is truly "important and urgent"
- Recognize and achieve true, consistent, sustainable work-life balance
- Create a personalized, practical system for managing your highest-impact goals and priorities
- Manage technology so it doesn't manage you; take control of your digital life
What You Will Cover:
Choice 1: Acting on the Important Instead of Reacting to the Urgent
- Develop skills for discerning the truly important from the merely urgent or less important
- Learn how to teach others the language and methodology of distinguishing importance
Choice 2: Going for Extraordinary Instead of Settling for Ordinary
- Clarify what extraordinary success and achievement look like in your current, most important professional and personal roles
- Define and execute measurable, specific goals to achieve your most important role outcomes
Choice 3: Scheduling the Big Rocks Instead of Sorting Gravel
- Master comprehensive weekly planning processes to identify, schedule, and execute your highest-impact priorities
- Master detailed daily planning processes to ensure optimal attention, energy, and execution
Choice 4: Ruling Your Technology Instead of Letting It Rule You
- Design a personalized system to manage your appointments, tasks, contacts, notes, and documents effectively
- Transform Microsoft Outlook® into a powerful productivity workflow engine that supports your goals
Choice 5: Fueling Your Fire Instead of Burning Out
- Understand the significant impact of brain health and well-being on your day-to-day performance and resilience
- Learn to use the 5 Energy Drivers to sustain and enhance your energy levels throughout the day and across the weeks
Special Features
PRE-WORK REQUIRED
Upon registration, you will receive a personalized link to an online benchmark assessment consisting of 26 thought-provoking questions to establish a baseline and see where you currently stand on key productivity behaviors and habits. You will have the valuable opportunity to take the benchmark assessment again after applying what you have learned in the course to measure your progress and growth.
ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE
- Comprehensive Participant Guide with tools and templates
- Microsoft Outlook® Technical Guide with step-by-step instructions
- The 5 Choices: a brief monograph with integrated notebook for note-taking
- Bonus Modules: three video-based mini-courses with accompanying toolkits
Course Outline and Learning Objectives
- Apply the Latest Cutting-Edge Science on Brain Health to Maximize Your Productivity
- Utilize a Common Language with Others to Ensure Everyone is Aligned Around "Important and Urgent"
- Recognize How to Achieve True and Consistent, Sustainable Work-Life Balance
- Create a Personalized, Practical System for Managing Your High-Impact Goals and Priorities
- Manage Technology So It Doesn't Manage You and Your Attention
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
