This advanced productivity seminar draws upon accumulated research and proven practices from leading productivity experts and organizational scholars. Provided through a partnership between FranklinCovey and AMA, this program equips professionals with practical tools and systems for maximizing productivity across professional and personal domains.
Professional demands frequently create overwhelming pressure on individuals and teams. When combined with constant information influx and competing distractions, work environments become exhausting and psychologically taxing. Without deliberate, thoughtful responses to these pressures, our capacity for clear thinking and sound judgment deteriorates; we struggle to distinguish what genuinely matters from what merely demands urgent attention. Consequently, high-priority professional and personal goals frequently receive insufficient attention or remain completely unaccomplished.
This comprehensive productivity program integrates recent neuroscience research with scientifically validated productivity principles to help you manage decisions, attention allocation, and energy expenditure more effectively. You will learn structured methodologies, supported by practical Microsoft Outlook software applications, that dramatically amplify your ability to achieve life's most important outcomes through consistently making choices that generate substantial value for yourself and your organization. This research-based approach produces measurable productivity gains while simultaneously fostering a renewed sense of engagement, satisfaction, and personal accomplishment.
To optimize learning outcomes, please bring your personal laptop for hands-on software practice and customization.
Appropriate Participants:
Business professionals at all organizational levels seeking practical tools to maximize workplace productivity and accomplish extraordinary results.
Expected Benefits:
- Apply contemporary neuroscience findings on brain health to enhance workplace productivity
- Establish shared language with colleagues around what constitutes "important and urgent" priorities
- Discover practical approaches to achieving genuine, sustainable work-life balance
- Develop customized, practical systems for managing high-impact goals and projects
- Master technology tools so that technology serves your productivity rather than controlling your time
Key Topics
Choice 1: Acting on the Important Instead of Reacting to the Urgent
- Distinguish between genuinely important matters and merely urgent or insignificant demands
- Teach colleagues the language and practical methodology of distinguishing importance
Choice 2: Going for Extraordinary Instead of Settling for Ordinary
- Clarify what exceptional performance looks like in your most critical professional roles
- Define measurable objectives and execute strategic plans to achieve role-based outcomes
Choice 3: Scheduling the Big Rocks Instead of Sorting Gravel
- Master weekly planning approaches to identify, schedule, and execute high-impact priorities
- Perfect daily planning processes ensuring attention, energy, and execution alignment
Choice 4: Ruling Your Technology Instead of Letting It Rule You
- Create a customized system managing appointments, tasks, contacts, notes, and document organization
- Transform Outlook into a powerful personal productivity workflow engine
Choice 5: Fueling Your Fire Instead of Burning Out
- Understand the neurobiological factors affecting daily performance and energy levels
- Apply five evidence-based Energy Drivers to sustain optimal energy throughout your day
Special Features:
Pre-Work Assessment
Upon registration, you will receive access to an online benchmark assessment featuring twenty-six questions evaluating your current productivity behaviors and patterns. You will have the opportunity to reassess yourself after course completion to measure your progress and growth.
Materials Provided to Participants
- Comprehensive Participant Guide with practical applications
- Technical Microsoft Outlook reference guide
- The 5 Choices brief monograph, including an integrated notebook
- Bonus video-based mini-courses with accompanying practical toolkits
Structured Learning Objectives
- Apply Recent Neuroscience Research on Brain Health to Maximize Workplace Productivity
- Develop Shared Language with Colleagues Regarding "Important and Urgent" Priorities
- Achieve Genuine and Sustainable Work-Life Balance
- Create Customized Practical Systems for Managing High-Impact Goals
- Master Technology to Support Rather Than Control Your Productivity
