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Title: Managing the Madness: Keeping Your Sanity in the Information Age
Date: August 5, 2010
Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Instructor: Maura Nevel Thomas
Location: One Highland Center, 314 E. Highland Mall Blvd., Suite 403, Austin, TX 78752
Price: $150
Early Bird Discount Rate: $135 per person if you register by July 20, 2010.
Please note: This course uses Microsoft Outlook as a primary support tool. However, a laptop is not required for this class.
Course Description:
Successful people have their hands full at work. And most are also dedicated to a balanced life, and time with family and friends. This creates more communication, more responsibilities, and more commitments. Not to mention an endless to-do list. Few people have learned the skills necessary to balance these increased demands on their time. Even the most organized people are finding themselves overwhelmed and stressed out. A calendar and to-do list, even the electronic versions, just don’t cut it anymore.
This four-hour workshop teaches you the Empowered Productivity SystemTM and uses Microsoft Outlook as the primary support tool. However, MAC users can be accommodated. When you register online, please specify if you are a MAC user or Microsoft Outlook user in the Notes section on the online form.
Take this course to arm yourself with the skills you need to regain control over endless to-do lists, learn to prevent things from falling through the cracks, and empower yourself to be consistently productive and proactive.
Part One: Getting Out From Under - Clear Your Mind
This workshop teaches participants to capture that information in a logical manner, so that it can be managed and acted upon appropriately. The process will help lower your stress level, make fewer mistakes, and forget less. By the end of this session, you will have:
a useful system for managing your workload,
a plan to combat the feeling of being overwhelmed that sneaks up on us all,
techniques to avoid procrastination,
learned tips and techniques for getting maximum effectiveness from Microsoft Outlook®,
the skills to gain peace of mind knowing that everything is under control, and
the ability to be constantly proactive, whether they have five minutes or five hours to get things done.
Part Two: Clear Your Space - Controlling Paper and Email
Clutter saps your mental energy and has a demotivating effect on your state of mind. It also causes wasted time spent looking for things. This workshop will help you regain your space from physical and electronic clutter, give everything a home, and teaches you an effective, practical method for keeping it that way. Both paper and email will be organized in a logical way that will allow you to easily retrieve and act upon information in a timely manner. By the end of this session, you will have:
advanced tips and techniques for getting maximum effectiveness from Outlook®
a filing strategy that will support you in a logical, meaningful way
a filing system that will be easily understood by anyone in the office, thus, smoothing employee transitions, team projects, and staff vacations.
a useful, repeatable system for managing paper and email
email best-practices - useful guidelines
a process for staying on top of things and in control
Note: This course was previously offered under the title, "Empowered Productivity - Getting Out From Under."
Instructor Bio: Maura Nevel Thomas
Maura Thomas founded RegainYourTime.com in 2003 and her expertise in effectiveness and attention comes from 16 years in the productivity training industry. During that time, she developed a process for getting things done with low stress and increased efficiency, called the Empowered Productivity System TM. She has been invited to speak and train at business groups, conferences, events, and corporations, large and small, nationally and internationally.
Maura earned an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, publishes a widely-read blog on productivity issues, has a strong social media presence and is very active in the local community, sitting on a variety of non-profit boards and committees.
CPE: 4 hours
TX Board of Public Accountancy Sponsor Number: 009317
Cancellation Information: Cancellation Date: July 15, 2010
To cancel your registration from this course, please call or email the course
contact listed below. If a cancellation is received after the cancellation
date, the registrant will be charged $50 for course materials.
If you are making travel plans to come to the training, please make "refundable" air and hotel reservations or wait until 14 days before the class to actually book your reservations. Courses are occasionally canceled or rescheduled due to low enrollment. We determine whether a course has enough participants approximately 16 days prior to the course date. If we cancel or reschedule, we will email the participant no later than 14 days before the original class date. Solutions Training will not pay for cancellation/change fees associated with travel and hotel arrangement changes.
Class participants will
be billed after the class. Payment should be made to SOLUTIONS TRAINING GROUP,
Federal Tax ID: 20-2732184 and mailed to 2701 Maria Anna Rd, Austin, TX 78703.
If you have any questions, please contact Shannon Bieberdorf at (512) 914-5557
shannon@solutionstraininggroup.com. For
additional information about this class, please contact Laurie Garrant at laurie@solutionstraininggroup.com,
(512) 914-5567.
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