FOCUS Achieving Your Highest Priorities
1 Day Time Management Workshop
This is an exciting new program in collaboration with the Small Business Development Centers across the U.S., FranklinCovey. This one-day seminar is well established as one of the most powerful management development programs in business today and is now available at a special reduced price for small businesses (organization must have less than 300 employees).
Avoid Distractions and Achieve Meaningful Results Every Day
Life's hectic pace can distract us from what is most important
Consider the following statistics*:
-Less than one in five people begins the day with a plan
-The deluge of spam has skyrocketed to 10 billion e-mails a day
-Only 37% of those who make a task list prioritize their tasks
-Less than half of professionals feel satisfied with their work
* Sources: Harris Interactive Survey, Dec 2003, and Tech News World Special Report, Jun 2004
The urgency addiction
While nobody wakes up in the morning hoping to be filled with stress, overwhelmed with paperwork and e-mail, and to rush around solving other people's crises, people and entire organizations often get caught up in the urgencies of the moment. As a result:
- We never take time to define what we value most
- Without a clear vision of our priorities every e-mail, ringing phone, and interruption becomes the priority
- We spend our days "putting out fires"
- We become addicted to a false sense of heroism
Feel the satisfaction of a meaningful contribution
Most of us long to contribute in meaningful ways and spend our time on things that are important‹not simply urgent. Spending time on the most important things is energizing, exciting, and satisfying.
FOCUS, FranklinCovey's best-selling workshop, will teach you how to break away from the urgency addiction and achieve new heights of success. You'll walk away with a clearer vision of what you want to accomplish in your personal and professional life and a proven system for sticking to your plans each day.
Focus on what's most important
The key to being energized about life is making progress every day toward your goals. In this world-class workshop, you'll learn essential skills for breaking down your goals into manageable tasks. Plus, we'll show you how to use the FranklinCovey Planning System to integrate long-term goals into your daily responsibilities.
Designed for today's fast-paced world
We'll show you the keys to managing the huge volumes of information each of us is flooded with every day. Learn to sort, file, and retrieve all your important information in seconds.
Change the way you see the world in one day
In this powerful one-day training, you'll learn new ways to think about your time, as well as practical processes and effective applications that help you live these lessons. Three sections provide the secret to becoming more focused on your priorities, better organized, and more productive overall.
Workshop Modules
Section 1: The Time Matrix
Understanding the Time Matrix establishes the right mindset to focus on what is most important and distinguish true priorities from mere urgencies.
Section 2: The Productivity Pyramid
We introduce you to our proven planning process for getting the right things done at the right time.
Section 3: The FranklinCovey Planning System and Resource CD-ROM
Translating the correct mindset and planning process into action requires an effective tool and the practical knowledge of how to use it.
One-day Workshop Includes:
- Participant Manual and Tip Sheets. These materials offer outstanding reinforcement of the principles you will learn in the workshop.
- Pre- and Post-workshop Assessments. Take advantage or this powerful tool to measure how well you focus on what is most important to you.
- Resource CD-ROM. This interactive tool will help you design a planning system that works the way you do.
- FranklinCovey Planning System Kit (optional). This complete starter kit contains the essentials for implementing all you'll learn in the workshop.
Workshop Agenda
In the morning
Though the day is packed with learning, we provide enough time in the morning for you to think deeply about the things you value most. We cover the following topics in the first half of the day:
Focusing on the truly important
The Time Matrix
The Productivity Pyramid
Establishing and clarifying values
Setting goals
Aligning goals with priorities
Executing—breaking down goals into key tasks
Weekly and Daily Planning
In the afternoon
The second half of the day is devoted to the "how to" of living by your priorities. Learn how to get the most from a customized planning system by:
Using the planning tools
Prioritizing tasks
Managing information
Overcoming procrastination
Dealing with interruptions
Handling e-mail and voicemail
Creating an action plan
Customizing your action plan and planning system
You'll have time to take advantage of the expertise of our workshop facilitator by asking specific questions about how to apply our planning methods to your unique situation. Plus, the Resource CD-ROM will help you design a customized system that can integrate Microsoft® Outlook®, Palm® handhelds, and more.
Optional: The last hour of the day includes the FranklinCovey Planner and an optional section on showing you how to use the FranklinCovey Planning System. The complete starter kit contains the essentials for implementing all you'll learn earlier in the workshop.
Instructor
Julie Wood is a program coordinator at the UW-Madison Small Business Development Center. Before coming to the SBDC, Julie was director of operations at Oriel Incorporated and a financial software consultant at SVA Consulting. She also started and ran Checks + Balances, Inc., an accounting consulting business. Julie recently completed a M.S. in Educational Communications and Technology from UW-Madison and she is a certified FranklinCovey facilitator for the FOCUS program.
