Overview
Challenge
The barrage of information coming at us from multiple sources (e.g., texts, email, tweets, blogs, and alerts), coupled with the demands of our careers, are overwhelming and distracting. The sheer volume of information threatens our ability to think clearly and make wise decisions about what’s important. If we react to these stimuli without clear discernment, we fail to accomplish the goals that matter most in our professional and personal lives.
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Solution
Five Choices to Achieve Extraordinary Productivity solution inspires participants to apply a process that will dramatically increase their ability to achieve life’s most important outcomes. Supported by science and years of experience, this solution not only produces, a measurable increase in productivity, but also provides a renewed sense of engagement and accomplishment.
Key Takeaways
- Understand how to break barriers to realize your potential
- Learn tips to target each day’s most important priorities
- Master Microsoft Outlook or Gmail to manage productivity
- Learn to make more selective, high-impact choices about where to invest your valuable time, attention, and energy
This course covers 5 Choices:
Act on the Important, Don’t React to the Urgent®
Discern the important from the urgent and increase your ability to focus in the midst of fierce distractions
Go For Extraordinary, Don’t Settle for Ordinary®
Guide your decision-making through a framework of what success looks like in your most important roles.
Schedule the Big Rocks, Don’t Sort Gravel®
Use tips and tools to schedule your priorities instead of prioritizing your schedule . Execute with excellence on the most important things.
Rule Your Technology, Don’t Let it Rule You®
Make your technology work for you, not against you, and turn it into a productivity engine.
Fuel Your Fire, Don’t Burn Out®
Increase your energy to think clearly, make good decisions, and feel more accomplished at the end of every day.
Registration
Location: TBD
Schedule: 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Dates: TBD
Fees: $359
Instructor
Julie Wood
Julie Wood was the Program Manager at the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center at UW-Madison for many years. 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 holds a M.S. in Educational Communications and Technology from UW-Madison and is a certified FranklinCovey facilitator