The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity

Improve Your Decision, Attention and Energy Management 

The amazing work you do in the office might feel at risk when you have to do it at home. When you’re not sure where to start and frustration sets in, how can you stay productive in a hybrid setting? This program allows you to move on to the practical mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets you can implement to get your highest-quality work done, your highest-quality family time accomplished and ensuring a quality self. 

When we pay attention to the most important things amidst the distractions, we can harness the opportunities and technologies available today and soar to innovative heights. The difference between sinking and soaring is our ability to make wise choices. Backed by science and years of experience, this course will make you more productive and give you an inner sense of fulfillment and accomplishment. 

As a result of this course, you will start making the right choices as you plan your day, week, and life, by aligning tasks with your most important goals. You will move from being buried alive to being extraordinarily productive! 

So, what are the 5 Choices? 

1. Act on the Important; Don’t react to the Urgent 
   In today’s world, there are so many ways to spend your time and energy. Approach each day with an 'importance mindset' and identify and eliminate those activities that distract you from achieving the goals most important to you and your organization. 
    

1. Go for the Extraordinary; Don’t Settle for Ordinary 
   Clearly defining the most important goals in your professional and personal life provides the direction and motivation necessary for achieving extraordinary results. Define extraordinary outcomes for your roles which will help you focus your efforts to measure day-to-day decisions. 
    

1. Schedule the Big Rocks; Don’t Sort Gravel 
   Consistently planning activities around 'most important outcomes' creates a pattern of focus and success. Create weekly and daily plans which will produce extraordinary outcomes.  
    

1. Rule Your Technology; Don’t Let it Rule You 
   Building reliable email, task, calendaring, contacts, and notes processes to support achieving important outcomes is essential to the ability to focus. Make use of rules to maximize the use of platforms like Microsoft Outlook® when building a reliable personal information system. 
    
2. Fuel Your Fire; Don’t Burn Out 
   Constantly and consistently renewing yourself ensures there will be plenty of energy throughout the day to focus on important activities. Create a plan that will ignite your body’s mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual energy.

3. Course format 

   This course consists of two 3.5-hour sessions divided over 2 days. 

   How you will benefit: 

   • Build your hybrid work muscle 
     Identify the hybrid work issues that make you feel overwhelmed and emotional, and what you can do to gain some control to accomplish quality work, family, and self. 
   • Prioritize quality through high-value decisions 
     Understand how to intentionally prioritize all of the “incoming,” and then pause, clarify, and decide to get the greatest return on quality relationships and personal and professional accomplishments. 
   • Focus your attention 
     Learn to create your space, organize your stuff, and execute effectively through weekly/daily planning… in the midst of many distractions at home. 
   • Manage your energy to execute on quality of life 
     Identify energy drains and best-practice gains to give your best quality to yourself, your family, and colleagues. 
   • Plan for success 
     Commit to two to three things you can do to stay focused, be productive, and maintain momentum in all key areas while working in a hybrid setup. 

   What you receive: 

   • The 5 Choices benchmark 
     A quick 26-question assessment that provides data on your personal productivity and shows you how you compare with others around the world.  
   • Digital workbook  
     A manual designed with examples and exercises that continue to enhance the learning process after the workshop is over. 
   • Digital Technical Guide for Microsoft Outlook 
   • 5-Week Quickstart 
     Your plan to immediately apply the 5 Choices and begin creating extraordinary productivity in your work and life. 

   Who should attend: 

   This fast paced and interactive work session is not just for the newly minted hybrid team member, but for all business professionals at all levels who want tools to maximize productivity and achieve extraordinary results in a hybrid work environment.