How To Get More Organized

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Detailed Overview/Outline

The ability to organize is a skill not unlike the ability to supervise, delegate or use a computer. It can be learned, practiced and perfected. This seminar will show you how. Attend, and you'll learn how to meet deadlines without working yourself to death ... gain more control over paperwork ... and get more done in less time every day.

After this six-hour session, you'll walk away with the skills you need to break time-wasting habits, bring order to your chaotic work schedule and reduce everyday stress. As a result, you'll be able to claim more time for yourself - and stay fully focused on key business tasks.

Who Should Attend

For business professionals who want to develop a more focused, organized, effective work style and reclaim the personal time lost to working overtime.

How You Will Benefit

• Break time-wasting habits
• Bring order to a chaotic work life
• Reduce everyday stress and frustrations
• Claim more time for yourself

What You Will Cover

• The secret to remembering details
• The 2 basic organizational styles and how to maximize each
• Are bad habits sabotaging your day? A 10-point checklist
• How to keep your in-box under control
• 6 types of lists that can safeguard your sanity
• Do you cause your own confusion? How to determine if you do
• How to remember things without covering your desk with sticky notes
• Feel like a pack rat? Deciding what to keep and what to throw away
• A powerful technique that will help you stay "together" during high-pressure, high-stress periods
• Pinpointing your organizational weak spots
• 3 great work habits worth developing
• Goal-setting - it's more than just a to-do list
• The first step toward a more effective work style
• A simple strategy that will keep you completely focused on the job at hand
• The most common cause of disorder and how to overcome it
• The deadliest trap busy managers fall into and how you can avoid it
• What to do when you feel other things are more important than cleaning off your desk
• Recognizing and eliminating your tendency to be a perfectionist
• Invaluable strategies for organizing your staff
• The system top managers use to arrange their workdays
• Plotting the day's work: Determining what's urgent ... what can wait ... and what you can let go
• Time-blocking - what it is and how it can help you get more done
• 4 practically effortless exercises that can help improve your memory
• 5 pieces of office equipment no manager should be without
• Maintaining order when your job responsibilities continue to grow
• Hate making lists? Here's a superb technique that will work just as well
• The D.I.N. strategy that all organized managers swear by
• How to stop waking up at night, worrying that you've let something "slip through the cracks"
• A technique for keeping details pulled together on even the busiest days
• A good motto to work by (watch your personal productivity soar)
• 5 ways managers defeat themselves when delegating work
• Why downtime is important ... and how to build it into your schedule
• The critical difference between a cluttered desk and one that's messy: How does yours measure up?

Sponsor Background:
Since 1977, Padgett-Thompson has been providing popular, skill-building training that dramatically improves the way people work. Whether you're needing training through our public seminars, online training, books, tapes and software -- or you want us to bring it directly to your place of business through our Padgett-Thompson On-site division -- you can be sure you're receiving the latest in business strategy, best practices, and skill-building information.

But through it all, no matter how far we've gone or how fast we've grown, we still operate on the same principles stated by our founders -- provide the highest quality training at reasonable prices and back it up with a 100 percent guarantee. If you're not happy with your training, you get your registration fee back. It's what's made us the most trusted training company in the industry.

We invite you to take a look around our site and experience what Padgett-Thompson customers have known for years: You will achieve more with us!

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