5 Choices Brochure by Leadership Consulting Group

Extraordinary Productivity

The 5Choices Solution The 5Choices to Extraordinary Productivity process measurably increases productivity of individuals, teams, and organizations. Participants make more selective, high-impact choices about where to invest their valuable time, attention, and energy.

ACT ON THE IMPORTANT

GO FOR EXTRAORDINARY

SCHEDULE THE BIG ROCKS

RULE YOUR TECHNOLOGY

FUEL YOUR FIRE

DON’T REACT TO THE URGENT

DON’T SETTLE FOR ORDINARY

DON’T SORT GRAVEL

DON’T LET IT RULE YOU

DON’T BURN OUT

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Act on the Important

don’t react to the urgent

go for extraordinary

don’t settle for ordinary

Schedule the big rocks

don’t sort gravel

Rule your technology

don’t let it rule you

Fuel your fire

don’t burn out

In today’s world, people are drowning in email, overwhelmed with demands, and trying to do more with less. 5Choices participants filter the vitally important priorities from distractions so they can focus on making a real contribution. Everyone wants to make a difference, but competing priorities often prevent them from achieving extraordinary results. 5Choices participants redefine their roles in terms of extraordinary results to achieve high-priority goals. The crushing increase in workday pressures can make people feel helpless and out of control. 5Choices participants regain control of their work and lives through a cadence of planning and execution that produces extraordinary outcomes. An electronic avalanche of email, texts, and social-media alerts seriously threaten productivity as never before. 5Choices participants leverage their technology and fend off distractions by optimizing platforms like Microsoft® Outlook® to boost productivity. Today’s exhausting, high-pressure work environment burns people out at an alarming rate. Applying the 5 Energy Drivers™, participants benefit from the latest in brain science to consistently recharge their mental and physical energy.

Challenge

Solution

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.

FranklinCovey’s The 5Choices to 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.

The 5Choices Process Assessment

Learning

Implementation

2-Day Work Session

5-Week Quickstart Commitments

Reassessment

Report Session

5Choices Benchmark

Participant Kit TECHNICAL GUIDE Microsoft® Outlook® Edition

“Extraordinary productivity is not about time management, it’s about managing your decisions, attention, and energy.” —Leigh Stevens

OFFICE

NIRVANA Find Peace and Productivity in Your Workspace

BONUS MODULE

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The Next of Generation Productivity

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BONUS MODULE

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5CHOICES PLANNER

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Become extraordinary

TAKE-HOME

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5Choices website Access assessments and instructions on how to apply the content to smartphones, tablets, and Web-based applications such as Google Apps.®

Participant Guidebook Technical Guide Instructions on how to maximize use of Microsoft® Outlook,® Lotus Notes,® Google Apps,® etc.

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5Choices Planner App Carry your productivity in your pocket.

WILDLY IMPORTANT GOALS Chris McChesney, Execution Practice Leader, FranklinCovey

The 5Choices Monograph

OFFICE NIRVANA Julie Morgenstern, Productivity Strategist, The New York Times Best-Selling Author

Notebook

Take-Home Tools DVD

BRAIN-CARE BASICS Dr. Daniel Amen, Brain Expert, The New York Times Best-Selling Author

Choose to Give your organization the tools and skills to become extraordinary. For more information about FranklinCovey’s The 5Choices to Extraordinary Productivity, contact your client partner or call 1-888-705-1776. You may also visit www.the5choices.com.

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The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity—Two-Day Work-Session Outline TIMELINE

CONTENT

PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

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ChOICE 1

• Consciously discern the important from the urgent or less important.

Act on the Important, Don’t React to the Urgent

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ChOICE 2 Go for Extraordinary, Don’t Settle for Ordinary

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ChOICE 3 Schedule the Big Rocks, Don’t Sort Gravel

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ChOICE 4 Rule Your Technology, Don’t Let It Rule You

• Teach others the language and methodology of importance for clear alignment. • Clarify what extraordinary looks like in their current, most important roles. • Define and execute measurable goals to achieve role outcomes.

• Master weekly planning processes to identify, schedule, and execute on high-impact priorities. • Master daily planning processes to ensure attention, energy, and execution on the high-impact priorities. • Design a personalized, reliable system to manage all incoming: appointments, tasks, contacts, notes, and documents. • Turn Outlook® or Lotus Notes® into a productivity workflow engine to achieve high-impact priorities. • Identify applications that will help, not hinder, productivity.

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ChOICE 5 Fuel Your Fire, Don’t Burn Out

• Understand the impact of brain health on day-to-day performance. • Use the 5 Energy Drivers to increase and sustain energy throughout the day to accomplish and enjoy high-impact priorities.

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PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK “Before taking the 5 Choices Webinar, my inbox had over 7,000 e-mails, my tasks list was a mess of red flags, and my calendar wasn’t really a calendar, but ANOTHER “To Do List”. After the webinar, my inbox remains at zero. I’ve got folders to keep my e-mails, my task list is organized with actual tasks/due dates/detailed descriptions, and my calendar is what it should be, a calendar.” “I have started exercising more and eating better and taking time out when I need to. I’m also reconnecting with people. Being with those who matter to me is very important and completely energizes me.” “I just finished my re-assessment and saw a big difference. I didn’t think I could improve much from my original score, but I was very wrong. Huge improvement across the board. Thank you for the excellent insights into being more effective at work and in life!” “This course is the perfect balance of personal and career-oriented improvement. It demonstrates how the two affect one another and how both require attention.” “Great education on the use of Outlook, putting priorities and activities into appropriate quadrants, how best to manage them, and how I can better use technology. Great ideas around how to deal with stress and other energy drivers. Many good ideas to help me as a future multi-unit leader on how I can help the general manager be more productive. “The course provides key foundations in time-management skills along with practical tips, tools, and resources to boost productivity. I learned to identify key personal and professional roles, which provide great motivation to be better and become extraordinary.” “It is very applicable to real life and to work experiences. Even though many practices that I already utilize were refreshed, I was able to identify methods to strengthen those practices.” “I appreciated the practical tips for scheduling, organizing, and using Outlook. Also, I liked the mix of discussion and videos. The course materials are absolutely top-notch.” “I think in a busy work environment, as most employees work, it is important to have a course like this help to realize and assist in time management.” “The program was very exact. I will be able to apply these principles in my professional life and personal life. I feel it will make things go smoother and I can be more productive on both levels.” “Excellent alignment to the 7 Habits and Leadership system. Great tips for using Outlook. I love the Technical Guide.” “Thought the training was excellent and included immediate ways to implement. (Ultimately this will change my behavior.)”

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SUCCESS STORIES “I am a firm believer in the concept or maxim that major success is the result of many minor successes (and, as this is real life, many minor failures or ‘lessons’ along the way).” “I have been able to clarify for myself and my team the vital few Quadrant 2 initiatives we need to be spending our efforts and energy on this year, and refocus other activities to reduce and hopefully eliminate Quadrant 4 waste.” “I set up rules for my Outlook mailbox, have learned and started to apply lessons using Tasks and (on my iPod) Reminders, have integrated the simple techniques for pasting emails into tasks and my calendar to schedule preparation time and ensure on-time completion, and have availed of Notes on the iPod, linking with Reminders and Tasks, to improve my productivity and responsiveness.” “I shared my few recently gained tips with my team and a couple of colleagues and they, too, were excited and motivated to learn some simple techniques that could improve their productivity and simplify their working life.” “I have a lot more to learn, but simply applying the little I have learned in the past few days has already delivered benefits.” “So, having started out on this initial five week journey a mere three days ago, you would be forgiven for thinking to yourself, ‘How has he the gall to talk about success so soon?’ Rather than thinking of success, which is so often fleeting, I would prefer to say I think I have made some progress. Having participated in or sponsored training in the 7 Habits, the Proactive Leader, Great Leaders, and the 4 Disciplines of Execution within the past 12 months, I will admit substantial elements of the 5 Choices were already familiar to me. The session was extremely useful however, both as a ‘Sharpen the Saw’ exercise and as a stimulus to improve my digital work life.” “After getting started and trying to define goals and strategies, I soon discovered the importance of involving my boss, my co-worker(s), and even my spouse. It is clear that it is possible to define things for yourself you seldom can see the forest through the trees. I highly recommend including others in your decisions, not unlike real life, in order to achieve the really extraordinary!” “I’ve always considered myself an organized person. The nature of my work requires order, planning, and organization, since I work with money: payments, deposits, payrolls, etc.” “By attending the 5 Choices, I found that extra help I needed. I found the right tools to keep my day-byday always updated and controlled.” “It has given me great results in my professional life, my personal life, and my personal health.”

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“It seems I have found that little extra time every day for those things I couldn’t do because I felt the day was too short and 24 hours were not enough.” “I’m in my third week and I can say that it really works!”

“I just finished my reassessment and saw a big difference. I didn’t think I could improve much from my original score, but I was very wrong. I saw huge improvement across the board. This is a great tool for increasing productivity, and I’ve been incorporating aspects of the program into my daily routines. Thank you for the excellent insights into being more effective at work and in life!”

“It was such a blessing to simply hear the metaphor ‘schedule the Big Rocks.’ Those are my non-negotiables. They help me learn to say, ‘No!’ without feeling guilty (or afraid of retaliation!). Those big rocks are vital to my work and home life. Every day now, I write down three to five big rocks, and if I can get two of those done, I have accomplished more than I would have had I never scheduled them to begin with. Big Rocks are awesome!”

“I stopped by ‘acting and reacting’ and thought for a while and asked myself, ‘Was I more into acting to reacting?’ Honestly, I was more into reacting and getting myself imposed to react with the urgency of others’ demands (in work and personal life even).”

“Following the Time Matrix principle has given me the chance to quit a bad habit that upsets my family. I really managed to keep my laptop at the office over the weekend.”

“After defining my Quadrant 2 Roles and really thinking about what was important in my life, I started looking at how I spent my evenings. I noticed (and so did my wife) that I spent a considerable amount of time on the computer or my smartphone. This often meant less time with my family. Realizing that this was not in line with my Q2 Role relating to being a great husband and father I decided to cancel the data plan on my phone and reduce the time on the computer at home. (I can hear the gasps from many of you because I’ve heard them from my co-workers already… How can he not survive without a smartphone?!)

“I still remember that, for the first couple of days when there was downtime, I’d reach for my smartphone to check email or read my favorite blogs, only to realize that I was no longer ‘connected.’ Habits that had been formed over the past few years would not easy break. It also has been slightly challenging getting used to not having the ‘convenience’ of having data at my fingertips. I’ve had to print out maps, call people rather than email/texting, and often go without information at times.

“Well it’s been a few weeks and I am still alive! Actually, I’ve found I have much more time to spend with my children and our relationships have greatly improved. I notice that I pay more attention to people around me at work or around town. I also notice how many people have their heads buried in technology as they go from one place to another, not noticing people around them. I don’t think I’ll forever be without a data plan… but this has definitely been a good exercise about disconnecting from technology and reconnecting with reality. It has greatly helped to refuel my fire and refocus my life around what I feel is important.”