Join Jeff Anderson and Sean Covey, FranklinCovey’s Chief  Innovations Officer in this 23-minute pre-recorded video webinar, as they discuss five vital time management tips and their relevance in 2010. Jeff also provides some tangible take-away ideas that you can implement now to keep your life organized and be more productive.

In this webinar Jeff will cover:

Bringing 2010 in Focus: Five Vital Time Management Tips

• Giving Importance a Home
• Turning Things into What They Are
• The Brain’s Limitations and Plan Accordingly
• Learning to Focus on the Wildly Important
• Living in QII

Click here to view webinar. What are time management tips are vital to you? We would love to hear from you.

When: Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Time: 3:00 pm ET/2:00 pm CT/1:00 pm MT/Noon PT

Presenter: Dave Green, FranklinCovey Senior Consultant

In this webcast you will learn:           

• How to set goals for the New Year
• How to use Outlook, Lotus Notes, and even the Blackberry the “FranklinCovey way” to spend more time on proactive priorities and less on reactive distractions
• How to plan for and achieve work-life balance
• How to help others (even your children) be better at planning and prioritizing

Join Dave Green for this enlightening session. Dave developed FranklinCovey’s Time Management for Microsoft Outlook webinar course and is one of FranklinCovey’s most popular webinar presenters.

 Please click this link to register for this 1-hour webcast: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/523008432

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 Tip #3: Plan or Perish

If you’re like me, you have multiple projects. Each with dozens of sub-tasks that need to be done “right now.” Right? To get through this jumble of projects you must do one simple thing: plan. It’s as easy as that. It’s no secret. It’s pure and simple common sense. Try out this process and you’ll see for yourself.

• 1. This coming Sunday night, before your work week begins, review your list of tasks.
• 2. Prioritize the ones that are most critical to your team’s goals.
• 3. Identify those tasks that you can easily delegate to others (see my previous post).
• 4. Identify what meetings you have during the week and find tasks that can be accomplished during those time periods.
• 5. Then, every morning, before anyone else comes into the office, take five minutes and review your list. Check off things you’ve done, review the day’s appointments, and adjust your tasks as necessary.

If you’re a user of Microsoft® Outlook® or IBM® Lotus® Notes® you might consider checking out some quick and simple Time Management webinars we offer. They’re only about 1 ½ hours long and will provide some amazing techniques to help teach you how to use these tools while you plan your days.

In my next post, I’ll cover tip #4: “No” is not a four-letter word.

Author: Matt Murdoch, FranklinCovey

 Tip #1: Eliminate Chaos

When everything around you is moving fast it’s hard to get organized. Does this sound like your typical day? You return from one meeting only to go to another and yet another throughout the day; you don’t have time to focus strategically on one project because your time is spread so thin over a dozen; you have three people at your door waiting for a decisions on three different projects.

Unless you gain control over the madness of your days, it will control you. You need to do whatever it takes to prepare yourself for these tornadic days – because they’re not going to stop. You need time management. You need to get organized.

• Come in 30 minutes early and straighten your desk and reply to urgent e-mails: It’s amazing how much quality work you can do when nobody else is in the office.
• Organize your files so you know where everything is: It’s a great feeling to be called into a last minute meeting and be able to grab the appropriate file.
• Block out chunks of your days to ensure you have time to get your work done: I find that I’m most productive on Monday-my brain is fresh and I’m still thinking clearly. After my morning meetings I’ve blocked out a few hours in the afternoon to actually work.
• Take time to help others: You’ll find that when you’re organized, you’ll be better able to help others and help them with things they need.

I’ve learned that when my life is chaotic, I work minute-by-minute. I can’t see the horizon and I start to feel overwhelmed and stressed. So, take some time and eliminate the chaos by getting organized.

 In my next post I’ll talk about Tip #2: Embrace Others

Author: Matt Murdoch, FranklinCovey