When: Friday, April 30, 2010
Time: 1:00 p.m. ET/12:00 p.m. CT/11:00 a.m. MT/10:00 a.m. PT
Presenter: Chris McChesney, FranklinCovey National Execution Leader
Cost: Complimentary

What if everyone in the organization had a narrow, laser focus on the one or two things that have to happen to get you through hard times and emerge stronger? In fact, research shows that companies who are making it have “simple goals repeatedly revisited, together with clear targets and strong follow through, including the measurement of results.” – (IBM Study 2009)

Attend an overview on FranklinCovey’s The 4 Disciplines of Execution, the most powerful methodology available today for translating business strategy into laser-focused action. No matter how effective your current methods, applying these disciplines will take the performance of your organization to a new level.  The 4 Disciplines of Execution are a simple, powerful method for helping organizations EXECUTE in the midst of a whirlwind of competing priorities. 

If you think only your organization struggles to get things done, think again.  In this webcast, you’ll learn the fundamental reasons execution breaks down and how common these conditions are in most organizations.  We’ll share four breakthrough disciplines that will help you identify your wildly important goals, and the simple steps you can take every day to achieve them.  We’ll show you how to leverage your leaders and managers to become execution experts and how to tap into and harness your people’s commitment and passions to achieve your highest goals and priorities.

Register at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/131517600

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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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The answer: Don’t ask them to do more with less.

Instead, ask them to do less of what doesn’t matter and more of what does matter.

Morale has little to do with how hard people work or how tough the job is. People will do extraordinary things and work incredibly hard if they feel their contribution matters. Most of the day job consists of carrying out tasks that somebody has to do. If one person now has to do the tasks of two people, you’re obviously going to burn out that one person. Instead, re-think those two jobs. Which tasks truly add value for the customer? Which don’t? Are you asking people to spend time and energy on things that don’t matter much just because they’ve always been done that way?

Talk with the employee about it. What does the person really want to contribute? What does that person think his or her customer really wants? Then start shedding tasks that interfere with those things.

An emergency nurse in a Chicago hospital who found herself all at once trying to manage one bleeding patient, another who was having a heart attack, and another who couldn’t breathe—well, she quit. Who can blame her? Some situations are just ludicrous.

But another nurse, Angela Crawford, moved back to her homeland of Barbados after many years working in a Canadian hospital. There she found incredibly overworked nurses. But after selling hospital administrators on the continuous improvement philosophy she had learned in Canada, every nursing procedure went under scrutiny. Mentors were assigned to new nurses. Procedures were simplified and bettered. She has sponsored health fairs and other methods for preventing disease, thus reducing the workload.

Today Angela is president of the Barbados Registered Nurses Association. She is known as “the nurse who transformed the Barbados health care system” and eased the heavy burdens of hundreds of her co-workers. 

None of this was in Angela’s job description. Like Angela, you can use your own resources and initiative to help your people do more of what matters and less of what doesn’t. And then watch morale rocket upwards.

How can you start to do less of what doesn’t matter and more of what does matter? What else is going on in your organization? We’d like to hear from you.

You can find these and other ideas for thriving in this challenging new era in our book Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times.

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