The Info-Excellence™ Seminar
Email Efficiency & Etiquette Module

Module Benefits:

• Cut email time by 20%
• Write better messages
• When to use email vs. vmail vs. IM, etc.
• Reduce inbox clutter, stress, and liability
• Boost image, sales, and performance

Tell Me More:

1. Over 6,000 participants to date
2. Innovative exercises, best practices, and tech tips from the authors of The Hamster Revolution
3. Live, virtual, solo, and team options
4. Fun, fast, and effective.

What To Do Next?

1. Request 15 minute on-line demo and receive a FREE email efficiency lesson
2. Read a Capital One case study in which participants saved 14 days per year
3. Contact Time's Up for a complete course description, metrics, and references

Measurable, Sustained Results

Professionals from over 25 Fortune 500 companies have experienced Email Efficiency & Etiquette. 60 day post-training assessments revealed:

1. Email volume declined by 20%
2. Email quality improved by 50%
3. 95% agree that the workshop helped them to become more productive
4. 90% would recommend the workshop to all co-workers

One year follow-up surveys have demonstrated that these results were sustained over time.

Email Assessment Tool: Offering a powerful and proven email survey tool that enables our clients to measure the positive impact of our ground-breaking seminars.

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Build Your Corporate Goals on a Strong Foundation
The GO System helps people find things when they need them and, more importantly, helps them stay focused on high priorities. It lays the strong foundation that's necessary for your employees to successfully achieve your business goals and initiatives. With the GO System, people will:

Improve their ability to focus and concentrate
Gain more control over their workload
Easily and quickly prioritize their workload
Get more done in less time
Increase their contribution to the bottom-line results of your organization

Karen provides specific, practical ideas on how to deal with each of these issues during the training session.

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Are you debating taking your office paperless? Before you do, consider another solution, for a fraction of the cost.

If you could find anything in your office in 5 seconds or less, would you reconsider? We can help you change your environment in a day. Yes we can perform a miracle in a day

We will come in and do the implementation of Kiplinger’s Paper Tiger with you guiding us.  Just think of starting with a clean desk and a system in place to keep you organized. Miracles do happen and we can help.

Here is just a partial listing of some Keynote or Break-out sessions,

Staying Organized, on a day-to-day basis: We can’t jeopardize our personal time with our family once our professional life ends at 5:00. How can you handle the everyday influx of mail, kids paperwork, reading and keeping the kitchen counter cleaned?

Customer and Client Perception:  In today’s fast-paced business world, the completion is tough and customers don’t have the time or patience for disorganized businesses. Preparing your staff to become more focused and productive will ensure chaos will turn into calm, making the first impression that will last.

E-Mail: We can’t stop it but we can control the fungus of e-mail overload. I can show you ways to keep your e-mail inbox empty at all times as well as be able to find any e-mail when you need it. Including tips on Outlook will be included.

• 30 minutes minimum to 75-minute sessions
• Discounts provided for kits, books and software
• Travel and out-of-pocket charged at actual cost

Taking a project from start to finish in a controlled manner: This workshop will guide you through an easy to use program: Project KickStart it is simple to use project-planning software for small to medium sized projects. It focuses on planning a project, creating a project schedule, and making it easy to manage.

This powerful, but easy to use planning tool that helps you brainstorm, plan and schedule any project. We will guide you through 8-step planning process focuses your attention on the structure of the project, the goals, resources, risks and strategic issues critical to your project's success. You'll drag and drop hints from Libraries of Goals, Phases and Obstacles and get tips along the way from a helpful (and knowledgeable) "Advisor". Your plan is ready in 30 minutes!

Included in the workshop is the Gantt Chart Software, simple Gantt chart provides a visual timeline for scheduled tasks, assignments and project status. It is easy to move items around and it's visually appealing. Few project management tools offer this level of sophistication and ease.

If you have a laptop bring it. Included in the workshop is the software, you will walk away with your project already started and ready to continue when you get back to the office.

Mind Mapping

In the course of the day we are constantly making decisions and need an effective way to analysis them. Let me introduce you to our series of Mind Mapping Workshops: Mind Maps are tools, which help you think and learn. Mind Mapping (or Brainstorming) is a practical and easy way to stimulate and unlock the potential that your brain has.
Mind Mapping is a graphical technique that uses words, images, numbers and colors to help you gather information and remember it. Brainstorming is a useful and popular tool that you can use to develop highly creative solutions to a problem.

It is particularly useful when you need to break out of stale, established patterns of thinking, so that you can develop new ways of looking at things. This can be when you need to develop new opportunities, where you want to improve the service that you offer, or when existing approaches just aren't giving you the results you want.

Brainstorming is particularly useful when used with your team: Here it helps you bring the experience of all team members into play during problem solving.

This increases the richness of solutions explored (meaning that you can find better solutions to the problems you face, and make better decisions.) It can also help you get buy in from team members for the solution chosen - after all, they have helped shape that solution.

Join us for a series of workshops that will start with the basic understanding to more advanced techniques using computer software that can be exported to take your ideas into implementation and the start of your projects.

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This is the beginning of the series, where you will learn to set up the software and navigate your way around the process. Backed by Mind Tools, discover the essential skills and techniques that help you excel in your career - whatever your profession. Learn leadership, personal effectiveness, goal setting, and stress management. Further, discover techniques that improve creativity, assist problem solving, organize time and deadlines, and improve your memory.
Learn how easy it is to get started.

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Brainstorming is a powerful way of developing many creative solutions to a problem. It works by focusing on a problem, and then coming up with very many radical solutions to it. Ideas should deliberately be as broad and odd as possible, and should be developed as fast as possible. It’s important not to critique ideas until the end of a brainstorming session because, often, highly creative and practical solutions can emerge from seemingly stupid suggestions. Join us for this powerful workshop.

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Traditional decision-making is often profoundly flawed. We’ve seen this time and again on a large scale with the launch of eye-catching political initiatives, which then “crashed and burned” on a spectacular scale and at great cost. On a lesser scale, we see this in naive optimism, wasted opportunities, and retrospectively foolish actions.
What is tragic is that often these decisions are taken for the best of reasons, but faults in decision analysis and poor team dynamics mean that key facts are overlooked.

And when good people champion these flawed decisions, quite often their careers (and the careers of those around them) are wrecked. This makes good decision analysis fundamentally important in a successful career.

Edward de Bono’s “Six Thinking Hats” technique is an important technique for giving decisions the robust scrutiny they need. By asking decision makers to look at the decision “wearing different hats”, it moves them out of habitual perspectives and approaches, helps them break free of group thinking, and helps them look at decisions rigorously and “in the round”.

Impact Analysis is a useful and seriously under-used brainstorming technique that helps you think through the impact of a proposed change on an organization.

Carrying out an Impact Analysis is an essential part of the evaluation process for major decisions. More than this it helps you spot problems before they arise, so that you can plan how to manage them and prepare contingency plans to handle issues as they arise. This can make the difference between smooth and seemingly effortless project management, and an implementation that is seen by your boss, team, clients and peers as a shambles.

Impact Analysis is traditionally conducted with notepads, flipcharts or whiteboards being used to collate information. People come up with relevant, important ideas, but these ideas are often forgotten in the jumble of information gathered. The structure of information is not clear, and it is often impossible to see any links between effects let alone causal ones.

As a result, many Impact Analysis sessions don’t go as well as they could. Often there is little action, because there is no clear path to follow in the gathered information, and hence no route from idea to action.