The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity seminar draws on accumulated wisdom and best practices developed over decades by productivity leaders and researchers. This FranklinCovey program, presented through AMA, equips you with essential systems and approaches to enhance workplace productivity and performance.
For many professionals, career demands can feel overwhelming and intense. Layer in the constant stream of information and competing priorities, and work can become exhausting and stressful. Without thoughtful, intentional responses to these pressures, our capacity for clear thinking and wise decision-making diminishes, and our most meaningful professional and personal goals suffer, get delayed, or remain unachieved altogether.
This productivity seminar integrates modern cognitive science research with time-tested productivity methods to help you manage your decisions, focus, and personal energy more effectively. You'll acquire and apply a systematic approach that leverages Microsoft Outlook® to significantly expand your ability to achieve meaningful results through deliberate choices that generate exceptional value for you and your organization. This method not only produces measurable gains in productivity but also fosters renewed feelings of engagement, fulfillment, and professional satisfaction.
For optimal learning outcomes, please bring your laptop to participate in hands-on, technology-integrated exercises throughout the program.
Target Participants:
Professionals at all career levels who are seeking practical systems and methodologies to boost productivity and accomplish significant goals.
Benefits You'll Realize:
- Incorporate current brain health research into your daily work practices to improve productivity
- Develop shared language and frameworks with colleagues regarding priority setting and importance
- Achieve sustainable equilibrium between professional responsibilities and personal life commitments
- Build a customized system for defining and managing your most important professional goals
- Gain control of technology and prevent technology from controlling your time
Curriculum and Learning Areas:
Choice 1: Prioritize the important and minimize time on the urgent
- Develop judgment about what truly matters versus what feels urgent but isn't
- Teach colleagues the frameworks and vocabulary of importance-based planning
Choice 2: Pursue extraordinary results instead of accepting ordinary outcomes
- Define what extraordinary accomplishment looks like in each of your important roles
- Set specific, measurable targets to accomplish your most significant role goals
Choice 3: Plan and schedule major priorities rather than handling minor tasks
- Perfect weekly planning techniques to surface, schedule, and accomplish high-value priorities
- Develop daily planning disciplines that ensure focus, resources, and daily accomplishment
Choice 4: Control your technology rather than allowing technology to control you
- Create a personalized system for organizing appointments, action items, contacts, and information
- Optimize Outlook® capabilities to streamline your productivity workflow
Choice 5: Nurture your energy and avoid exhaustion
- Recognize how cognitive wellness affects your productivity and daily effectiveness
- Implement the 5 Energy Management Strategies to maintain sustained energy and focus
Special Program Features
PRE-COURSE ASSESSMENT
After enrolling, you'll access an online 26-question diagnostic assessment measuring your current productivity practices and habits. After completing the program, you'll retake the assessment to track your growth and development.
COURSE MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
- Comprehensive Participant Workbook
- Practical Outlook® Implementation Handbook
- The 5 Choices: reference guide with integrated journal
- Supplemental Learning: three digital video modules with companion resources
Program Structure
Key Learning Outcomes
- Integrate Neuroscience Findings on Brain Function into Your Daily Work Practices
- Establish Shared Language with Your Team Around Urgency and Importance
- Create and Maintain Lasting Work-Life Integration and Balance
- Build a Customized System for Managing Your Most Important Goals and Priorities
- Master Technology Tools and Systems Rather Than Being Mastered by Them
