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Some representative consulting packages are described below:
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| | Three Dimensional Productivity Assessment –
How do organization and productivity translate to and support your success? We answer the question with a customized assessment. Through a questionnaire, observation and interview, we examine three areas of your personal productivity:
| | - your physical environment,
- how you organize your projects and schedule your day,
- the mental aspects of your productivity, including clarity of purpose, focus and attention, decision-making skills, and organized thinking.
| | After evaluating your vision of success, together we determine what the obstacles are, commit the appropriate resources, select the right tools and create an implementation plan. You will have a written summary of our findings, recommendations and a "next actions" plan.
To schedule your assessment, call us at 302-521-6941, or email us at info@BallantraeSolutions.com | |
Clearing the Decks -- Makeover Strategies for Controlling Office Clutter
Does your workspace inspire you to achieve, trigger your creative energy and give you the freedom to focus? Or does is distract you, maybe even depress you?
The first step in improving productivity is often to clear the decks. Office clutter, a messy desk, mind-numbing stacks and piles, scraps of paper and curled-up sticky notes, over-stuffed file drawers and crammed supply areas are highly distracting, energy draining, stress producing obstacles to efficiency.
We fix the problems before they become epidemic, and leave you with strategies to maintain a more effective space to work.
To schedule your hands-on consultation to create a more effective workspace, call us at 302-521-6941, or email us at Info@BallantraeSolutions.com | |
The 8-hour Miracle (tm): Strategies for Paper and Records--
Research shows that corporate executives and managers lose on average 150 hours a year looking for misplaced or misfiled items, at a staggering cost to the bottom line.
Many filing systems exist to manage paper, but the best of them blend together the lightning fast processing power of the computer with the methodology of traditional filing practices. Computers are unsurpassed at cataloging, sorting and indexing information, and traditional taxonomies (filing rules) provide tried and true fundamentals of naming and categorizing.
Combine the two effectively (with a system for purging and archiving!) and you have a filing system that accurately tracks everything on your radar screen, and locates any information you need in less than 5 seconds, all customized and adapted to your work style and corporate requirements, in just one day --
Ask me how!
Or click here to learn more about how The 8-Hour Miracle (tm) works.
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The GO System: Strategy for an Effective Follow-up System –
This productivity tool, the centerpiece of our GO System Workshop, tracks date-related paper items and simplifies workflow.
As an adjunct to your personal planning and scheduling tools, The GO System (GO for “Get Organized”) allows for a streamlined focus on items that require on-going review or action. The model we adapt for our clients reminds them to carry out important tasks -- phone calls to make, letters to send, reports to complete, gifts or cards to buy and mail, information to respond to, pass along or take action on.
Using a calendar and a follow-up system you can trust as part of a time-management routine is one of the best ways to eliminate endless hours looking for misplaced papers and to stay on top of the workload rather than getting buried by it.
Check the dates for the next GO System Training or ask me how to set up an effective follow-up system for you!
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E-Organizing: Strategies for Electronic Information –
Finding what you need when you need it can be a challenge with paper files. But what about finding information in the digital age? Electronic organizing has its own headaches, especially when important information you need is contained in so many different formats – email, web pages, documents, databases, charts and spreadsheets.
We help you solve those electronic organizing challenges and provide effective strategies and tools to find what you need -- and get rid of what you don’t need – on your computer, without the drastic step of printing it all out and storing it in paper-based filing systems! We teach you a “triage” approach to processing email, set up a filing structure for important documents, implement search and retrieval processes, help you set up personal information portals and electronic notebooks, and get you organized electronically. We work with Outlook, Lotus Notes, ACT! Contact Manager, desktop search tools, and more!
To tackle your electronic organizing challenges, call us at 302-521-6941, or email us at info@BallantraeSolutions.com | |
Coaching in Focus Management
Achieving goals requires sustained focus on the desired outcome, according to current studies in attention research as it relates to business and personal productivity. And neurological research has shown that one unit of focused time is equal to four units of distracted focus. We can accomplish as much work in 10 minutes with concentration as we could in 40 minutes of jumping from task to task. So why do we keep trying to multi-task when it’s so inefficient?
Working with a methodology developed by the makers of Time/Design Systems and the processes defined by productivity guru David Allen, we help you free your mind, get clarity about goals and desired outcomes, concentrate on just the next action, and make significant inroads on your workload. The results can remove that “overwhelming” feeling and help you overcome procrastination, inertia, and other behaviors that sabotage your projects and goals.
To learn more about our Focus Management coaching, call us at 302-521-6941, or email us at info@BallantraeSolutions.com | |
Organized Thinking with Mind Mapping --
The innovative approach to thinking and learning called “Mind Mapping” is sweeping through schools and educational institutions, as a literal approach to “Thinking Outside of the Box,” and helps people who struggle with traditional linear thinking open up new and productive realms of creativity.
Mind mapping is an especially powerful tool for visual learners, and particularly good at organizing thoughts and information for planning, projects, speeches and talks, writing projects, courses, task management, and brainstorming. The potential applications for mind mapping are endless.
If you feel mentally “stuck” with any project, ask us how to implement this approach to dramatically increase your productivity. We’ll teach you the process, suggest resources, and coach you in best practices to get “unstuck” and experience amazing breakthroughs in your thinking process.
To learn more about mindmapping, check out our online training in the mindmapping concept and techniques>>
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