Research has shown that even though we check our email and keep massive phone lists on Blackberries and Treos, most people still prefer to write to-do lists and take notes on paper.  Handhelds are great for portability, but they’re not configured for extensive note-taking.  It’s simply too difficult to type with your thumbs.  Thus, handheld users tend to be disorganized and messy, with sticky notes and scraps of paper everywhere.  Day-Timer® to the rescue!  Renowned productivity expert and motivational speaker, Laura Stack, designed The Productivity Pro® Day-Timer® planning system to work with handheld electronics, not against them.  Her planner is even more essential for traditional users who don’t own a handheld.  Laura based this unique planner design on her proven productivity principles, developed from 20 years of research and presentations at Fortune 500 companies. 

Now for the first time, Day-Timers is offering in partnership with Laura Stack a full-day seminar designed to help you learn to use your planner (of any type), along with your handheld, paper piles, email, voicemail, and tasks.  Integrate the various disjointed pieces of your life into one seamless, cohesive system!

Workshop Objectives

• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of handhelds and paper.

• Design a hybrid system that combines the best of both worlds and works most effectively with your personality and work situation.

• Keep email, your handheld, paper files, and your Productivity Pro® planner in sync.

• Get things out of your head and into your trusted system.

• Realize how time management has changed and how to realistically schedule your day in an uncontrollable workplace.

• Prioritize activities quickly and easily, even when you have 117 things to do and everything’s a crisis.

• Track to-dos, projects, reminders, communications, schedules, and all other information necessary to organize your day and life.

• Experience what is happening neurologically when you multi-task, why you have a hard time focusing, and how concentrate instead.

• Eliminate double-entry, reduce keystrokes, minimize effort, and increase efficiency.

• Learn little-known Microsoft Outlook tricks and tips that will amaze you and organize your email, contacts, and calendar.

• Use effective reminder systems to keep track of time-sensitive emails and paper documents, without using your brain, in-box, or piles for memory tools.

• Use the 6-D Information Management System™ to process email, phone calls, meeting notes, paperwork, action items, commitments, and thoughts—and keep all your in-boxes empty.

• Leave knowing exactly what to do with any piece of information that enters your life from now on!

Workshop Details

Denver, Colorado

Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location: The University of Denver

Nearest Airport: Denver International Airport

Register Online or Printable Enrollment Form

Dallas, Texas

Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location: To be determined

Nearest Airport: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

Register Online or Printable Enrollment Form

Tuition

Your investment for this innovative workshop is only $149 per participant or $129 when enrolling three or more individuals for the same workshop.  The Atlanta workshop is FREE.

Registration

On-line registration is preferred.  Please click the links above for each workshop to register.  Or you can print the enrollment form and fax it to 303-471-7402 with credit card information.  Or you can also mail a check made out to The Productivity Pro® to 9948 S. Cottoncreek Drive, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130.  You will receive an emailed confirmation of your enrollment.

Who Should Attend

Executives, managers, sales representatives, support staff, and other professionals who work long hours and feel overwhelmed by work volume, information, and projects.

Participant Materials

You will receive a 50-page workbook for use as a job aid and reference manual.

No Substitution or Cancellation Fees

Participant substitutions are permitted at any time prior to the workshop.  If cancellation occurs ten or more business days prior to the workshop, a full refund is available.  If you cancel fewer than ten business days prior to the workshop, we will gladly issue a full credit for future public or in-house workshops.

Other Information

• Participants may purchase a copy of The Productivity Pro® Day-Timer on-site at a special discounted rate.

• This will be a very interactive, roll-up-your-sleeves, learn new skills workshop. You will be bringing (as applicable) your handheld, a pile of paper you don’t know what to do with, and your current time management system.

• To keep costs down and accommodate dietary needs, lunch is on your own. Danish and coffee will be provided in the morning.

• You will walk away with your own self-improvement action plan.

• Format includes lecture, individual exercises, small and large group discussion, and partnering work.

• Dress is business casual. We recommend you bring a sweater or light jacket due to room temperature fluctuations.

Click here to register online!

About Laura Stack

Laura Stack is a personal productivity expert, author, and professional speaker who helps busy workers Leave the Office Earlier® with Maximum Results in Minimum Time™.  She is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., a time management training firm specializing in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations.  Since 1992, Laura has presented keynotes and seminars on improving output, lowering stress, and saving time in today’s workplaces.  She is the bestselling author of three works published by Broadway Books: The Exhaustion Cure (2008), Find More Time (2006) and Leave the Office Earlier (2004).  Laura is a spokesperson for Microsoft, 3M, and Day-Timers®, Inc and has been featured on the CBS Early Show, CNN, and the New York Times. Her clients include Cisco Systems, Sunoco, KPMG, Nationwide, and 3M.