As a child, I remember sitting for hours at a time, absorbed in my favorite books.  My mother would enter the living room asking, "Didn't you hear me call you?"  As I came back to reality, I would answer honestly, "No, mommy I didn't."  And that was the complete truth!  That level of concentration is very hard to achieve today.  With noise, interruptions, people, and instant messages, so many things competing for our attention in the workplace that it's often very difficult to concentrate.  This seminar will improve your ability stay on target and focus on the task at hand.

Meetings, meetings, meetings!  Where minutes are taken and hours are wasted.  Today's managers and professionals spend so much time attending them—you'd think most would be trained in how to plan and run them.  Not so.  Most meetings frustrate employees, because agendas aren't distributed, objectives aren't defined, time runs over, and no decisions are made.  Another two hours of your day down the drain!  This course gives people who call meetings the requisite skills to plan and execute a productive meeting, and follow-up properly afterward.  It also provides the protocols necessary to keep a meeting on the right track, even if you're just attending.  You will learn to achieve the objectives of the meeting, in a minimum amount of time, in a way that's satisfying to all participants.

One-hour audio program for executive women who need to

• Balance their lives
• Get their work done in less time
• Focus on what's really important
• Do your hightest priority tasks first
• Stop multi-tasking and focus

One-hour audio program for leaders who need to

• Manage employee productivity
• Run effective meetings
• Delegate properly
• Eliminate external and internal time wasters
• Reduce the length of time spent at work

One-hour audio program for sales professionals who need to

• Define sales goals and income targets
• Spend more time on the selling activity
• Plan and prioritize your day
• Schedule your appointments realistically
• Get the tools you need to succeed

90-minute audio program for professionals at all levels who need to organize email, paper, and voice mail. Do you get 100 emails every day?  Do you feel like you're slowly drowning in a sea of paper?  Does the sight of your messy office and overflowing email in-box frustrate you?   Then this course is for you!  You may work hard.  But if you're disorganized, every step is a struggle.  In this age of downsizing and a do-more-with-less mentality, efficiency is more important than ever before.  This course will help professionals, managers, and administrative staff stay on top of things.  You will gain scores of new tips and techniques for bringing order into your life, both personally and professionally!

One-hour audio program for professionals at all levels who need to get more done in less time. Do you find yourself continually racing against time?  Do you feel that you have so much to do that it's difficult to get anything done?  Managing time effectively is the key to managing your individual performance.  Time management is much more complicated than making a list and checking things off.  Learn how to set priorities and focus on what's truly important, plan and schedule your day, and organize your calendar and tasks.

75-minute audio program for HR professionals responsible for aligning the often-conflicting areas of employee productivity and retention.