The document discusses productivity tools and techniques, including capturing and clarifying ideas, organizing tasks using a calendar, task manager, checklists, and reference system. It also addresses common challenges with productivity and provides tips for getting back on track and enhancing one's productivity system.
Presentation abstract (75 words maximum)
As working professionals, we are often pulled in multiple directions. It can be hard to track all our priorities and determine what most needs our attention at a given time. This session will introduce you to tools that the workshop facilitators use in helping us to achieve our goals. You will leave with an action plan and a set of tools to explore toward greater productivity. (66 words)
Presentation summary (see instructions?)
As working professionals, we are often pulled in multiple directions. It can be hard to track all our priorities and determine what most needs our attention at a given time. This session will introduce you to tools that the workshop facilitators use in helping us to achieve our goals. You will leave with an action plan and a set of tools to explore toward greater productivity.
* About Us | Roles and Barriers (10 minues)
* Overview of Getting Things Done (GTD) (10 minutes)
Essential productivity tools (10 minutes)
- calendar
- Task manager
- Checklists
- reference system
- planning approach – 12 week year – agile
Common mistakes (10 minutes)
- perfectionism
- email mismanagement
- more than one system for things / no system
- not knowing what success looks like
- not know how to say no
- not having a plan going into a day or a week
- running personal and professional lives off of being reactive to other people’s priorities
Get back on track (10 minutes)
- start small – cleaning out the junk drawer – one thing you can do 15 minutes a day
- declare an email bankruptcy
- say no to something
Enhance your trusted system with other tools (10 minutes)
- shared calendars (family)
- task managers
- text expander
- online scheduling tool – doodle vs acuityscheduling
The facilitators of this workshop are both working professionals and have two small children at home. They volunteer, spend time with friends, and even occasionally get out to see a flick in an actual movie theater. They each juggle a lot and regularly ask themselves if what they are doing at that very moment is the thing that matters most… Even when running a load of laundry or washing dishes…
Distractions – interruptions
Quantity of “stuff”
Lots of different stakeholders
Culture that can embrace the tyranny of the urgent
The unexpected
Lack of margin
Perfectionism
•Common challenges (10 minutes)
•- perfectionism
•- email mismanagement
•- more than one system for things / no system
•- not knowing what success looks like
•- not know how to say no
•- not having a plan going into a day or a week
•- running personal and professional lives off of being reactive to other people’s priorities
•Get back on track (10 minutes)
•- start small – cleaning out the junk drawer – one thing you can do 15 minutes a day
•- declare an email bankruptcy
•- say no to something
•Enhance your trusted system with other tools (10 minutes)
•- shared calendars (family)
•- task managers
•- text expander
•- online scheduling tool – doodle vs acuityscheduling
Presentation abstract (75 words maximum)
As working professionals, we are often pulled in multiple directions. It can be hard to track all our priorities and determine what most needs our attention at a given time. This session will introduce you to tools that the workshop facilitators use in helping us to achieve our goals. You will leave with an action plan and a set of tools to explore toward greater productivity. (66 words)
Presentation summary (see instructions?)
As working professionals, we are often pulled in multiple directions. It can be hard to track all our priorities and determine what most needs our attention at a given time. This session will introduce you to tools that the workshop facilitators use in helping us to achieve our goals. You will leave with an action plan and a set of tools to explore toward greater productivity.
* About Us | Roles and Barriers (10 minues)
* Overview of Getting Things Done (GTD) (10 minutes)
Essential productivity tools (10 minutes)
- calendar
- Task manager
- Checklists
- reference system
- planning approach – 12 week year – agile
Common mistakes (10 minutes)
- perfectionism
- email mismanagement
- more than one system for things / no system
- not knowing what success looks like
- not know how to say no
- not having a plan going into a day or a week
- running personal and professional lives off of being reactive to other people’s priorities
Get back on track (10 minutes)
- start small – cleaning out the junk drawer – one thing you can do 15 minutes a day
- declare an email bankruptcy
- say no to something
Enhance your trusted system with other tools (10 minutes)
- shared calendars (family)
- task managers
- text expander
- online scheduling tool – doodle vs acuityscheduling
The facilitators of this workshop are both working professionals and have two small children at home. They volunteer, spend time with friends, and even occasionally get out to see a flick in an actual movie theater. They each juggle a lot and regularly ask themselves if what they are doing at that very moment is the thing that matters most… Even when running a load of laundry or washing dishes…