The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity

The Five Choices to Extraordinary Productivity course draws on ideas and proven practices accumulated over many decades by leading productivity experts. This FranklinCovey seminar, provided by the American Management Association, equips you with essential tools to optimize your productivity and effectiveness in the workplace.

For many professionals, the demands of modern careers can feel overwhelming and exhausting. When combined with the constant distractions from an endless stream of information and interruptions, the capacity to think clearly and make sound decisions about what truly matters can suffer significantly. As a result, the goals that matter most in both professional and personal life often get neglected or left unachieved altogether.

This comprehensive productivity seminar integrates current neuroscience research with time-tested productivity principles to help you better manage your decisions, attention, and energy throughout your workday. You will learn to apply a practical process that incorporates Microsoft Outlook as a central tool, dramatically increasing your ability to accomplish your most important goals by consistently making choices that create substantial value for yourself and your organization. This approach not only produces measurable increases in productivity but can also provide a renewed sense of engagement, motivation, and genuine accomplishment.

To maximize the value of your learning experience in this course, please bring your laptop to participate fully in the hands-on practice exercises and demonstrations.

Who Should Attend:

Business professionals at all organizational levels who are seeking practical tools and strategies to maximize their productivity and achieve extraordinary results.

How You Will Benefit:

• Apply the latest neuroscience research on brain health to enhance your workplace productivity
• Adopt a consistent language with colleagues to ensure alignment regarding what is truly "important and urgent"
• Develop the skills needed to achieve a genuine, sustainable work-life balance
• Build a personalized and practical system for managing your highest-impact goals and initiatives
• Learn strategies to control technology rather than allowing technology to control you

What You Will Cover:

Choice 1: Acting on the Important Instead of Reacting to the Urgent

• Developing the ability to distinguish what is important from what is merely urgent or less important
• Teaching others the language and methodology for recognizing importance in their work

Choice 2: Going for Extraordinary Instead of Settling for Ordinary

• Clarifying what an extraordinary achievement looks like within your most critical professional roles
• Defining and implementing measurable objectives that lead to desired role outcomes

Choice 3: Scheduling the Big Rocks Instead of Sorting Gravel

• Mastering weekly planning approaches to identify, schedule, and execute high-impact priorities
• Mastering daily planning methods to optimize your attention, energy, and execution quality

Choice 4: Ruling Your Technology Instead of Letting It Rule You

• Creating a personalized system to effectively manage appointments, tasks, contacts, notes, and documents
• Transforming Outlook into a powerful productivity and workflow management engine

Choice 5: Fueling Your Fire Instead of Burning Out

• Understanding how brain health directly impacts your daily performance and effectiveness
• Using the Five Energy Drivers to maintain consistent energy and focus throughout the day

Special Features

Pre-Work Required

Upon registration, you will receive access to an online benchmark assessment consisting of twenty-six questions designed to measure your current productivity behaviors and practices. You will have the opportunity to retake this assessment after the course to track your progress and improvement.

Attendees Will Receive

• Comprehensive Participant Guide
• Microsoft Outlook Technical Reference Guide
• The Five Choices monograph, including an integrated notebook
• Bonus Modules featuring three video-based mini-courses with accompanying toolkits

Outline

Learning Objectives

• Apply the Latest Neuroscience Research on Brain Health to Maximize Your Productivity
• Establish a Common Language with Colleagues to Ensure Alignment Around What Is "Important and Urgent"
• Develop the Skills to Achieve True and Consistent Work-Life Balance
• Create a Personalized, Practical System for Managing Your High-Impact Goals and Priorities
• Master Strategies to Control Technology Rather Than Allowing It to Control You