First Things First Time Management

     Today’s organizations are struggling with serious challenges: downsizing, mergers, and other major structural changes; the pressure to produce more and better results in less time and with fewer resources ... the list goes on.
     Under these pressures, the effectiveness of the individual suffers, and so does the organization.
     Let’s face it: the traditional systems and techniques for managing time and getting things done aren’t working. To survive and prosper in these challenging times, it’s time to look beyond the common solutions to these common problems. It’s time for a new direction.

     In the one-day First Things First workshop, we won’t just ask you to do things differently. We’ll challenge you to do different things. What you’ll learn will take you far beyond the limited sphere of time management into the unlimited realm of life leadership.

     If you’re not heading in the right direction in the first place, working harder and faster more will just take you farther down the wrong road. We’ll teach you how to trade your clock for a compass, identify the course that’s best for you and your organization, and move quickly toward your destination.

     The fact is, despite what traditional time management systems teach, we are not in control of our lives. Timeless principles and universal laws are. By helping you align your life with these principles, we’ll help you become truly effective.

     We’ll show you and your people how to focus on the highest-leverage activities that bring individual and organizational success. And we’ll teach you how to eliminate time-wasters.

     We’ll help you minimize the crises in your life. Our quantifiable diagnostic tools assess how you’re using your time, and help you redirect your focus toward the key activities that always produce results.

     You’ll learn why relationships are the key to success in any endeavor, and help your people build strong, lasting relationships that will enhance trust and group synergy.

     You will learn to create a mission statement that zeroes in on what matters most to the individual and the organization, and turn that into a compelling vision and direction.

     We’ll help your people create more balanced, fulfilled, and effective lives on both the personal and professional levels. Remember, an effective organization depends on effective people.

Workshops That Make a Bottom-Line Difference

     First Things First workshops, based on the best-selling book, First Things First, by Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, produce lasting, measurable results. Three different options are available:

     Dynamic, experienced Covey Leadership Center presenters teach these customized, one-day workshops at your organization’s location.

     After being trained and certified by the Covey Leadership Center, a facilitator from your organization can teach these workshops to your employees on-site. Comprehensive facilitator resources ensure consistency.

     Taught by expert Covey Leadership Center presenters in over 75 cities in North America and over 40 countries worldwide.

The Seven Habits Organizer

     Workshop participants receive the Seven Habits Organizer – a practical tool that lets them immediately apply what they’ve learned. With this unique tool, it’s easy to turn the principles taught at the workshop into lifelong habits.

High-Return Investment in Your Organization and Its People

     Your organization has only one asset that can’t be duplicated – the ultimate competitive advantage that sets you apart in the marketplace – your people. First Things First will increase that advantage, building your organization’s overall effectiveness by building the people that comprise it.

     Principles work. Call [number] today, and let’s talk about how First Things First can put them to work in your organization.

Measurable, Sustainable Benefits

     First Things First is about results.
     Everything we teach and do is designed to make organizations more
effective. Here are just a few of the things this life-changing workshop will help the people in your organization do:

• Produce transformational change in corporate culture, processes, and systems.
• Focus on high-leverage tasks to deliver the desired results with the Seven Habits Organizer.
• Find stability in the midst of structural change and market turbulence.
• Make continuing, measurable improvements in individual and organizational performance.
• Create a highly productive, high-trust culture because of improvements in relationships within the group or organization.
• Develop a shared vision and direction aligned with high-leverage activities.

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