The Overcoming Overload Workshop

 for Leaders and Knowledge Workers

Background

More with Less.

Today’s pressing need is for improved personal and corporate effectiveness - doing more with less. The interdependent relationship between work overload and information clutter means that if you can control one then you can manage the other. This results in improved leadership, decision making, and operational effectiveness leading to improved work/life balance.

Outcomes

The Overcoming Overload Workshop shows you how to improve personal and team effectiveness by overcoming the negative impact of work overload and information clutter. You will be able to:

• Prioritize more effectively

• Improve your communication and decision making

• Manage unrealistic demands and distractions

• Enhance your personal and corporate effectiveness by eliminating information clutter

Value Proposition

In clients as large as IBM and as small as local charities, this workshop has helped leaders and knowledge workers improve their effectiveness by reducing the negative impact of information overload by an average of

 28.4% over an 8 week period.

Learning Objectives

The Personal Effectiveness  Framework™ is a topical framework designed to help you:

• Define new filtering principles to help you prioritize more effectively by focusing on higher value roles, attributes, goals, and activities

• Develop new control systems to manage unrealistic demands and the causes of information overload

• Build a new filing methodology to reduce information clutter that causes information indigestion.

In addition, like many of our clients you will learn to avoid the dangers of "Title Imposed Roles" that are a key cause for the overloaded world and you will start a personal action plan  to lead you on the road to a more effective and balanced life.

Workshop Structure:

This workshop is highly tailored in response to client predefined objectives as well as individual needs and learning style.  It has helped large and small organizations. It includes a mix of the following:

• Individual/ group assessments using the Effectiveness and Overload Gauge™

• Pre-workshop interviews

• Pre-workshop exercises

• Presentations and group facilitations

• One on one coaching,  accountability follow-up

• Personalized progress reporting

• One year e-mail and phone support

Ms. Karen MacDonald, Regional Director, Training and Education, NB

"Through the education session, ... and the excellent personal coaching session we have already made many changes that are leading us to be more effective and more satisfied in our work lives."

             Mr. Doug Stirling, Director, Corporate Accounting

" In my role, my challenge was to develop and deploy programs that provide measurable, sustainable benefits for individuals and teams, looking for better balance and greater productivity, in the face of ever growing workload.  I believe the Overcoming Overload Workshop is such a program."

Ms. Violette Lareau, Director, Employee Engagement & Wellness

"The Overload Workshop has something for everyone - a veritable smorgasbord of energy savers. Every knowledge worker and manager - everyone could benefit from it."

Dr. Rick Fenton, PhD, Strategist and Futurist, Asymptote Inc.