FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities - Microsoft Outlook Edition

Microsoft Outlook Edition

Presented by Franklin Covey®

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Irvine, CA

Special Offer Extended! No cost if you register by October 8!

Overview

FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities – Microsoft Outlook Edition is a workshop that teaches productivity skills integrated with Microsoft Outlook. This powerful training helps employees clarify, focus on, and execute their highest priorities – personally and professionally – with the Microsoft Outlook technology they use every day. Presented by Felicia English, Consultant, FranklinCovey.

Who Should Attend

All workers in an organization who use Microsoft Outlook as their primary scheduling and information management tool and who need to increase their personal and professional productivity.

Workshop Features

• Provides technology best practices to help learners manage the onslaught of information they receive daily.
• Gives step-by-step instructions on using the top Microsoft Outlook features for users to increase their professional capabilities.
• Includes effectiveness tips on how to plan and stay focused on the highest priorities.
• Provides a goal-setting process to help participants become more focused.
• Includes the Focus Assessment—a pre- and post-workshop evaluation—to personalize workshop content and measure productivity improvement.
• Includes a 32-page Microsoft Outlook Rescue Guide to help participants start implementing the workshop’s principles immediately.

Learning Objectives

Participants who experience this workshop discover how to:

• Stay focused every day with a reliable planning system that integrates Outlook, paper, and PDA-type productivity tools.
• Gain control of competing demands on time—email, voice mail, meetings, and interruptions.
• Apply a planning process that gets better business results based on execution and priorities.
• Use Microsoft Outlook’s productivity features to increase effectiveness.
• Achieve balance and renewal, avoiding burnout and frustration.
• Reduce stress by recognizing and eliminating low-priority activities and distractions.

About the Speaker

Felicia English is passionate about building leadership at all levels throughout organizations. Clients value her ability to produce tangible results that help individuals and organizations achieve their goals. Felicia is skilled in working with many clients—successfully adapting to their unique cultures. Her high-impact training is relevant in helping them solve problems, make decisions, clarify goals, develop measures, and simplify complex issues. She believes in the power of people to “progress, produce, and persist.”  

Prior to her work with FranklinCovey, Felicia worked as an internal consultant for the Port of San Diego where she delivered training and provided executive coaching, process consultation, and performance management. She also worked for the City of Pomona, in California, as a Management Analyst on special assignment to the City Manager, Mayor, and City Council. She trained staff and community based organizations in customer service and project management.

Felicia is an adjunct faculty member for the University of Phoenix and National University where she teaches organizational development and management to students seeking bachelors and masters degrees. Felicia works with a number of organizations representing a variety of industries including pharmaceutical, health care, banking and finance, aerospace, manufacturing, and sales. In addition, she has worked with educators, governmental agencies, and branches of the military.

Felicia holds a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development and an M.A. in Human and Organizational Systems, from Fielding Graduate University. She earned a Masters in Public Administration, Cal State, Fullerton, and a B.A., from the University of California at Riverside. Felicia has been a noted speaker at a number of national and international conferences including the American Society of Training & Development (ASTD) and FranklinCovey Symposiums.

FranklinCovey (NYSE: FC) is the global consulting and training leader in the areas of strategy execution, customer loyalty, leadership and individual effectiveness.