Small Business Training – Personal Productivity

Turn your small business into a high performance organization!

Within this focused, participatory, small group setting you will learn how to:

• Communicate more effectively (personally and with your team)
• Thrive in a learning environment that you develop
• Become a team player and leader
• Set realistic goals and learn proven ways to achieve these goals
• Minimize interruptions
• Maximize productivity
• Control priorities
• Evaluate attitudes and make productive behavioral changes

Who is this class designed for?

• Business Leaders and Owners
• Managers
• Supervisors
• Key Individual Contributors to the business

Standard 6 Class Curriculum for “Personal Productivity” Training

• Kick-off plus 6 – 1.5 to 2 Hour Sessions

Custom Curriculum Options

• Add Goal Setting & Communications or other available program options

Each Session Provides action-oriented exercises to produce results!

• Offers innovative ideas which can be put into action immediately.
• Provides measurable results through behavior change.
• Provides tracking methods to move you toward your organizational goals.

Session One:
The Nature of Productivity

• What is Productivity?
• The Key Resource for Increasing Productivity
• Attitudes Toward Planning and Goal Setting
• Attitudes Toward Other People
• Attitudes Toward External Circumstances
• Attitudes Toward Practices and Procedures
• Attitudes Toward Yourself
• Identifying and Using High Payoff Activities
• Establishing a Base Line for Productivity
• The Rewards of Improving Productivity

Session Two:
Goals Achievement Through Time Management

• Your Self-Image
• Personal and Organizational Goals
• How the Goal-Setting Process Works
• The Power of Written Goals
• Finding Time for Planning and Goal Setting
• Tracking and Feedback
• Putting Affirmation and Visualization into Practice

Session Three:
Increasing Productivity Through Controlling Priorities

• Setting Priorities in All Areas of Life
• Dealing with Interruptions
• Coping with Emergencies
• Calendar / Commitment Book
• Drop-in Visitors
• Handling Paper Flow
• Efficient Work Areas
• Managing Communication
• Saying “No”

Session Four:
Improving Productivity Through Communication

• Time for Communicating
• Empathy in Communication
• Clarifying with Effective Questions
• Listening for the Total Message
• Tips for Speed Reading
• Writing for Maximum Impact
• Using Technology Efficiently and Effectively
• Communicating with Groups

Session Five:
Empowering the Team

• The Empowerment Imperative
• The Benefits of Empowerment
• The Time of a Leader
• Attitudes – The Heart of Empowerment and Delegation
• Developing Team Players Through Delegation
• Levels of Delegation
• Communication and Delegation

Session Six:
Increasing Productivity of the Team

• Sharing and Communicating Goals
• Creating a Learning Environment
• Developing and Coaching Self-Directed Work Teams
• Positive Expectancy
• Developing People
• Efficient Procedures
• Productive Meeting Strategies

If you are Small Business owner in Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Tahoe, Truckee Meadows or the surrounding communities and want more information about this program please call 775.826.8282.

And remember our initial business consultation is complimentary as well as the free small business information gift we will give you. This is our way of saying ‘thank you’  for your interest to make your business as successful as possible and as a way of getting to understand you situation and needs in greater detail.

To your evolving and growing business success!