Posted by Pierre Khawand on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 @ 04:27 PM
Join Founder & CEO of People-OnTheGo Pierre Khawand as he presents his popular webinar, Staying Focused in an ADD World, on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 from 11 a.m. to noon PT. Pierre is delighted to be presenting this webinar through the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA), and looks forward to having you there! Registration is free for NCHRA Members; $49 for the general public.
Summary
As busy business professionals, you face many competing priorities and receive a large number of requests from staff, colleagues and other stakeholders – placing your “attention” in high demand.
The latest workplace and personal technologies make it increasingly challenging to stay focused on the current task or current thought. These technologies range from e-mail, IM, and mobile devices, to the latest Social Media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, and the like. Discover how to:
• Maintain focused and collaborative time
• Execute a meaningful thought process
• Strategically manage your time
Register now, you don't want to miss it!
Posted by Pierre Khawand on Fri, Mar 18, 2011 @ 11:40 AM
Session Details
Accomplishing More with Less: Five Productivity Principles for the Digital Age
Monday April 11, 2011 from 3:00 to 4:15 pm (Oakland Convention Center)
Workplace Application: Overcome the challenges of information overload and learn to work efficiently to achieve desired results.
In today's digital age, information comes our way from many fronts and in abundance. As individuals, this information overload inhibits our ability to meet our business and personal goals, affecting our satisfaction at work and in our personal lives. Master five key productivity principles to help you, your team, and your organization overcome the challenges of information overload and work efficiently together to achieve the desired results.
Presenter: Pierre Khawand, Founder & CEO, People-onTheGo
Pierre Khawand Founder & CEO of People-OnTheGo (www.people-onthego.com), has more than twenty years of experience in the software industry. He has led several technology ventures, completed successful mergers and acquisitions, and founded People-OnTheGo in 2001. His best-selling Accomplishing More With Less workshop and book enables business professionals to better cope with information overload and competing priorities. Pierre is also the author of the popular less-is-more blog. Pierre holds a Master's degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan, and has completed several Executive Education programs at the Stanford Graduate School of Management.
Posted by Pierre Khawand on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 @ 08:25 PM
Session Details
Press Conference: How Email & Social Media Changed Our Lives--The Survey Findings
Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:00 am to 10:45 am Pacific Time.
Reserve your seat now!
You are invited to join us at this press conference (via web/phone conferencing), in which we will present the survey findings with a panel of industry experts (including Adrian Ott, Author of the 24-Hour Customer, and Mark Bennett, Product Strategy Director at Oracle).
Join us to learn the in-depth story about how e-mail and Social Media are used in the workplace today and what the future might look like based on our recent survey which included 1000 participants.
The full survey report will be released on the day of the conference.
Hope you will be able to join us!
Posted by Pierre Khawand on Sun, Oct 31, 2010 @ 01:04 PM
Session Details
Keynote Presentation at ADRP International Conference (Association of Donor Relations Professionals):
Maximizing effectiveness by better managing time and the onslaught of digital communication
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 9:30am-10:45am Pacific Time (in San Francisco)
Pierre Khawand, founder and principal of People-OntheGo, brings breakthrough insights and revolutionary techniques that tackle the core issues facingtoday's workforce: maximizing effectiveness by better managing time and the onslaught of digital communication.
In today's digital age, information is coming our way from many fronts and in abundance. Keeping track of it and leveraging it becomes very challenging. Researchers tell us that 15% to 30% of our time is spent searching for information, and that more than half of these searches are not fruitful. They estimate the total cost for the U.S. economy is $98 billion dollars per year, and the opportunity cost is twice as high. As individuals, the cost is even higher because it involves our ability to meet our business and personal goals and our satisfaction at work and in our personal lives. In this session, productivity expert Pierre Khawand, founder of People-OnTheGo, will walk us through some key principles that can help us, help our teams, and our organizations overcome the challenges of information overload, and work efficiently together to achieve the desired results. When it comes to the information overload, there is light at the end of the tunnel! So join us to get not only a glimpse of this light, but to learn some thought-provoking principles and techniques that will get you there.
Learn more about the session
Hope you will be able to join us!
Posted by Maria Medina on Sat, Apr 10, 2010 @ 12:24 PM
Session Details
The New Platform for Collaboration and Training on Virtual Worlds
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 11:00am-12:15pm Pacific Time
Explore the relevance of virtual worlds in business today, and discover how to implement them into your employee programs. The future is here! And you can be apart of it now! Find out how innovative companies such as IBM, Intel, Ernst & Young, Cheveron, and Walt Disney apply virtual world platforms to a broad range of business applications, in which training, collaboration, and innovation are top on the list. What do you need to know in order to join this movement? What are the costs involved and what is the ROI? Can you afford it? Can you afford not to? Discover how you can make virtual worlds a part of your toolset as you plan your future employee programs, including recruiting and onboarding.
Learn more about the session, HR WEST and register now
Hope you will be able to join us!
Posted by Maria Medina on Fri, Apr 09, 2010 @ 07:15 PM
Session Details
Five Productivity Principles for the Digital Age
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 6:00pm-8:30pm Pacific Time
Feeling overwhelmed by information? Keeping track of and leveraging information is a huge challenge. Researchers note that up to 30 percent of our time is spent on often-unfruitful searches. The cost to the U.S. economy is an estimated $98 billion annually, and the opportunity cost is twice that. The cost is even higher to consultants, because it impacts our ability to meet business and personal goals. During this dynamic session, productivity expert Pierre Khawand will identify key principles that can help us and our teams overcome the challenges of information overload and work efficiently. There's a light at the end of the tunnel! join us to get a glimpse of this light and be exposed to thought-provoking ideas and techniques.
Key Takeaways
- Manage interruptions and stay focused until you achieve meaningful results
- Respond to the demands of clients and colleagues and collaborate more effectively than ever
- Manage the e-mail and social media overload
- Use technology to enhance information sharing and collaboration
- Explore the latest sales and marketing tools to better leverage relationships
Learn more about the session and about WIC and register now
Advanced online reservations close on Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Hope you will be able to join us!
Posted by Maria Medina on Mon, Mar 29, 2010 @ 02:31 PM
Session Details
The New Platform for Training, Collaboration and Innovation on virtual worlds
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 5:30pm-8:00pm Pacific Time
Find out how innovative companies such as IBM, Intel, Ernst & Young, Cheveron, and Walt Disney apply virtual world platforms to a broad range of business applications, in which training, collaboration, and innovation are top on the list. What do you need to know in order to join this movement? What are the costs involved and what is the ROI? Can you afford it? Can you afford not to? Discover how you can make virtual worlds a part of your toolset as you plan your future employee programs, including recruiting and onboarding.
Learn more about the session and about ASTD: Golden Gate Chapter/Workplace Learning & Performance
We hope you will join us!
Posted by Pierre Khawand on Sun, Mar 28, 2010 @ 09:04 PM
Session Details
Inbox Zero: Coping with Email & Social Media
Wednesday, April 21 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM Pacific Time
As a professional in the digital age, and someone who works on a variety of initiatives, projects, events and on-going tasks, you are likely to get your fair share of the 2.8 Billion email messages sent daily in the U.S. (according to IDC), and you are likely to want to stay up-to-date on what is going on in the blogosphere and the social media sphere-from Twitter to Facebook, LinkedIn and whatever is next (all together forming a whole "other" inbox). This overload brings some significant challenges to our already overcrowded inboxes: Tracking unfinished email messages, organizing messages, finding information when you need it are all steps we need to take to keep our email inbox and Social Media feeds under control. In this session, you will experience the big "Ah-Ha's" of effective email inbox organization and social media best practices. Join Pierre Khawand, Founder and Principal of People-OnTheGo, as he helps you to make this transformation today and realize a zero inbox!
Key Takeaways
- Learn powerful techniques that will transform email from an ad-hoc and time consuming activity into a pleasant and successful one
- Learn how to efficiently organize your email messages and find information when you need it
- Discover best practices for keeping social media "inboxes" well managed and most leveraged
Learn more about the session and about ad:tech
Hope you will be able to join us!
Posted by Pierre Khawand on Tue, Feb 02, 2010 @ 05:24 AM
San Francisco, CA - Thursday January 28, 2010-People-OnTheGo releases The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook paperback and Kindle Edition, to help business professionals manage through the challenging economic times
Summary: Pierre Khawand, founder of People-OnTheGo, released The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook paperback and Kindle Edition at Amazon.com, and the free eBook titled "The Results CurveTM: How to Manage Focused and Collaborative Time", which is available for download at http://www.people-onthego.com. The book and eBook enable business professionals to better manage the increasingly challenging work conditions and develop the skills they need to better manage this unprecedented information overload in spite of the reduced training budgets.
San Francisco, CA - January 28, 2010 - Business professionals today are experiencing increasingly challenging work conditions, asked to do more with less resources and less training, bombarded by competing priorities and conflicting demands, and constantly interrupted by email, Instant Messaging, phone calls, meetings and now Facebook updates and Tweets. There is a tremendous need for a new approach for managing time and managing tasks, and collaborating in the workplace. The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook was released by Pierre Khawand, Founder and CEO of People-OnTheGo (http://www.people-onthego.com/), a productivity training company in San Francisco, California, to enable business professionals to overcome these challenges.
"We are bombarded by an unprecedented information overload, and work and live in an era of interruptions where the very technologies that were invented to enhance productivity have made it nearly impossible to get work done" said Mr. Khawand who created the Accomplishing More With Less Methodology as a result of a decade of research and teaching on corporate and academic campuses. "This puts unreasonable demands on our work and personal lives, and as a result, we suffer, feel helpless, and our accomplishments decline. This needs to stop!"
"After drastic budget cuts and layoffs, our staff needed to rethink the way we approach our business with limited resources and support" indicated Lishelle Blakemore, Executive Director, University Relations at UC Berkeley. "We also noticed that people were feeling a loss of control in this new constrained environment." After the one day offsite in which the team experienced The Accomplishing More With Less Methodology, Ms. Blakemore pointed out that the methodology offered practical, strategic and innovative approaches to her team's work and new tools for thinking creatively about achieving their goals. "The results have been remarkable: everyone feels more in control of their work responsibilities and we can now see the new path for success in our current environment" added Ms. Blakemore.
Adam Christensen, CTO of HR Systems at Wells Fargo Corporation, commented as follows: "The Accomplishing More With Less Methodology provided us with specific and pragmatic concepts as opposed to high level recommendations, which are rare to find, and when we rolled out the methodology to the management team, we got similar positive feedback." Subsequently, Mr. Christensen equipped his staff of around two hundred employees with the Accomplishing More With Less Workbook to help them manage through their demanding and complex work schedules.
While traditional time management and goal setting approaches that thrived in the 80's and 90's seem to work well under normal workloads and operating conditions, users are seeking new ways to address their time and information management needs. New solutions that address today's realities including constant interruptions, the need to collaborate virtually with the latest Web 2.0 technologies, and being part of the social media platforms are needed. Companies like People-OnTheGo (http://www.people-onthego.com/) are providing resources that can help. The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook, the Kindle Edition, and the free eBook, are examples of the new and innovate types of cost effective resources that are now available to users.
About People-OnTheGo
People-OnTheGo helps business professionals effectively manage their time, their priorities, and their information architecture, by offering them a comprehensive set of training programs that are available in person and virtually. People-OnTheGo delivers its virtual classes via web conferencing and in Second Life. Web self-paced classes are also available 24x7. Topics covered include time management, e-mail management, office applications, collaboration, and virtual team building.
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Mon, Jan 25, 2010 @ 05:39 PM
CSP's Golden Gate Chapter presents Motivation Day 2K10. Designed to motivate, train and inspire staffing professionals to achieve breakthrough performance throughout the year. Register today to take advantage of the early bird special.
A one day retreat with inspirational and motivational speakers
- Craig Silverman (keynote speaker)
- Al Dubuc
- Pierre Khawand
- Margaret Graziano
- Kitty Kotzebue
Logistics & Details
- Friday, February 12, 2010
- 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Wedgewood Banquet Center, Crystal Springs Golf Course, Burlingame, CA
Register now for early bird pricing !!
- $127 prior to January 31st
- $157 after January 31st
RSVP: www.cspgoldengate.com
Includes continental breakfast, lunch and afternoon hors d'oeuvres in an outstanding venue overlooking the Crystal Springs Resevoir.
For more information
contact: acera@psinapse.com
California Staffing Professionals
c/o Ockham (formerly ASG, Inc)
South San Francisco, California 94080
650-871-5000