Accomplishing more with less: 5 productivity principles for the digital age
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.
Managing the Deluge: Effective Email Inbox Organization
As a professional in the "digital information" age, and someone who works on a variety of projects, events, and on-going initiatives, you are likely to get your fair share of the 2.8 Billion e-mail messages sent daily in the U.S. (according to IDC), and you are likely to face three challenges: Tracking unfinished messages, organizing messages and finding information when you need it, and keeping your inbox under control. In this session, you will experience the big "Ah-Ha's" of effective e-mail inbox organization. You will learn powerful techniques that will transform e-mail from an ad-hoc, time consuming activity into a pleasant and successful one. Join us to make this transformation today!
Using Collaboration Technologies to Accelerate Everything-Blogs, wikis, SharePoint, and virtual meeting tools
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are displayed in a reverse chronological order (most recent on top). Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject and can be public, or protected and therefore only accessible within an organization or a team. Blogs have revolutionized the process of publishing information on the Web as well as the sharing of information within companies. A wiki on the other hand is a collection of web pages that anyone can edit. Wikis are used as a knowledge- base similar to Wikipedia, and as a collaboration tool reducing reliance on group email. With wikis you can reduce email volume, cut down meeting times, and accelerate project cycles. And Microsoft SharePoint is a sophisticated Intranet that has embedded in it document management, calendaring, and workflow capabilities. Finally, virtual meeting tools such as web and video conferencing, and Virtual Worlds, are becoming a must for virtual workers operating in a global work environment.
In this session, we explain the benefits of these tools, both strategically and tactically, and demonstrate their capabilities, therefore providing the audience with the conceptual and practical knowledge they need to explore the applications of these tools in their work environments.
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