Workflow Productivity Coach

 

The Good News

Increasing personal productivity is not about doing more. It's about getting more done, with less effort and better results!

Why Improve Personal Productivity?


A few years ago, I was a Vice President of Administration in a growing business.

My mission was to build a high performance culture and increase productivity without more staff costs.

Since payroll was a high percent of operating costs, I focused on improving employee productivity.

I noticed most of our staff faced similar problems. We would hire highly qualified professionals, only to find they often lacked sufficient skills in managing their workflow. Surprisingly few had received any education or job training on how to effectively use or manage information and personal workflow.

For example, emails and phone calls would go unreturned, important tasks would fall through the cracks, paper clutter would mount high on desktops.

It became clear that most performance problems were systems problems. We could improve employee productivity when systems and processes were created, documented, and implemented.

More Good News!

Once a person received one-on-one coaching in systems and productivity skills, they managed workflow more easily. Employee productivity improved markedly.

This approach changes everything. It means that instead of firing people for performance problems, you can look at where the systems fail to support employee productivity.

So, a systems approach, along with providing coaching to improve employee productivity, makes work easier and brings new and seasoned staff up-to-speed quickly and effectively. And, it creates a happier, more productive work environment and team.

"This coaching program definitely improved my productivity. Before working with a coach, I experienced a lot of stress on a daily basis.
 
After working with Virginia, I became much more organized and effective at work. I learned many new workflow techniques that I am using both for work and in my personal life to achieve my goals." John C., WWSA

People Aren't the Problem

As office workers, we're flooded with information on a daily basis. Organizing it all is a major challenge.

Too much information, and not knowing how to deal with it all, causes stress and overwhelm even in the most experienced and skilled among us. Worse yet, it can stop us from making critical decisions.

Ask people what gets in the way of personal productivity, and you'll hear responses like this: "My inbox is so full, I don't know where to start." or "I have too much to do." or: "I have too many meetings and interruptions."

Yet, emails and the volume of work are not really the issue. In fact, these issues become irrelevant to personal productivity once people have a good system for managing the volume of their work.

How do you keep track of all the various commitments, projects, emails, and actions you have? And then, how do you find the time to create and a good workflow system?

"As a result of the coaching services I received from Virginia, I am more confident in my career goals and satisfied with my life!"
Hank Olszewski, Manufacturing Executive

What People Really Need

A better way of working. If you are challenged by your workload, or the volume of information you need to track - you just need to turn your workflow overload into a simple, seamless, and personalized system.

Personalized hands-on coaching shows you how to make your work easier, faster, and simpler, and gain back 1-2 hours a day of productive time.

We recommend one-on-one coaching. Because if your workflow systems are not created and implemented quickly (in a 2-3 day period), it usually doesn't happen.

Why One-on-One Coaching?

"90% of managers squander their time in all sorts of ineffective activities, rushing from meeting to meeting, checking their email constantly and fighting fires, thinking they are attending to important matters, they are really just spinning their wheels."
- Harvard Business Review
10-Year Productivity Study, 2002

Have you ever attended a time management seminar in order to become more organized at work? Have you returned to the office highly motivated with lots of new ideas and information determined to once and for all get more organized -- only to revert to the same old behavior and systems you've used in the past?

Maybe you tried some of the ideas presented and made a few changes. But, basically, not much changed and you quickly became inundated by the volume of information, paper, and email once again.

More often, we return to our offices and to the same work habits that impelled us to attend a time management seminar. Many people report that very little change occurs for them in their daily worklife after attending a one-day seminar event.

We believe one-on-one personal coaching is the best solution. On-the-job learning involves personal coaching, practice, implementation, feedback and reflection. It's simply the fastest way for a person to make the changes that achieve results.

Personal Coaching is a Fast Solution

A Productivity Coach walks you through a process that puts a personalized workflow system in place in your office. Your workflow system organizes project and action lists, plans and schedule events, and enables fast retrieval of information. Most importantly, the coaching process is customized to your unique needs and goals.

Through personal Workflow Productivity Coaching, you receive the support you need to:

• get current with existing workflow - including capturing all of your incompletions, ideas, next actions, project lists, meeting agendas, delegated items, timelines.
• apply what you learn - immediately - you'll be getting work done during the coaching sessions
• integrate techniques and skills for managing information, timelines, emails and project goals.
• strategies and actions that will lead to your success
• make your work easier, faster, and simpler, for stress-free productivity
  
  Coaching is customized to your individual and unique needs, and 100% focused on you – with real world results guaranteed.
  

"I learned a great deal from Virginia about "working smarter" using a systems approach. I can hardly imagine a more productive or supportive coach!"
Esther J., Ed.D., Jantzen Books, Inc.

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