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Empowered Productivity Workshop

WKSP-80145

Are you or members of your team like millions of professionals who are stressed by constant distractions, endless to do lists, and an overflowing inbox?
 

Then attend this workshop to learn about attention management and The Empowered Productivity™ System. The Empowered Productivity System offers a workflow methodology that is based in continuous improvement principles.  It teaches how to regain control over the details of life and work, and how to apply this same methodology to productivity software and tools in order to improve productivity to make more progress on the results that are most significant, personally and professionally.
 

What Will You Discover?
  • Why time management doesn’t work – and why attention management is the most important skill of the 21st century

  • The #1 cause of stress and worry – and how to start reducing it

  • How to prevent distractions that sabotage your productivity and performance

  • The reasons you're drowning in email, and how to get an empty inbox without letting things fall through the cracks

  • How to get maximum benefit from the tools you’re already using to save you time and effort

  • How to get control of your day, eliminate surprises, and put yourself back in the driver’s seat


PLUS...Receive a copy of the book called “a game changer” and “a lifesaver!” Personal Productivity Secrets, as a support tool to keep you moving forward after the workshop concludes.

About Maura Thomas

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Maura Thomas has trained over 30,000 professionals just like you in organizations as diverse as the U.S. Army, L'Oreal, and the American Heart Association. She's a TEDx Speaker, recognized as a Certified Speaking Professional by the National Speaker’s Association, a successful entrepreneur since 2003, and she was named a Top Leadership Speaker for 2018 in Inc. Magazine.

In 2011, publishing giant John Wiley & Sons came to Maura and invited her to literally write the book on personal productivity. That was the beginning of her success as a writer and she now has three published books, Personal Productivity Secrets (2012),  Work Without Walls (2017), and Attention Management (2019).

Her work and her expertise have been featured in hundreds of national media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, US News and World Report, and the Huffington Post, and she is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review.

She received her MBA from the Isenberg School at the University of Massachusetts, and her presentation style is described most often by audiences as fun, informative, entertaining, and inspiring.
 


Group discounts available!

Contact Shannon McDonald for more information.

 

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Please contact the Executive Programs and Corporate Education department at 858-534-9148 or unex-leadership@ucsd.edu for information about this course and upcoming sections.