Your best just got better

The "debut" of our next seminar in the Mastering Workplace Performance series

The Promise Doctrine:
a system and guidebook for consistently delivering on your promises

If you know of anyone who "may" be interested, we have room for 5 more people to attend our upcoming seminar on 11 July, 9am-1pm in Marin County, CA.

We're making this available primarily to executive directors of not-for-profit organizations, as the title sponsor is the To Celebrate Life Foundation!

After you view our website which introduces our upcoming book, please consider passing this on to just one person you think may be interested. Please ask them to e-mail us ASAP to secure a spot. The room is filling up quickly!

I have a personal goal of there being 35 people in the room. Hopefully, you know someone who will be one of them!

(We are asking for donations to cover the cost of the facility and light snacks and coffee in the morning...)

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Getting better, a half-hour at a time

Yesterday was "PresentationCampLA." Wow, what an amazing few hours

If you ever get the opportunity to attend one of these ( http://barcamp.org/ ), it's worth it. Today's charge, $10! I got to do SO much creativity...I even got to write on the office walls - they are all windows!

So, for those of you who are reading this AFTER the event, and for those of you who did not get to attend, here are my couple of awesome take-aways:

1) Run programs in 30 minute chunks. The time is enough to get an idea out, have the audience engage, ask and answer a few questions, and move on...

2) Work backwards during the rehearsal period. I've always practiced, but now I want to practice with the idea of "rehearsing" the beginning, the middle, the end, the Q&A period, even "coming back from a break!"

3) Step up...y'all! If you're thinking of upleveling you, find a way to surround yourself by other people upleveling themselves! Sure, you can watch a video, read a book, or write some notes in your own journal...But, there's nothing like surrounding yourself with other people as dedicated as you are to the journey.

Enjoy!

Get Your Tech In Check - by Nathan P. Womack

If dealing with the tech side of your service-based business -- from cell phones and computers to everything web -- creates confusion and slows you down from doing what you DO in your business, keep reading!

For many of us, technology is the one area where we feel the most confused, time-drained and annoyed.
It feels like a sea of never-ending new things to learn and complicated decisions to make, without an understanding of what effects they have.

Weren’t computers supposed to make our lives easier so we can just create and serve our clients?

 It is time to let them make your life easier and cut your learning curve exponentially by signing up for Nathan Womack’s “Get Your Tech In Check” tele-seminar:
 

Get Your Tech In Check - Teleseminar:

Top Five Steps For You To Take NOW to Make Strategic Decisions in Planning and Implementing Your Technology

 [plus specific bonus info on cheap or FREE software you don’t know about that you MUST have for maximum efficiency!]
 

DATE: Wednesday, June 17th

5pm PST, 6pm MDT, 7pm CST, 8pm EST

DURATION: 75 Minutes

Sign up...Soon!

Our www.Ojai Institute.com teleseminar, abridged!

For all those who joined us for the OjaiInstitute teleseminar this morning, thank you for attending! Here is a short "review" of some of the topics we covered. Please take the few minutes (less than 5!) to review...And, feel free to pass this on to a colleague!

Parents, please tell me you've already bought "A Parents' Guide to the Middle School Years."

This past week Joe Bruzzese launched a new web site called “The Parents’ University”.

The site features videos, audio commentary, activity downloads and excerpts from the book you purchased. As a gift to you for buying the book, I would like pay your registration fee for “The Parents’ University”. You have full access to the site including the Facebook community where parents come together to share common concerns and talk about solutions to everyday challenges. Use the following link to access the site.

www.PGMSY.com/book

Enjoy the site and the book!

PS: Parents, email me through the blog, I will ask Joe if he will give a special "friend-of-a-friend" rate to anyone who subscribes!

A dose of excitement, energy, inspiration - Pop!Tech

Through an amazing chain of events, I was introduced to Pop!Tech about three years ago. If you want some great content to go into your mind...Content that can change your life as it has changed so many of those before us who are changing the world for the better...Visit the Pop!Tech.org site!

Here's a short intro...

Free tuition to the next Ojai Institute TeleSeminar - Registration experiment

Ok, we're trying something out. Normally these conference calls cost $37 (tuition). If we can get 65 people to sign up in the next day and a half, we'll run the program for free.

All you need to do is visit the Ojai Institute website, scroll down to the application, fill out the form, and press submit!

Easiest way to do this, send this link to a friend you'd like to join us on the call Friday morning...Thanks!

Want to see what these are like? Click on this recorded presentation...The Ojai Institute.

Mastering Workplace Performance - Public Seminar on Saturday (West Palm Beach, FL)

Well, less than 36 hours to go! Our next public seminar will be held on 28 March 2009.

I reviewed my calendar, and I do believe  it has been over 3 years since I've visited West Palm Beach. Wow, time flies! At any rate, I'm very excited to present the next Mastering Workplace Performance seminar. This 4-hour course will give you a minimum of 7 ideas you can use to be more effective at work...And in life!

Download PalmBeachSeminar

Please do forward this flier on to anyone you think "may" be interested. We're taking signups through Friday!

Seminar Outline
Introduction
Productivity assessment
What is in the way?
What is along the way?

Overview of the Productivity Cycle
    - Linking Focus, Gear and Workspace management to results.

Best practices: Ability to Do Multiple Things Simultaneously
Front-end decision making (work-related processing)
Managing delegated tasks and outcomes
Maximizing calendars and to-do lists
Bunching tasks and outcome reminders to increase efficiency

Best practices: Focus on Results
Effective meeting management (using agendas and checklists)
Eliminating “in-box” clutter (paper notes, E-mail, piles, etc)
Identifying and implementing a weekly debrief/weekly review process

Best practices: Performance management
Organizing in less than 10 minutes a day
Eliminating procrastination
Identifying and monitoring habits
Setting and achieving goals and measures
Tools to add, gear to use

Conclusion
    Next steps
    Guide and checklists for immediate and sustained implementation

The OjaiInstitute continues - This time, I discuss GOAL setting

G
O
A
L

Just for fun, write those four letters, just like that, and then think of words that start with each letter to define what the word GOAL means to you...

For a recent Ojai Insitute Tele Seminar, I wrote:

Get
Objective
Achievements
Listed

Ojai Institute - the first few slides from our last teleseminar...

Here is the link to the first 10 minutes of the FIRST TeleSeminar of March. Each month, we provide these "distance-learning" opportunities. Soon, you'll be able to sign up for April's sessions...Do let us know if you'd like to join!