Effective Workplace : Performance essentials

Tested and proven solutions to help achieve more with less stress

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Help your people use their time and brains better to achieve more with less stress!

Time is totally democratic.  We all have 24 hours of it.  However, some people manage to squeeze much more into their personal and private lives than others. 

We will share with you the secrets of effective people!

Do any of the following describe you or people in your organisation?

• They have too much to do and not enough time
• Their workload is putting them under more and more pressure.
• They are being overloaded with information
• Their emails are taking control over their lives
• Their desk looks like a bomb just hit it!

The result is stress, as we do not feel in control of our work lives.

• TMI’s solutions help individuals and organisations become more effective. TMI has helped over 3 million people around the world to –
• Achieve more
• Regain control of their work lives and
• Reduce their stress.

TMI solutions to increase personal productivity reduce stress and help organisations achieve more

• TMI’s powerful personal productivity courses have been found to increase productivity by up to 22%.
• We help people achieve more and reduce stress by helping them to –
• use their time better and
• use their brains better

These solutions are:

At individual level

• Increase Your Personal Productivity and Reduce Your Stress
• How to Tame Your Emails
• How To Improve Your Personal Organisation
• Coherent Living for Stress Management
• Brain skills – how to use more using your brain more effectively

At organisational level

• Workplace Effectiveness Survey - diagnoses how to improve organisational productivity. This survey enables organisations to develop strategic productivity improvement plans

Increase Your Personal Productivity and Reduce your Stress

“This course has saved my life”. Participant on TMI Personal Productivity (Time Manager for Outlook) training course.

In a world of doing more with less, where we have competing priorities, work overload and associated stresses, time is our most important asset. This course helps participants bridge the gap between thinking about goals and actually achieving them. The program helps you to increase personal effectiveness, manage competing priorities, tasks and time, create a balance between work and personal life, implement plans successfully, build a bridge between your goals and your daily life, i.e. to get from idea to action and to set priorities and to achieve an overview of your tasks

One of the most effective ways to track one's action plan is on MS Outlook. Tracking action plans on MS Outlook is also taught in this program. TMI has trained Microsoft employees in Europe on how to manage their time better using Microsoft Outlook! Turn Microsoft Outlook into a valuable productivity management tool TMI has been contracted, through Microsoft, to train people in 17 countries on how to increase their productivity using Microsoft Outlook. More than 3 million people have learnt how to manage their time and their lives better through TMI’s Time Manager principles.

Research in Europe has indicated that this course results in a 5-22% increase in productivity, depending on the industry of participants.

Course Duration: 1-2 days
Most suitable for: All managers and employees who want to achieve more and reduce their stress by improving their time and email management.

How to Tame Your Emails to Increase Your Productivity

Take back control of your worklife by better management of your emails!

Email has the potential to be one of our most effective and productive communication tools, or a massive waste of precious time and a source of frustration and stress.  This course will show you how to tame your emails to become a great productivity improvement tool. It includes Twenty Tips for Taming Email, how to file your email and take control – drive your email so that it does not drive you!

Course Duration: Half a day
Most suitable for: All managers and employees who rely heavily on their email in their work lives.

How to Improve Your Personal Organisation

Break old habits, learn new techniques…and achieve more

Over the years, we develop habits in the way that we organise ourselves. To become more effective, it may be necessary for you to break some of those old habits. At this TMI classic course, you will learn the Personal Effectiveness principles that have increased the personal effectiveness of millions of people for 30 years. Participants will learn how to achieve more by using TMI’s successful Time Management philosophies.  The course includes how your brain operates – and how this affects your use of time, how to use TMI’s Christmas Tree approach to managing time and priorities, how to turn your goals into actions, how to manage your email, your desk and your paperwork, dealing with interruptions and how to handle “timestealers”.

Course Duration: 1 day
Most suitable for: All managers and employees who want to improve their personal effectiveness.

Coherent Living for Stress Management

Using EQ to Manage Unresourceful Stress

Research has shown that workplace stress reduces productivity in a number of ways:

• Reduced worker performance
• Increased absenteeism
• Diversion of management time
• Low morale
• Increased employee turnover

This course will give participants techniques to manage their stress in fast paced work environments.

Most stress management courses focus on the physical and mental aspects.  Coherent Living is an engaging one-day workshop that helps individuals to unlock their potential clogged by the negative stress to significantly improve their quality of life and achieve greater results at work. The uniqueness of this program is that the content and tools introduced are based on scientific research that combines two powerful resources within, the heart and mind of individuals. The workshop is backed up by years of research in Emotional Intelligence and tools developed scientifically to manage this.

Course Duration: 1 day
Most suitable for: All managers and employees who lead busy, stressful work lives.

Brain skills

How to Increase Your Effectiveness by Using Your Brain More Effectively

Everyone can benefit from improving their ability to think creatively and innovatively, increasing the speed at which we read and digest information, improving the way in which we generate, structure and organise our thoughts and ideas, increasing the amount of information we can retain, improving our long term memory. In the four modules of Brain Power, we explore and develop participating individuals’ creative and innovative thinking skills, we help improve their memory and reading ability. The program aims to increase the individual’s potential by accessing the power of the brain that often lies dormant! Brain Power is a real ‘Wake Up’ for the overworked brain.

Course Duration: 2 days
Most suitable for: All managers and employees who want to improve their personal effectiveness.

Workplace Effectiveness Survey

Pinpoint how you can increase organisational productivity

The Workplace Effectiveness Survey is a unique diagnostic tool to help your organisation pinpoint how to improve productivity in your organisation. This unique diagnostic tool is based on 9 key organisational effectiveness indicators identified by TMI. The aim is to ensure that the time and energy of the people in your organisation is spent doing the right things – focusing on implementing your company’s strategies. The survey will help you -

• identify to what degree the vision and strategic business plan of the organisation is connected to individual performance objectives;
• assess whether employees use their time effectively in the achievement of their KPI’s and performance objectives;
• examine the meetings culture within the organisation;
• identify whether people manage their e-mail effectively.

The survey results will be presented in a simple-to-read format by TMI.

A senior TMI consultant will run a half day senior management Productivity Improvement Strategy Workshop as a part of this service.