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FOCUS - Achieving Your Highest Priorities™

Introduction

Today business environment requires more and more employees’ time and attention. Do your organization’s employees possess the abilities to identify their priorities, to resist daily distractions, to manage the information flow and to use effective planning tools?

FOCUS Achieving Your Highest Priorities is Franklin Covey's next-generation productivity workshop for today’s high-amperage work environment. Success is no longer measured by simply getting things done. It’s the people who know how to focus on the most important goals that move their organization forward-and enjoy a greater sense of job satisfaction.

Course main concepts

Course outline Core Competencies
The Time Matrix

  • Setting the stage – focusing on the truly important
  • Executing strategy
  • The Productivity Pyramid

  • Establishing and clarifying values
  • Setting goals
  • Aligning goals with priorities
  • Executing—breaking down goals into key tasks
  • Weekly and Daily Planning
  • The Franklin Covey Planning System

  • Using the planning tools
  • Prioritizing tasks
  • Managing information
  • Overcoming procrastination
  • Dealing with interruptions
  • Handling email and voicemail
  • Course Outline

  • Understanding the Time Matrix - defining and analysing tasks
  • Understanding the Productivity Pyramid
  • Identifying the values that govern and influence our actions
  • Learning steps of effectively goals setting
  • Effectively planning that starts with individual goals and essential priorities
  • Increasing productivity by prioritization
  • Keeping focus on priorities
  • Using an integrated planning system

    Workshop Benefits

    Organizational:

  • Achieving organizational objectives
  • Increasing productivity
  • Improving planning
  • Increasing job satisfaction through goals fulfilment
  • Encouraging the use of planning tools provided by the organization

    Individual:

  • Applying a process for objectives setting
  • Daily focus on priorities
  • Using a planning system
  • Taking control over the competing tasks
  • Reducing stress and frustration
  • Increasing self-esteem and energy level

    One-day Workshop Includes:

  • FranklinCovey sample planner for one month
  • Participant manual
  • Focus assessment – pre and post workshop

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