FOR RELEASE: Jan 19, 2004
For Immediate Release
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Contact Susan Hawkins
770-923-0883
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Create An Additional 4 Hours A
Week / 208 Hours a Year ...
Simple Time Management Process Helps Employees Meet New Years' Resolutions for
Getting Organized and Creating Balance Between
Work and Home
ATLANTA, Georgia, January 19, 2004 -- Employers are challenged to produce
more work with less employees. Employees are craving ways to create more
work/home
life balance.
To meet these challenges both employers and employees are looking for ways to
find more time by committing to get more organized in 2004.
“
There is a simple way for organizations to help their employees find more time.
What would organizations do if each of their employees had an additional 200
hours available per year? What would happen if employees were less stressed and
had more time to give at the office and at home? How would employee retention
and productivity improve?" asks Karla Brandau, President of Time for Results,
a time management and technology company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Brandau is
the author of “Wake Up The Winner Inside,” a book on mental toughness
available at Amazon.com or from the Time for Results web site at www.timeforresults.com.
“ As each person in an organization becomes better organized, productivity
increases as well as bottom-line profits. Organizations can help their employees
find this
extra time, 4+ hours a week, by providing time management training using
Microsoft Outlook, a tool almost every organization already has in place."
Brandau notes that most organizations purchase the Microsoft Outlook software
and give their employees extremely basic instruction on using it. According
to Brandau, "On average employees manage 50 e-mails a day, attend 2-3
meetings, address pressing customer needs, have long commutes and hectic
travel schedules.
Employees must do all of this all under the stress of a shortage of personnel
and increased workloads due to large scale layoffs in 2002 and 2003."
"
People are struggling with how to manage their day. By expanding the knowledge
and use of Outlook, marrying time management with technology already in place,
personal organization is simplified and exponentially improved. People are less
stressed, and they begin working and living on purpose. The 'Time for Results'
methodology effectively “marries” time management principles
and the technology of Outlook for increased productivity and profitability."
The 'Time for Results' methodology allows trained users to:
*Increase personal productivity by 10 % or more.
*Solve the prioritizing dilemma by creating a production 'flow' for each day.
*Organize key to-dos, projects and priorities by integrating all aspects of Outlook.
*Improve workgroup efficiency and project management by 25% or more.
*Ensure ease and timeliness in follow through with team members and/or employees
by systematizing follow-up.
*Create personal and professional development plans, integrating goals, values
and roles-in-life into their daily schedule.
'Time for Results', a productivity and personal effectiveness firm producing
products that teach individuals how to be more organized from goal setting to
curing the e-mail blues, offers these tips:
1. You can do anything you want to do, but not everything, so choose wisely when
you plan your daily task list. Examine your master task list, evaluate your projects
and check your goals. Use advanced features in Outlook to keep you focused on
your goals, as well as to organize and track your progress.
2. The professional performer in the business world is no different than
a professional performer in the athletic world, so take some lessons: warm
up,
before your “game” which
is your day. To make this work in your life, “warm up” the night
before by planning for 10-15 minutes before you leave work. By prioritizing
tasks and laying out the events in your Microsoft calendar you will free
big chunks
of time out of your day.
3. Shifting priorities are the rule, not the exception. Shut down the inner anger
chatter and reprioritize your list, putting the new priority just dumped in your
lap as the number 1 task to complete today. Use advanced features of Outlook
to help you make the shift and keep track.
The 'Time for Results' time management principles and technology has received
rave reviews from client companies and their seasoned employees. 'Time For Results'
principles work on desktop computers, laptops, or PDAs.
As employers and employees better utilize the tools they have and they will find
more day left at the end of everyday---to the tune of 200 hours a year !
About Karla Brandau and Time for Results:
Karla Brandau who has 20 years in the seminar and training industry, specifically
teaching time and stress management, founded Time for Results in 2001. The material
was in direct response to her customers needs to be more organized without more
investment in software or paper products, but using the tools they already had.
Time for Results now offers these services to help organizations execute top
business priorities and stay competitive in the global marketplace: corporate
training, licensed client facilitators, one-on-one coaching, and learning products.
Brandau is available for keynotes and workshops and can be reached at 1-800-770-923-0883
or at www.timeforresults.com.
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