Overcoming Overload

Workshop For

Business Leaders and

Knowledge Workers

Test Your Overload

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Workshop Results

Testimonies

Background

• Growing demand for services, the forecasted shortage of skilled talent and the increasing flow of e-mail and information content will likely exasperate our work and information overload problem.

• The knowledge based economy has created an interdependent relationship between overload and information overload. Control one and you can manage the other.  The results you will find are enhanced effectiveness and improved work/life balance.

Workshop Objectives

• By common sense principles and practical tips The Overcoming Overload Workshop™ seeks to help leaders and knowledge workers improve their effectiveness by controlling the negative impact of information overload.

Workshop Value Proposition

• In clients as large as IBM and as small as local charities, this workshop has helped leaders and knowledge workers improve their effectiveness by reducing the negative impact of information overload by an average of 28.4% over an 8 week period.

Who Can Benefit

Two groups of professionals can benefit from this workshop investment:

• Individuals sensing the negative impact of overload and seeking more work/ life balance

• Leaders seeking to help their teams become more effective and/or cope with work and information overload

Learning Goals

The Personal Knowledge Management Framework™, illustrated below,

         is a topical framework that helps participants:

• Identify the causes and symptoms of overload

• Avoid the dangers of "Title Imposed Roles" as a key cause for the overload world

• Define a new filtering model helping to prioritize more effectively by focusing on higher value roles, attributes, goals, and activities

• Acquire new practical tips to overcome inputs that cause information overload

• Develop a new filing system that reduces the clutter that leads to information overload

•  Start a personal action plan on the road to a more balanced life

The Personal Knowledge Management Framework™

Workshop Structure:

This workshop is highly tailored in response to client needs and objectives as well as participants’ learning style.  It is has helped large and small organizations. It includes one or more of the following:

• Individual/ group assessments and interviews

• Pre-workshop exercises

• Presentations and group facilitations based on The Personal Knowledge Management Framework™

• One on one coaching and accountability follow-up

• The Overload Gauge™ for progress reporting

• One year e-mail and phone support

Ms. Karen MacDonald, Regional Director, Training and Education, NB

"Through the education session, ... and the excellent personal coaching session we have already made many changes that are leading us to be more effective and more satisfied in our work lives."

             Ms. Doug Stirling, Director, Corporate Accounting, IBM

"When Baha speaks you know he has a passion for helping people and making a positive impact on his listeners" 

Ms. Naseem Somani, Chief Executive Officer GD Dynacare Medical Laboratories

"The Overload Workshop has something for everyone - a veritable smorgasbord of energy savers. Every knowledge worker and manager - everyone could benefit from it."
                  Dr. Rick Fenton, PhD, Strategist and Futurist, Asymptote Inc.