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Is one of your goals for 2012 to work in a more organized and productive office?
Do you have any idea how much time and money you may be wasting because you:
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Lack the systems to stay in touch with and follow up with your clients?
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Do not have a Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) to stay in touch?
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Lack a paper management system(s) to easily file and retrieve information in a matter of seconds?
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Can't find electronic documents on your computer or server because you have not implemented filing naming conventions and version control?
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Knew you should put a back-up system in place, but didn't and lost valuable information that was time consuming to recreate?
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Missed an important deadline or forgot to do something you promised for a client because your task management system is non-existent?
This year you can start your year off on the "productive" track by implemeting systems that will increase your productivitiy and your bottom line.
This class will explore in-depth many of the techniques in Laura's book Eliminate the Chaos at Work: 25 Techniques to Increase Productivity and guarantees that you will head back to your office inspired and motivated to implement the concepts presented.
About your Instructors: Robert and Laura Leist
For the cost of one hour of Laura's consulting time, you will spend a day with Laura and Robert Leist, the husband and wife team, that have dramaticaly increased the productivity and the bottom line of hundreds of small businesses. Combined, this dynamic duo has over 4 decades of business consulting experience with small business to Fortune 100 companies. They will work with you to help make sound business decisions about the various systems, software and applications you should be using in your business and how they can all work together in one cohesive system.
Read more about why Robert (Business Systems Consultant) and Laura (Chief Productivity Consultant) are uniquely qualified to teach this one-of-a-kind class.
We look forward to having you in class!
What You Will Learn
1. How to distinguish between the visisble and non-visible forms of clutter
2. How to implement a Task Management system. Three will be discussed that include applications in the Cloud as well as software for your computer.
3. How to implement 10 time saving techniques for e-mail and electronic calendars (Note: these examples will be shown with Microsoft Outlook)
4. How to create an effective paper managment system you can use daily as well as one you can create for future reference.
5. Learn about two free applications you can use to access your computer files from any computer.
6. Learn about online backup systems we recommend to our clients - and why.
7. Learn about at least 2 CRM systems you can use in your business - one that is cloud based and one that is software based
8. Learn how to create use consistent file naming conventions and implement version control for your doucments
9. Learn about how affordable a Hosted Exhange solution can be for your business and how this will save you at least 30 minutes a day if not more
What You Should Bring
1. Your laptop if you'd like to take notes or try some examples as they are presented
2. Questions - we'll save time for sharing and answer as many as we can
3. Something to take notes on if you don't bring a laptop.
Tour: Laura's Home Office and the Offices of Eliminate Chaos
Location
Class is held at Laura's home and the offices of Eliminate Chaos near Mill Creek, WA.
The address will be provided after you register.
Class Includes
1. Instruction by Laura Leist - Chief Productivity Consultant and Robert Leist - Business Systems Consultant
2. A copy of Eliminate the Chaos at Work: 25 Techniques to Increase Productivity
3. Lunch
Menu
Chicken Caesar Salad
Rolls
Fruit
Dessert
Coffee/Soda/Tea/Water
Class is limited to 12 attendees.
Plan to arrive by 9:45am.
This class is not intended for Professional Organizers.
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Eliminate my "Home Office" Chaos - January 28, 2012