The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity course is built on ideas and practices that the leaders of the productivity field have refined over decades of research, application, and refinement. This AMA seminar, developed in partnership with FranklinCovey, gives you the concrete tools needed to raise your performance in ways that are measurable, sustainable, and deeply meaningful.
For most professionals, the modern workplace creates an almost impossible combination of demands. The workload is heavy. The information never stops. The distractions are relentless. If you react to all of it without a clear framework for what actually matters, your days fill up with activity that leads nowhere important, your most significant goals get perpetually delayed, and you end each week feeling exhausted but somehow behind. This is not a time management problem. It is a decision-making problem, and this course addresses it directly.
Drawing on current neuroscience research and proven productivity principles, the 5 Choices framework helps you manage your decisions, your attention, and your energy in a new way. You will apply a structured process, incorporating Microsoft Outlook as a practical productivity workflow engine, to dramatically increase your ability to achieve the outcomes that matter most in your professional and personal life. The result is not simply more output. It is a fundamentally different experience of work: more focused, more satisfying, and more aligned with what you actually value.
Please bring your laptop to class for a more hands-on, immediately applicable learning experience.
Who Should Attend:
Business professionals at every organizational level who are looking for the tools and framework to maximize their productivity and consistently achieve extraordinary results, rather than simply staying busy.
How You Will Benefit:
- Apply the latest neuroscience on brain health and cognitive performance to maximize your daily productivity
- Develop a shared language with your team around what is truly important versus what is merely urgent
- Achieve a genuine, consistent work-life balance by making better decisions about how you spend your time and attention
- Create a personalized, practical system for identifying, planning, and executing your highest-impact goals
- Take control of technology so it amplifies your work rather than fragmenting it
What You Will Cover
Choice 1: Act on the Important Rather Than React to the Urgent
- Develop the discipline to distinguish the important from the merely urgent or the simply easy
- Build a shared language and methodology of importance within your team and organization
Choice 2: Go for Extraordinary Rather Than Settle for Ordinary
- Clarify what an extraordinary outcome looks like in each of your most important current roles
- Define meaningful, measurable goals and develop the execution discipline to achieve them
Choice 3: Schedule the Big Rocks Rather Than Sort the Gravel
- Master a weekly planning process that reliably identifies, protects, and executes your highest-impact priorities
- Master a complementary daily planning process that ensures your attention, energy, and actions stay aligned throughout each day
Choice 4: Rule Your Technology Rather Than Let It Rule You
- Design a personalized digital system for managing appointments, tasks, contacts, notes, and documents efficiently
- Configure Microsoft Outlook as a fully functioning productivity workflow engine that actively supports your priorities
Choice 5: Fuel Your Fire Rather Than Burn Out
- Understand how brain health directly impacts your moment-to-moment performance and decision quality
- Apply the five Energy Drivers to sustain your physical and mental energy consistently throughout the day
Special Features
Pre-Work Required: Upon registration, you will receive a link to a twenty-six-question online benchmark assessment that measures where you currently stand on key productivity behaviors. You will have the opportunity to retake the same benchmark after applying what you have learned, allowing you to see exactly how much you have improved.
What Participants Receive:
- A comprehensive Participant Guide covering all course content
- A detailed Microsoft Outlook Technical Guide for implementing your new system
- A copy of The 5 Choices, a brief monograph with a companion notebook
- Three bonus video-based mini-courses with practical toolkits for continued development after the seminar
Course Outline
Learning Objectives
- Apply the latest science on brain health and cognitive performance to maximize productivity in every area of your work
- Build and use a shared language with colleagues to ensure consistent alignment around what is truly important versus what is merely urgent
- Recognize and implement what genuine, sustainable work-life balance actually looks like in practice
- Create a personalized, practical system for identifying, protecting, and executing your highest-impact professional goals
- Manage technology actively and deliberately so it serves your priorities rather than competing with them
