Look around you. Or look in the mirror. Do you see happy people creating value with pride
and efficiency, knowing that at 5 PM (OK, maybe 6 PM) they'll be able to go home and relax, satisfied
with completing a job well done?All over the world today knowledge workers like us - managers,
engineers, administrative workers - are living in a state of continuous stress, their ability to
realize their value to their employers slashed by email overload, ill-run meetings, incessant interruptions,
and worse. It is a safe estimate that productivity could be boosted by forty percent if only
someone could solve all these problems.
We can help. For 15 years Nathan has led the battle to empower knowledge workers to work
effectively in the complex environment of a large, global Fortune 500 and beyond. He was there,
down in the trenches. He knows what worked and what didn't, and why. It's been his passion and his
mission; it still is.
We deliver value through solution programs in the following areas:
 Solving Information
Overload
Effective meetings
Global
Distributed Team collaboration
Web
2.0 applications in the enterprise
Technical
Leadership Development
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The debilitating impact of the runaway email overload and non-stop distractions of this "Age
of the Blackberry" has been
well
documented. Nathan Zeldes is widely recognized as a global thought leader in this space. We
can help you reclaim your people's time and effectiveness through:
- Focused 2-hour Jump Start sessions that give a management staff the insight they
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- Half-day workshops that instill in attendees the understanding and commitment to
lead the required change in their group, along with a "starter dose" of tools, group expectations
and improved work processes.
- Long term, full scale change programs that will reclaim many hours each week for
productive work by optimizing group practices and tools.
- Personal skill training for coping with one's own Inbox rapidly and efficiently.
- Lectures to trigger awareness in management forums.
We can do this across any scope from departments to entire corporations.
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How
to get started driving the change
Meetings are the lifeblood of any organization, yet in most companies they've degenerated
into Dilbertesque time sinks where nobody listens (they do email!), and decisions are made haphazardly
at best. We can help you with:
- Assessing the problem and its root causes in your group.
- Establishing new meeting methodologies with your staff.
- Training your people in Effective Meeting concepts and practices.
Just imagine - a reality where all meetings are short, sensible and focused!
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Trust is crucial to teamwork, and face to face contact is critical to trust; yet in today's
workplace teams are all too often composed of people that have never laid eyes on each other. It
is possible to work effectively this way, but only if you overcome the challenges imposed
by culture, language, time zone, and technology barriers. We can help you with:
- Studying your situation and identifying, with your team leaders, agreed expectations
and methods to enhance virtual team effectiveness.
- Workshops to train GDT members
in effective virtual collaboration.
- Coaching selected teams to help them assimilate
the required changes.
- Helping your IT group in deploying and optimizing collaboration tools.
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New "Web 2.0" Social Media tools (Wikis, Blogs, communal bookmarking, RSS
readers, and many others) can contribute to your organization's success in exciting new ways -
or they can make the overload worse. Everything depends on adapting them correctly to your
organization's needs and culture.
We have the expertise to help you realize their potential safely:
- Workshops and lectures to management, to educate them about the new tools, their
high potential and their inherent risks.
- Helping you develop a policy around which
tools to adopt within the enterprise firewall, and which external tools to permit/forbid employees
to use at work in order to maximize benefit while containing the risks.
- Training employees
in the effective application of social networking tools.
- Helping your IT group in
deploying and optimizing Social Media tools.
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Most organizations have programs for manager development; but few pay similar
attention to "Individual Contributors" – professionals who prefer
to pursue a technical career. The usual outcome is that these precious human resources are forced
to either become mediocre managers, or leave the organization with their know-how. Developing a
parallel career ladder without managerial elements is no trivial matter, but we've done it successfully
before and we can help you with:
- Developing with your HR group a technical career path.
- Delivering lectures
that break the mistrust around such a path.
- Coaching workshops designed to develop
technical leaders.
- Defining a technical mentoring program.
By integrating these elements to an optimized whole, we can help you tie your technical leaders
into a proud community whose members help each other while developing to their full potential to
the company's benefit.
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We also bring significant experience in the following four areas - call us to discuss cooperation
options around these:
- Mobility, Telecommuting and Work/Life Balance
- Alternative Office paradigms
-
Knowledge Management
- Driving Innovation
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- A key insight from our experience is that solutions
involving behavior are never trivial, and require adaptation to each organization's culture
and needs. Because of this, we don't offer "canned" solutions; we always work with you,
both before and throughout an engagement, to steer a course that will bring your
group the best value.
- Therefore, the first step
is always to talk and explore possibilities.
- The ball is in your court - contact us to set
time for a conversation!
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A senior engineer told us he bought Harry Potter in the e-Book format, to be be
able to read it to his son at bedtime while doing email at the same time.
Of course, you can believe it. Your Inbox probably looks the same as this sad father's
does. But do you know that a typical knowledge worker stops what they're doing and start on something
else once in 3 minutes on average? Or that they waste one day a week on processing
unnecessary email and interruptions?
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The first step is always to talk and explore possibilities.
The ball is in your court - please contact us to
set time to meet!
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