The WorkingSm@rt Journey
The WorkingSm@rt method was created to meet the changing demands of a complex, modern business world, evolving with the challenges in business to provide the solutions that organizations need to be successful.
MORE TIME, LESS STRESS
WorkingSm@rt will give you back the most valuable of all resources: Time.
Time to spend on your next innovation, your staff, your customers, or simply time with your family and friends. When you feel in control of your day and it’s YOU making the decisions, you can focus on the activities you get most from and that bring you the most reward.
LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE YOU ALREADY USE
One of the many benefits of the WorkingSm@rt method is its ability to integrate with industry-standard business software and hardware configurations.
Many organizations, large and small, have a complex mix of systems, process and procedures that requires training be customized to match their specific needs.
WorkingSm@rt has this flexibility built in.
Take Control of your workload and competing priorities
Make collaborating with your team as easy as 1-2-3
Effective teamwork, collaboration, and communication
Get your meetings on time, on track, on purpose
Putting the plan into action
Take Control of your workload and competing priorities
Receive practical hands-on skills instruction to help you absorb proven techniques for a total time-management solution. Integrate communications, tasks, activities, planning and apply the WorkingSm@rt® method using Microsoft Outlook.
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Make collaborating with your team as easy as 1-2-3
The key to success lies in the ability for teams to work together without the constraint of being together. Whether the challenge is virtual, where geography is the issue or the reality of team schedules not lining up.
Effective teamwork, collaboration, and communication
At some point, every team feels a disconnect in collaboration and communication, but if it’s a lot of the time, then you and your team need a road map to improve the process and get better results.
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Get your meetings on time, on track, on purpose
Learn not only how to plan, organize and run a successful meeting but also how to get the most out of the meetings you are required to attend. Immediate benefits are: a ‘business planning’ approach to meetings, increased meeting effectiveness, saving time, improved meeting outcomes.
Following this training you will:
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Apply a proven planning process to meetings
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Design an effective agenda to increase accountability
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Run a meeting with a Bias for Action
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Know precisely how to prepare to attend a meeting
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Know how to keep a meeting on track
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Avoid the common pitfalls that create ‘meeting frustrations’
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Use a quick, effective process for evaluating meetings
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Identify virtual and hybrid meeting best practices.
Putting the Plan into Action
This half-day session includes a facilitated discussion on the skills learned during the training, and team decision-making on how those skills will be applied to create a shared common process.
Those decisions will be recorded, and Priority Management will create a protocol document (A Playbook) that will be provided to the team as a reference guide to ensure sustainable behavioural change, maximizing productivity and efficiency, and as a handy onboarding tool for new team members. If this session is completed prior to the participants’ coaching sessions, we can coach to your custom Playbook to ensure consistency across the team.
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​Define the major objectives coming out of the WorkingSm@rt program
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Mind map all the functionality the team needs to meet the daily and project objectives.
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Review initial draft and adjust to create a finalized document.
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Establish order and timeframe with the client to put in place the standards, expectations, and protocols.
Why WorkingSm@rt?
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Impact Survey - Results 2023
Over 2,530 companies and 32,750 individuals from around the world have completed our workshop effectiveness questionnaire since it was launched almost 15 years ago. In the last year more than 30 new companies and 254 individuals completed the questionnaire. When asked “How much time have you gained each day as a result of the program?” The average of all the respondents, for all companies was +54 Minutes per day per person.
The following are a few of Private Companies that have participated in the evaluation since it was launched in 2007:
Air Canada
Alcatel Lucent
ARCO
AstraZeneca
Autodesk
Baker Petrolite
Bechtel
Bell
BMW
Chevron
Citigroup
Del Monte
Dell
EMC
Enbridge Pipelines
FMC
Frito Lay
Home Depot
Infrabel
Intercontinental Hotels
Jaguar
KPMG
Land Rover
Michelin
Microsoft
Nestlé
Oracle
Pfizer
Qualcomm
Salesforce.com
Siemens
Standard Chartered Bank
Teck Cominco Ltd.
The Boeing Company Thyssenkrupp
Verizon
VISA Europe
VMware
Webex
Xerox Corp.
Federal Government of Canada Departments:
Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Canada Border Services Agency
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Canada Revenue Agency
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Canadian Heritage
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Canadian Space Agency
Canadian Transportation Agency
CBC/Radio-Canada
Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP
Correctional Service Canada
Courts Administration Service
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
Employment and Social Development Canada
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Finance Canada
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Global Affairs Canada
Health Canada
House of Commons
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Impact Assessment Agency of Canada
Indigenous Services Canada
Infrastructure Canada
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Justice Canada
Library and Archives Canada
Library of Parliament
Military Police Complaints Commission of Canada
National Arts Centre
National Capital Commission
National Defence
National Research Council Canada
Natural Resources Canada
Office of the Auditor General of Canada
Office of the Correctional Investigator Canada
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada
Office of the Taxpayers' Ombudsperson
Parks Canada
Parliamentary Budget Officer
Parole Board of Canada
Privy Council Office
Public Health Agency of Canada
Public Safety Canada
Public Service Commission
Public Services and Procurement Canada
Royal Canadian Mint
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Senate of Canada
Shared Services Canada
Statistics Canada
Transport Canada
Transportation Safety Board of Canada
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Veterans Affairs Canada
Women and Gender Equality Canada