The Path to Productivity for Educators
The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity combines timeless principles with current neuroscience research to help educators make better decisions to consistently make choices that give the greatest return on time. Our jobs bring a wave of high-pressure demands —which can be overwhelming and exhausting. FranklinCovey’s research of more than 350,000 people worldwide shows that they feel they are spending at least 40% of their time on unimportant things. In this course participants learn to make high-value decisions using the 21st Century time management skills combined with a powerful planning process. It provides shifts in thinking and behaviour that will help you accomplish what is most important.
High Value Decisions
Get maximum return by focusing on what matters most to you personally and professionallyMake a Difference
Engage your ‘Thinking Brain’ – narrow your focus to make success determining decisions.
Focused Attention
Focused attention on the most important through a cadence of planning and execution.Big Rocks
A planning process to dramatically increase your ability to accomplish the important.
Stress Less, Fuel Your Fire
Increase your emotional intelligence with simple and critical drivers so that you can feel energised.Think Clearly
Learn principles of renewal for your brain to change behaviours creating new sustainable energy.
Extraordinary Productivity
Learn how to model “productivity behaviours” so that you can create a “culture of productivity.”Highest Priority
Choose to think and act differently with the 5 choices to achieve extraordinary productivity.
The 5 Choices Solution
The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity process measurably increases productivity of teachers, headteachers and schools. Participants learn to make better choices about where to invest their valuable, attention and energy. Better time management is no longer sufficient because of the continuous high-pressure demands in education. Yet, every person has the potential to be great and deliver outstanding results. To get these results, we need to do the right things which require the skills of decision management, energy management and time management.
Act on the Important, Don’t React to the Urgent.
This choice helps you to distinguish the important from the less and not important, as well as how to increase your ROM (Return on the Moment) in the midst of the many distractions. In today’s world, you are drowning in email, overwhelmed with demands, and trying to do more with less. With Choice 1, you will filter the virtually important priorities from the less and not important, so you can focus on what matters most.
Go for Extraordinary, Don’t Settle for Ordinary.
This choice helps guide your decision making through a framework of what success looks like in your current, most important roles. You want to make a difference, but competing priorities often prevent you from achieving extraordinary results. With Choice 2, you will redefine your current roles in terms of extraordinary results to achieve high-priority goals.
Schedule the Big Rocks, Don’t Sort Gravel.
This choice provides you with tips and tools to plan weekly and daily to execute with excellence by focusing on the most important things. The crushing increase in workday pressures can make you feel helpless and out of control. With Choice 3, you will regain control of your work and life through a cadence of planning and execution that produces extraordinary outcomes.
Rule Your Technology, Don’t Let It Rule You.
This choice provides you with tips and tools to make technology work for you, not against you. Turn your technology into a productivity engine. An electronic avalanche of email, texts, and social-media alerts seriously threaten productivity as never before. With Choice 4, you will leverage your technology and fend off distractions by optimizing platforms like Microsoft® Outlook®, Google®, and IBM® Notes® to boost productivity.
Fuel Your Fire, Don’t Burn Out.
This choice provides you with simple, yet critical ways to increase energy so you can think clearly, make good decisions, and feel more accomplished at the end of every day. Today’s exhausting, high-pressure work environment can burn you out. By applying the 5 Energy Drivers in Choice 5, you will benefit from the latest in brain science to consistently recharge your mental and physical energy.
5 Choices One-Day Course
- Understand the major education challenges of the 21st Century
- Articulate the language and methodology of “discerning” important from less important.
- Structure what extraordinary is in your most important roles.
- Implement Weekly and Daily Q2 Planning processes to identify, schedule, and execute on high-impact priorities.
- Explore how to manage appointments, tasks, contacts, notes, and documents.
- Understand the impact of brain health and the 5 Energy Drivers on day-to-day performance.
- Put together a process for implementing the 5 Choices.
What Clients Say
“Life is busy and getting more complex. People are working longer hours and doing their best to tend to their professional and personal commitments to achieve some version of work/life harmony. We’re all looking for ways to be as efficient and productive as possible. The 5 Choices provides realistic and useful frameworks to help focus energy and zero in on what’s most important.”
“Not only will The 5 Choices help you personally, its practical insights will help leaders everywhere create a culture where people perform at their highest level. Attend this course and get the right things done!”
“As a woman who is managing numerous roles, trying to meet and balance the many demands at work and at home, The 5 Choices provides a practical guide to cut through everyday distractions, make high-value decisions about where you spend your time, attention, and energy in order to feel accomplished at the end of each day. A game changer, professionally and personally!”
5 Choices Two-Day Course
- Consciously discern the important from the urgent or less important
- Teach others the language and methodology of importance for clear alignment.
- Clarify what extraordinary looks like in their current, most important roles.
Define and execute measurable goals to achieve role outcomes.
Master weekly planning processes to identify, schedule, and execute on high-impact priorities.
Master daily planning processes to ensure attention, energy, and execution on the high-impact priorities
Design a personalized, reliable system to manage all incoming: appointments, tasks, contacts, notes, and documents
- Turn Outlook® or Lotus Notes® into a productivity workflow engine to achieve high-impact priorities
- Identify applications that will help, not hinder, productivity. Understand the impact of brain health on day-to-day performance.
Use the 5 Energy Drivers to increase and sustain energy throughout the day to accomplish and enjoy high-impact priorities.
The Book
Teachers are paid to think, plan, teach, and develop excellence. But, constant challenges, increased workload and pressure to perform and the inability to communicate well can make teachers effectiveness and wellbeing suffer. The mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets within the 5 Choices Suite work together, enabling head teachers and teachers to perform at their peak every day.
Training Formats
These public events take place throughout the country and tailored to specific audiences.
Licensing provides the opportunity for you and your team to receive accreditation and the licences to deliver the FranklinCovey programmes yourselves.
