Less is more

The last minute holiday gift may be as easy as 1, 2, 3--for your Kindle or iPhone!

If somehow you are still looking for that last minute holiday gift, or belated gift, the Accomplishing More With Less Workbook (paperback or Kindle Edition) can come to the rescue!This is not the typical gift. It is different and it can make a difference. And if your lucky “giftee” has a Kindle or iPhone, The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook Kindle Edition can be on their Kindle or iPhone as easy as 1,2, 3, not to mention cost effectively.

Here is what some of our readers had to say about the Accomplishing More With Less Workbook

"I opened the workbook thinking - oh just another 'how to'. I was instantly struck in the first few pages. Set aside the time for the projects (stop the e-mail frenzy and other distractions). I read the book over the weekend and started my concentrated project time on Monday. Wow - did I accomplish a bunch, in only one day. That tip was just the beginning of a new way to work. THANKS"

"This book changed not only how I handle things at the office, but at home as well. The piles of paper are gone. I can see my desk at work and my dining room table at home. And, I can find what I need at any given time. Same for my e-mail. This will be the Christmas gift for my staff, brothers, nieces, and nephew. Don't understand why they don't teach these techniques in high schools and colleges."

See the full reviews and more reviews at Amazon.com

The holidays are here and the kindle drawing is upon us, 17 down and 3 more reviews to go!

Since the release of the Accomplishing More With Less Workbook in September, it has been very rewarding to hear from the readers about the impact that it had on them. It has also been rewarding to see many managers get the book for their teams to help them through these challenging times and bring the benefits of the Accomplishing More With Less Methodology to them cost effectively at times where budgets are scarce and training is put on the backburner, exactly when people need it the most. You can see the reviews of the book at Amazon.com and see how the different ways in which readers are benefiting from it.

You can still win the Kindle

If you have already gotten your copy of the book, and didn’t get a chance to post your review at Amazon.com, there is still a chance for you to be part of the Kindle drawing (we are accepting 3 more entries, which would be the next 3 readers who post their reviews).

If you haven’t gotten your copy of the book yet, even though it may be too late to be part of the drawing (Unless you get the Kindle Edition for your Kindle or iPhone and you happen to be a fast reader), it is not too late to benefit from the methodology and experience first hand what people are referring to in their reviews. This may be after all the best holiday gift you can give to yourself and your friends and colleagues.

Either way, you win!

Your Productivity Gifts Wish List, and what to add to it!

If you are done with gifts for 2009, this may be a good list to start for 2010. If not, here are some ideas to add to this newly created list:

	A new smartphone such as the iPhone or Motorola Droid that will help you be productive on the go
	An eReader such as the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook that will help you renew your interest and commitment to reading and exploring
	A countdown timer that will get you to focus and achieve breakthrough productivity gains
	A journal (Moleskine or Levenger) that will help you capture important notes and insights
	The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook (Paperback, or Kindle) that will help you use all of the above and change the way you think about stuff.

Start this Productivity Gifts Wish List now and tell your Santa now!

The complimentary Results Curve(tm) eBook is now available--give your team the gift of productivity!

The Results Curve eBook(tm); How to Manage Focused and Collaborative Time is now available. Don't let one more day go by with everyone is being interrupted and interrupting everyone else! Discover a whole new world of productivity inspite of the information overload.

Download The_Results_Curve_tm_eBook

"The digital revolution should make us all incredibly efficient and productive. The tools at our fingertips — easy multimedia production software, instant and free communication around the globe, massive research power without needing to get up out of our chair — should allow us to complete tasks in hours instead of days and leave us more leisure time than we could ever have imagined. And yet this promise of efficiency seems to be just a little beyond where we are right now, somehow always eluding our grip. We can’t seem to get there.

Our work environment is one of great onslaught. We struggle to get done on Friday what we had hoped to achieve the previous Monday. Why is it so difficult to do the things we really want to do?..."

Download The_Results_Curve_tm_eBook now and Keep on reading!

Learn more about The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook at Amazon.com (on which the Results Curve(tm) is based).

Join us in making the workplace a better place

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Did you wonder what more can you do with Excel 2007 Lists and PivotTables? Here it is!

Microsoft Excel 2007 offers many unique capabilities in managing lists, ranging from validating the data, formatting it, using filters to viewing desired subsets of the data, to using powerful database functions and summarizing important information quickly and easily. But it doesn’t stop here. PivotTable Reports get into the picture to help you build useful reports in minutes and modify them easily to answer a variety of business questions and therefore get unique insights from your data. 

 

Kim Silverman, VP of Productivity at People-OnTheGo, who has taught hundreds of the People-OnTheGo webinars helping thousands of participants take their skills to the next level  in many of the Microsoft Office Applications, shared some important insights about Excel 2007 lists in our weekly lunch & learn webinar this week, and gave an overview of what PivotTables can do.

 

Webinar Recording is now on Facebook

 

If you missed this session, you can see the recording on Facebook at the Accomplishing more with less group. Search for the group, and join it, and then once you're in the group page, scroll down to the videos (on the left side of the page) and find Kim's session.

 

Want more comprehensive Excell 2007 techniques

 

These three online live workshops (via web/phone conferencing) are coming up soon (soon as in next week--see below how you can get a free class):

 

The Excel 2007 Techniques

The Excel 2003 Techniques

The Advanced Excel PivotTables(covers both Excel 2003 & 2007)

 

Do you want to get in one of the above Excel workshops for free?

 

All you have to do is purchase The Accomplsihing More With Less Workbook at Amazon.com($24.95) and as soon as you get the workbook, please forward the Amazon confirmation e-mail to  training@people-onthego.com, and indicate which workshop you would like to attend at no charge (value is $69 to $99). By the way, your free seat will still be valid in the first quarter of 2010 if you don't get to attend your free workshop before then!

 

See what others are sayingabout the book on Amazon.com!

Invest $25 and get $35, $69, or $99 immediately! But there is a small catch!

Oh well, let us reverse the trends in which investments and returns are sinking and shrinking!

You get a free workshop (value $35 to $99--refer to workshop schedule for a list of workshops) when you invest $24.95 in getting The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook at Amazon.com. But hurry this won't last too long. 

As soon as you get the workbook, please forward the Amazon confirmation e-mail to   training@people-onthego.com, and indicate which workshop you would like to attend. By the way, your free seat will still be valid in the first quarter of 2010 if you don't get to attend your free workshop before then.

These are online live workshops that you can attend from anywhere!

So what is the small catch?

The small catch is that as a result of the breakthrough techniques presented in The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook, which will allow you to get the benefits outlined below, you will have more time to spend money (but please invest it wisely)!

What the Accomplishing More With Less Workbook will enable you to do

1. Better manage interruptions and stay focused on the task on hand until meaningful results are achieved while being responsive to the demands of your team and collaborate more effectively than ever before.
    
2. Work more strategically instead of working harder, methodically manage competing priorities, and learn new and innovative tools that can help you better align your daily activities with your goals.
    
3. Organize and manage your electronic and paper information easily and efficiently via a duplicate process that is practical and doable, instead of having your day “run over” by  information and “low impact” activities.
    
4. Manage stress like never before through purposeful action rather than passive reaction and turn stressful situations into opportunities.
    
5. Understand the obstacles that are stopping you from reaching your desired accomplishments, and take the necessary actions that will lead to growth and transformation, and significantly increased fulfillment.

See what others are saying about the book!

 

How do you do a book reading and signing "virtually"? Here is how! Join us 11/12 or 12/2

Last week we did it! And we will have it again on 11/12 and 12/10. It is a book reading and signing webinar for The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook which we released recently at Amazon.com. The webinar starts with an intro about the book and how it developed, and proceeds into selected readings about a variety of topics which include:

• The Myth of Multitasking
• Filing messages
• Working strategically
• Starting the day with intention
• The Immediately Priorities Matrix™
• Managing stress

How does the “signing" part work? You might ask!

For those who purchase the book before or during the lunch & learn webinar from Amazon, and e-mail me their info, I "mail" (the good old snail mail) to them a signed card and include a signed gift certificate that would allow them to attend one of the People-OnTheGo online live workshops this Fall (or in Q1 2010 when the schedule is available) at no charge. It was a nice blend of the virtual and real worlds!

The recording of the last book reading is available on Facebook

If you cannot make the live webinars, and you're interested in learning more about The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook and hear about the topics listed above, visit the "Accomplishing more with less" group in Facebook and see the video!

Check out the book reviews on Amazon!

This holiday season, give a different kind of gift!

What is the most precious thing that we all dream of having more of, and yet we find it virtually impossible to do so?

What I had in mind is “time”!

If we cannot create more time, maybe we can find innovative and unique ways to better utilize our time and feel accomplished instead of feeling hectic and overwhelmed and victimized by the information overload.

This holiday season, when you start to think about what special holiday gifts to get to your friends and family, or your colleagues, think outside the box. Think about the Accomplishing More With Less Workbook now available at Amazon.com. This will come just at the right time. The time when they are finishing the year and seeking ways to improve and start 2010 with a positive momentum. It would also be the perfect gift to add to your wish list or even treat yourself to.

By the way, this is what one of our readers indicated in their Amazon.com review

“I opened the workbook thinking - oh just another "how to". I was instantly struck in the first few pages. Set aside the time for the projects (stop the e-mail frenzy and other distractions). I read the book over the weekend and started my concentrated project time on Monday. Wow - did I accomplish a bunch, in only one day. That tip was just the beginning of a new way to work. THANKS”

More from the Accomplishing More With Less Workbook

Download The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook--Table of Contents

Download The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook--Introduction

Download The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook--Extract from first chapter

Generations in the Workplace--Gen X in Action! by Adam Christensen

What a better way to get more insights about Gen X’s work style and preferences, and how to best work with them, than to talk to Adam Christensen, who in addition to being a Gen X himself, manages an organization that spans across generations, geographies, and time zones. Adam, as the CTO of HR Systems at Wells Fargo, is responsible for all enterprise employee-related systems at Wells Fargo, including over 150 applications that provide employee portal, social networking, eLearning, payroll, benefits, recruiting, analytics and many other services to the Wells Fargo employees, managers, and contractors worldwide.

 

In this lunch & learn webinar last week, Adam provided his insights and shared his experiences relating to the generations in the workplace, focusing on Gen X, and touching on the topic of how generations can work together more effectively.

 

The recording is on Facebook!

 

To view the recording of the webinar, visit Facebook, and once you login, please search for the "Accomplishing more with less" group, and then in the group page, scroll to the bottom to see the videos, which include this recordings.

 

Hope you will be able to join us in future webinars! Next week's webinar is "Twitter 101: Gen Y Teaches Us Twitter" by our returning guest speaker Jenny Blake.

 

 

Special offer, today only (Fri. 10/16): Outlook, Excel, SharePoint Webinars!

Today's special offer not only gives you access to these webinars at the reduced $35 fee, but if you purchase one seat, you get to attend all three at no extra charge.

Once you purchase one seat at the $35 fee (in any of the three Webninars that are taking place next week), you can forward your receipt to training@people-onthego.com and request to be registered for the other two.

Microsoft SharePoint Techniques

October 20, 12:00pm PT, 2 hrs ($35 if purchased today)

Microsoft Excel 2007 Techniques

October 22, 9:30am PT, 90 min ($35 if purchased today)

Managing & Organizing Your Inbox in Outlook 2003

October 22, 11:30am PT, 90 min (35 if purchased today)

Hope you will be able to join us!

Questions? E-mail training@people-onthego.com or call 415.503.1649