The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity

The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity course draws on decades of research and practice from the world's leading thinkers on personal productivity. This FranklinCovey seminar, delivered through AMA, gives you the tools and frameworks needed to maximize your effectiveness at work and in life.

For many of us, the demands of a career can feel relentless. Combine those pressures with the constant flood of incoming information, and the result is a level of distraction and exhaustion that makes it hard to focus on what truly matters. Without deliberate, discerning responses to that constant pull, we find ourselves reacting to everything around us rather than acting on what is genuinely important, and the goals that matter most end up delayed, compromised, or abandoned.

This seminar integrates the latest neuroscience research with proven productivity principles to help you manage your decisions, protect your attention, and sustain your energy more intentionally. You will apply a structured process that incorporates Microsoft Outlook as a productivity system to dramatically increase your ability to achieve the outcomes that matter most, both professionally and personally. This solution produces measurable gains in productivity and can restore a meaningful sense of engagement and accomplishment in your daily work.

To get the most out of this course, bring a laptop for a fully hands-on experience.

Who Should Attend:

Business professionals at all levels who are ready to apply practical tools to maximize their productivity and achieve more of what matters most.

How You Will Benefit:

• Apply the latest brain science to maximize your workplace productivity
• Use shared language with colleagues to stay aligned around what is genuinely important versus urgent
• Achieve lasting, authentic work-life balance
• Build a personalized, practical system for tracking and executing your highest-impact goals
• Take control of your technology so it supports your work rather than drives it

What You Will Cover:

Choice 1: Act on the Important Instead of Reacting to the Urgent

• Distinguish the truly important from the merely urgent
• Teach others a shared language and methodology for prioritizing what matters

Choice 2: Go for Extraordinary Instead of Settling for Ordinary

• Define what extraordinary performance looks like in your most important current roles
• Set measurable goals and execute on them consistently

Choice 3: Schedule the Big Rocks Instead of Sorting Gravel

• Apply a weekly planning process to identify, schedule, and execute high-impact priorities
• Use daily planning to protect your attention, energy, and execution capacity

Choice 4: Rule Your Technology Instead of Letting It Rule You

• Design a personalized system for managing appointments, tasks, contacts, notes, and documents
• Turn Outlook into a high-functioning productivity workflow engine

Choice 5: Fuel Your Fire Instead of Burning Out

• Understand the direct relationship between brain health and daily performance
• Apply the 5 Energy Drivers to sustain your mental and physical energy throughout the day

Special Features

Pre-work Required: Upon registration, you will receive a link to a 26-question online benchmark assessment measuring your current productivity behaviors. You will have the opportunity to retake the assessment after applying what you have learned.

What Attendees Receive:

• Participant Guide
• Microsoft Outlook Technical Guide
• The 5 Choices: a brief monograph with notebook
• Bonus Modules: three video-based mini-courses with supporting toolkits

Outline

Learning Objectives

• Apply the latest brain science to maximize productivity
• Use shared language to align with others around what is important and urgent
• Achieve genuine, consistent work-life balance
• Build a practical, personalized system for managing high-impact goals
• Take command of your technology rather than being driven by it