Global provider of management training and consulting services, Franklin Covey, has announced that the world tour of its newest offering, The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity, will visit three Gulf states in January for a series of complimentary workshops.

The GCC legs that kick off in Dubai on January 22, before moving to Doha on January 23 and Riyadh on January 30, feature a complimentary two-and-a-half-hour overview of the workshop, where leadership experts will present the business case and process for creating extraordinary productivity at all levels throughout an organisation to optimise results and increase profitability.

Vanessa Hopwood, Franklin Covey Middle East’s director of business development, said: “If despite distractions, employees deliberately and consciously choose to focus their attention on accomplishing the right things, and they learn how to effectively harness the opportunities and technologies available, they will experience extraordinary productivity.”

More than 17,000 people across the world have already attended the world tour of The 5 Choices in event cities including Washington DC, Helsinki, Mexico City, Tokyo, Sydney, Sao Paulo, Beijing, Delhi, Stockholm, Chicago, Mumbai, London, New York City, Cairo and Hong Kong.

“By clarifying and transforming employees’ key roles in life and effectively dealing with daily distractions, they can achieve extraordinary results, both personally and professionally,” Hopwood said.

With the launch of The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity, Franklin Covey is reframing the global conversation around time management and asserting that, for a focused and highly productive workforce, employees must demonstrate the following skills and be able to:

· Filter vitally important priorities from the flood of incoming distractions
· Re-define roles in terms of making extraordinary contributions
· Create a rhythm of planning and execution that ensures focus on extraordinary outcomes
· Leverage technology towards achieving the most important priorities, while reducing distractions
· Re-charge mental and physical energy to avoid exhaustion and burnout in a high-pressure work environment

“Employees today are overwhelmed with the demands of work, coupled with the barrage of texts, emails, tweets, blogs and other interruptions. The sheer volume of distractions, information and decisions they face daily threatens their ability to think clearly, creatively and strategically. If they react to stimuli without careful discernment, their ability to focus their finest attention on the important things becomes impaired, leaving them, their teams and organisations with only mediocre results,” Hopwood said.

“In contrast, if employees deliberately and consciously choose to focus their attention on accomplishing the right things amidst the distractions, and they learn how to effectively harness the opportunities and technologies available to them, they will produce extraordinary productivity,” she said. – TradeArabia News Service