The services provided by Shiffman Consulting are customized to
meet the specific needs of diverse individuals and organizations. These services all revolve around a
theme of Relaxed Productivity, which is a seamless, low-stress route to being
effective across changing priorities.
For many professionals today, the pace of tasks and
information flowing into their workspace is too rapid to be handled by
traditional “time management” methods.
The key to Relaxed Productivity is individual workflow management. The fastest way to master this is with
one-on-one coaching, in your workspace. For most professionals, we suggest
allowing two full days, with minimum interruptions, for this process. During this time, we work with the
individual to capture and process all the things competing for his or her
attention. It is here that a
personal organization system is developed to enable informed, rapid choices
about what action to take, increasing productivity and reducing the “gnawing
sense of anxiety” that things might have fallen through the cracks.
What does this personal organization system look like? It’s up to you, and depends both on
your style and the volume and type of input you deal with. We’ll help you design it, using any technology
from the latest and greatest high-tech electronic organizer to a few manila
folders and a yellow legal pad. Other
options can include: Franklin Planner, Dayrunner, Time/Design or PC and
network based organizers; whatever meets your needs. You’ll use this personalized system
to review and update your projects and actions, keeping the whole process
alive, and enabling you to sustain the improvements.
While all this sounds simple, we see immediate and
sustainable personal productivity improvements of 20% or more for the majority
of our clients, and in some cases substantially more. Working with several colleagues from a
single organization, these methods also provide a common language of
effectiveness that can dramatically impact the success of meetings and
projects involving several people, bringing further benefits to the entire
organization.
In addition to individual coaching, we offer presentations on workflow management
and other topics, and other services such as meeting and project
facilitation, negotiation and decision support, or strategy development
assistance.
Feel free to contact
us for further information.
