FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities

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Maybe you've heard about The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - the best-selling business book of all time. FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities is the anchor of the FranklinCovey Focus Solution. This one-day course teaches productivity skills integrated with a powerful planning system that helps employees clarify, focus on, and execute the highest priorities-personally and professionally.

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Course Description

FranklinCovey's best-selling workshop. This engaging, one-day presentation is highly interactive and packed with learning. Ideal for individuals at all stages of life, this workshop is particularly helpful if you've recently started a new job, entered a new phase of life, or embarked on the pursuit of a lifelong dream. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• FranklinCovey's world famous time management principles
• Master skills to plan your weeks and organize your days so your time is spent on tasks that really matter
• How to clearly define your goals and break them down into key tasks
• The ability to reduce stress by eliminated unnecessary activities
• Skills for mastering information management with a proven planning system
• How to balance work and life priorities

WHAT YOU WILL GET

• Participant Manual and Tip Sheets - these materials offer outstanding reinforcement of all you learn in the workshop and serve as powerful reminders of the resolutions you made. Reference pages include a recommended reading list, a quick productivity assessment, and more.
• FranklinCovey Planning System Kit - this complete starter kit contains the ssentials for implementing all you learn in the workshop. Kit includes one year of planning pages, planner binder, storage binder, essential mission/values/goals forms, and more.
• Pre- and Post-workshop Assessments - Take advantage of this powerful tool to measure your ability to focus on what is most important in your professional and personal life before your workshop. Then, return in 21 days to measure your improvement.
• Resource CD-ROM - This helpful resource offers an interactive tool to help you design a custom planning system that works the way you do. You'll also find software tools that will walk you ste-by-step through writing your Personal Mission Statement and setting goals. Plus, the CD contains a 30-day trial version of PlanPlus^TM for Microsoft^TM Outlook software.

Notes: Each workshop is a one-day event. Lunch will be provided, along with morning and afternoon refreshments. Parking is free.
 

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Facilitator Bio

Jan Richards
Franklin Covey Certified Facilitator
Phone: (979) 845-4370
email: j-richards@tamu.edu

Jan Richards is a Franklin Covey Certified Facilitator in select programs including: Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, FOCUS, First Things First, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective College Students, and The 7 Habits for Managers. Richards has 20 years of teaching experience, which includes being certified in vocational education by the Texas Education Agency and she holds a certification as a United States Parachute Association skydiving instructor and jumpmaster. She received a business administration degree from Corpus Christi State University and a master in education from Texas A&M University. She has worked in higher education for over 20 years.

Currently, she is the assistant director of the Office of Distance Education at Texas A&M. She lives with her husband, Jimmy on the outskirts of College Station with four cats and a big dog named Tiki. The Richards enjoy going for long drives in their 1974 Triumph TR6s - one red and the other purple - which Jimmy restored himself. They both belong to the Brazos Brits Car Club. Jan also is an avid bird watcher, book club member, Bunco player and scrapbooker. She traded-in her clock for a compass over ten years ago.

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Cancellation and Payment Policies

CANCELLATION

Participants are expected to complete their program of study. If for any reason, the participants are unable to fulfill their obligations, written notification must be submitted to the program director within 30 days of a scheduled module and/or class. A non-refundable cancellation fee will be assessed after payment due dates if written notification is not on file in the Continuing and Professional Studies Office, Texas A&M University. If notice is received thirty days before the scheduled class, participants will receive their fees minus a cancellation fee of 3% of the original fee. If notice is received less than thirty days prior to scheduled module, the students will receive their fees minus a cancellation fee of 10% of the original fee. Once a class has commenced, there are no refunds.

The University reserves the right to cancel or postpone its programs in the event of insufficient registrations, instructor illness, severe weather, or natural disaster. In the event of program cancellation, registrants will be notified immediately and all fees will be returned in full.

PAYMENT

If a module/class payment is not received on scheduled due date, your registration will be subject to cancellation. In addition, a late fee will be assessed for all registrations past the scheduled due date for payment.

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Contact Information

For further details about the course contact Jan Richards at (979) 845-4370 or j-richards@tamu.edu.