Strong EAP and Mise En Place are pleased to offer a variety of learning opportunities. Whether for a team meeting, a departmental training session, or individual interests, these Workshops and Webinars are hands-on, participatory, and packed with tips, tools, and techniques that you can immediately apply to improve effectiveness on the job.

All Workshops and Webinars are offered at a discount, or are at no charge to Strong EAP clients. Payment options include: invoice, credit card, or personal check. Details are provided along with the course descriptions noted below.

Consider book marking this page as course offerings will be updated on a regular basis.

On-Campus Workshops

Seating is Limited in all sessions

Don't just tell people to work harder. Provide them with simple, specific and effective solutions that offer quick relief to workplace stress, frustration and anxiety.

GO stands for Getting Organized! The GO System, a proven course that helps you become more focused, organized and productive, addresses seven major issue that help significantly improve workplace results:

• Establishing strong foundational habits
• Processing incoming items § Prioritizing
• Using time rationally
• Effectively managing projects
• Understanding personality issues
• Understanding psychological issues

The bottom line - you'll get more done!

In order to remain competitive, even highly successful companies constantly look for ways to get more done, in less time, with fewer people. With the GO System, you will be able to help your employees:

• Ensure that time spent at work is quality, productive time
• Decrease productivity-killing stress and anxiety
• Improve their ability to follow up and follow through on assignments
• Improve their ability to quickly recover from unexpected interruptions
• Increase their contribution to the bottom-line results of your organization

Don't allow your employees, customers and profits to get lost in the shuffle and confusion of a disorganized, unproductive work environment. Implement the GO System and build your success on a sound foundation of highly organized people.

In addition to the high-impact ideas provided during the GO System session, each participant will receive a 64-page workbook that reinforces the main points of the classroom instruction.

To schedule a GO System Workshop for your team or department (minimum of ten attendees), please contact Mise En Place.

Now you can learn when it’s convenient for you. Depending on the subject, our Productivity Library offers a variety of learning opportunities including: videos, course notes, step-by-step user guides, implementation plans and more.

Managing E-mail

Pricing $69

Tired of being overwhelmed by your e-mail? Are you using your in-box as a “to-do list”, a contact manager, a calendar, or a filing cabinet? How many e-mails do you have in your in-box – 100…250…500…more than 1,000? If so, you aren’t alone! Click here to get you e-mail under control.

Upon completing our premier training course and implementing the tips that you will see demonstrated, you will have the ability to control your e-mail instead of it controlling you. Here is what you will learn and see as we work with our e-mail and show you how to effectively manage this incredible productivity tool.

• The proven secrets of managing e-mail
• Strategies for incoming e-mail management
  • Viewing the source of an e-mail
  • Adding a sender to the blocked senders list
  • Saving e-mails outside of Outlook
  • Saving e-mail attachments
  • Scheduling e-mail delivery
  • Dealing with junk e-mail
• Strategies for managing outgoing e-mails
  • Subject line shortcuts
  • Creating rules
  • Schedule outgoing delivery of your e-mail
  • Save "Sent" messages to a specific folder
• Overall performance and processing
  • Creating rules and filters
  • Effectively managing deleted and sent e-mail folders
  • Setting record retention guidelines
  • Checking the size of your mailbox
  • Backing up your Outlook folders
• and more!
  

Additionally, in the Productivity Library you will have access to the following course tools:

1. Course Notes
2. Tips, Tools and Techniques for Managing E-mail
   • A 20-page How-to Guide
   • Step-by-step instructions and visuals for Managing E-mail
3. Next Steps Implementation Guide

Once you have your e-mail under control, we would encourage you to view the bonus video that is included with this course. In this video we share a tool with you that you may find helpful for managing all of your to-dos!

To register, click here.

Managing the flow of information – whatever the source – is the key to being effective at work and in your life. All too often, we feel as if we are being bombarded with information – from cascading paper piles, to overflowing e-mail in-boxes, to our chaotic electronic filing system and more. The information that crosses our mental and physical thresholds is there to support our goals, objectives, and priorities. But does it?

How do you hold true to your vision and still integrate the changing economic environment, the bold new opportunities, the constant demands of your customers, and the myriad of other challenges? How do you best manage all of that new information, incorporate it into your overall game plan and keep your eye on the ball while staying one step ahead of your competition? Evaluate and adjust. Together, we will confirm your vision, assess where you currently are and then design and implement “course corrections” that may be needed. Without the ability to understand, use, and manage information, understanding how and when the world is changing becomes very difficult—making decision making challenging and frustrating.

Mise En Place can help you and/or your entire team(s) produce meaningful results, improve team and individual performance, and enhance the quality of ones professional, and by default personal, lives. Our Effectiveness Experts are trained to listen, to observe, and to customize the processes and tools that are being implemented to meet individual needs. We seek to elicit solutions and strategies from our clients; and to tap into their natural creativity and resourcefulness. Ultimately, we want to provide the support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that you already have.

Contact Mise En Place for more information. We look forward to hearing from you!

Ann Michael spent more than a dozen years building her expertise in training, sales, and sales management. As a top producing sales executive, being organized and “ready for anything” was instrumental to her success. As a result and years of best practices trainings, she is now a master of the 80/20 principle. Ann Michael shares her real life successes, experiences, and lessons, along with industry best practices with executives in an effort to get them on track and keep them there no matter what next “to do” gets thrown at them.

As a professional speaker, co-author of three books on productivity, and founder of Mise En Place, effectiveness and productivity improvement consulting firm, Ann Michael Henry is a master at helping business professionals focus on their business, not just in it. Busy professionals have constant demands put on them each day making for a potentially stressful work environment. By taking control of how information is management and delivered via e-mail, paper, phone messages, and even drop-in visits, professionals can breathe easier and prioritize better. Information is meant to flow, to move, to be available when needed and to move on when it’s not. Effectiveness Experts at Mise En Place train, coach, and mentor on the four cornerstones of an effective work environment—workload management, paper management, e-mail management, and electronic information management.

Some of the most common benefits clients have reaped include (but are not limited to): identify, clarify, communicate, and effectively work priorities; manage information better to support priorities; retrieve information on-demand; reduce duplication of efforts; improve decision-making speed, processes, and skills. Mise En Place provides professionals and their teams—anywhere within a business—the ability to utilize and master their time, energy, resources, and creativity more effectively. This, path to productivity ensures that time spent at work is quality, productive time; decreases stress and anxiety; improves ability to follow up and follow through on assignments and increased employee contribution to the bottom-line results of your organization.

Mise En Place and its team of Effectiveness Experts help individual professionals as well as entire departments and teams master the flow of information. Our objective – get you the information you need to support your priorities, the clarity to focus on the task at hand, and the ability to effectively execute your goals and objectives. Bottom line, we increase productivity. We focus on four core areas:

• Effective workload management
• Effective paper management
• Effective e-mail management
• Effective e-document management
  

Mise En Place’s unique approach has been specifically designed so that we work together with our client. We have created a personalized, sustainable, flexible, and scalable process that ensures a person or team of people have the information they need so that they can stay focused, organized, and productive no matter what challenges they face.

It boils down to being the best at what you do. You will become very successful at keeping all the balls in the air while being in control, staying calm, feeling confident, and functioning with a clear mind. At the same time, you’ll know that no task or challenge is too big to tackle—because you’ve mastered important organizational skills—you have a path to productivity®.