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Getting Things Done With Work Life Balance
Author : Ben Sanderson
Submitted : 2011-12-27 05:58:02 Word Count : 532 Popularity: 0
Tags: Getting Things Done with Work-Life Balance, David Allen
The David Allen Company is a professional training, coaching, and management consulting organization that was founded in 1996 by David Allen, a veteran management consultant, trainer, and author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. The company gives seminars, coaching, and products that encourage best work practices.
David Allen's "Getting Things Done With Work Life Balance" series is a part of training programs firmwide. There are even public Getting Things Done seminars in major cities that provide an open door to anyone who wants to experience the program firsthand. Their website itself is full of free material, including but not limited to an e-newsletter called "David Allen's Productive Living."
There's an audio CD and MP3 download set from "Getting Things Done With Work Life Balance" that's particularly interesting that has overviews and examples of David Allen's program. David Allen discusses the importance of agendas, lists, changing bad habits, trusting the system, and the definition of "your game" on the free samples available on the website. "You have to think to know what to do" is one inspirational quote from this set.
There are also a series of Getting Things Done With Work Life Balance PDF files available for download for free from this website. Probably one of the best of these articles is "Getting Email Under Control", in which David Allen gives helpful tips for cleaning up your inbox. Here are some of the tips he uses:
Use the delete key - You can even arrange the emails by sender to make deleting them go quicker.
File - Archive emails in folders instead of your inbox.
Read the two minute ones first - If it takes less than two minutes it's best to read that immediately to get it out of the way.
Organize emails that need action - Organize them and then follow up on them to stay on top.
There's also a workflow diagram on the website that shows the "Getting Things Done With Work Life Balance" program at work in the area of processing and organizing. David Allen leads from one question to another with precision, asking the most important question first: "Is it actionable?" If not, it gets eliminated (trash), incubated (saved for later decision making), or referenced.
If it is actionable, we move on to the next step: What's the next action? One option is to turn it in to a project should it be something that requires a lot of time. Another option is to do it immediately if it can be done in less than 2 minutes. We can also defer for when we can do it or a specific date, or we can delegate it and keep track of its progress.
David Allen's "Getting Things Done With Work Life Balance" program is a very helpful program that answers the call of many employers to have more productive employees, as well as fulfilling employees' desires to have a less cluttered and rushed work day. Even if you can't go to one of their seminars, the CDs, MP3s, PDFs, or other products are all worth a shot.
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