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What People are Saying:
"Thank you so much for training our team about Learning Styles. That was a very powerful investment in our time - the benefits are great. I'm using the information in many of my work relationships - it's been extremely helpful! Always good to be mindful of how different we all are."
~Julie Wheeler, Occupational Health and Safety Officer, USFS
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~Charles Bennett, Planner II, Jackson County
"Karen's time management strategies have increased my productivity level three-fold! I now have the tools to plan and implement a weekly schedule that is highly organized and efficient. I still have time to "put out the fires" that crop up on a daily basis, but no longer feel that those "fires" are controlling my schedule. In hindsight, I see that the stress I felt from work each day was not inherent in the work I do - it was due to a lack of proper time management. I now feel more in control of my schedule, and feel a higher level of job satisfaction. I highly recommend Karen's Time Management workshop to EVERYONE!! Thank You Karen."
--Brenda Cornett BrandViva "The Learning styles training has helped me to understand where conflicts arise in the workforce and how to deal with them. It has also given me great insight to communication styles that need to be addressed when providing information to people. Thanks for the training!"
~Robert Barnhart Central Vegetation Module Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
"Karen is very approachable and easy to be with, and answers questions thoroughly. ~Henry Saltonstall
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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results." ~Albert Einstein
How many things are you doing day after day that meet this definition? How many times do you leave an e-mail unread, intending to read it later, and find it still there months later? How many times do you think you leave on time for a meeting, but don't quite make it? How many times do you argue the same point with a co-worker and still fail to arrive at an understanding? Its 2010 now, maybe its time for a change.
 New Years resolutions inspire lofty goals that involve changing many habits of your life. Many, many of these goals fail, because the step to such a large change is just too big. Change is better made permanent by taking small successful steps, until you are so far down the road of change you can't go back. As an example, lets use one of the most common goals people want to accomplish, but never get to....managing their e-mail. Many of us (myself included) intend to properly manage our e-mails; read them all, file the ones we need to keep, and delete the ones we don't. But before we know it, we get a reminder that we need to delete several hundred e-mails because we have maxed out our limit.
Taking the time to sift through our e-mail archives is an overwhelming task, so we keep putting it off for when we have more time, until, well, there is that reminder again that we need to delete e-mails...However, as with many of our goals, this can be broken down into a more manageable timeframe. One way to start is to commit to just 5 minutes a day of time dedicated to managing your e-mail. By the end of the week, you have given 25 minutes to this task, and should begin to see a small dent. This builds hope that you just might be able to accomplish this goal, and hope is a powerful motivator to keep doing something different, and stop the insanity.
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