Services

Following are my most commonly requested time management consulting services. In addition, I happily offer customized consulting tailored to your needs, or the needs of your office or group.

On-site Consulting

• One-on-one desk-side consulting
• Executive Coaching
• Workshops
• Team Consulting
• Presentations and Guest Speaking

• Rent Matt's Brain!
• Extended Individual Coaching
• Overcoming Procrastination
• Six-week Jump Start and Daily Planning Accountability telecoaching series.

Because getting started with a new system can be daunting, I offer one-on-one desk-side consulting, the fastest and most effective way for rapid learners to get to a new level of relaxed control. We work one-on-one at your desk, collecting, processing, and organizing all of your "stuff" into a new system that we build from scratch, based on your needs. The process takes between 1/2 day to two full days, depending on your situation. Note that clients often ask me to take them through the process at both work and home.

At the end you will have:

• Collected and processed all of your "stuff" - every possible source of work for you, including papers, emails, voice mails, thoughts, ideas, post-its, etc,
• Created a 100% complete inventory of all your commitments, projects, "someday/maybes," and delegated items,
• Learned a comprehensive decision-making process for dealing with every possible item that comes into your life, giving it enough thought (but no more than necessary), then letting it go until the appropriate time,
• Created a reminder system that works for you, letting you make the best moment-by-moment choices of how to spend your precious time,
• Organized your loose papers into a simple but air-tight filing system,
• Done a complete "mind dump," capturing every idea, thought, and concern into your system, and
• Got control of your email, getting your INBOX empty.

Once you've learned the essentials of thriving in the face of too much to do, clients often have me back for for extended personal support. Via in-person or phone we work together to significantly improve your self-management habits and deepen your practice, all in the context of fast-moving challenges and large projects. Typical durations are three or more months.

Like the one-on-one consulting, but for workgroups, I meet with teams to get them up-and-running as a unit. We combine group learning and activities with individual desk-side consulting to provide a focused opportunity for achieving new levels of relaxed control.

For larger groups I offer workshops ranging from one hour to an entire day. These are economical and interactive, and allow participants to learn and apply the concepts using plenty of hands-on exercises. I combine lively short lectures with activities at the individual, small group, and large group levels. Some common formats:

• My 90 minute seminar introduces the main ideas and provides some hands-on experiences including a "brain dump" to capture everything that's on your mind, and processing it into action. This is a great introduction to the most important concepts in staying productive under modern demands and heavy workloads.
• My half day workshop covers in detail all aspects of managing the "incoming" in your life, including capturing projects, pulling out actions, ensuring air-tight delegation and follow-through, and implementing using your favorite tools and email. You leave with a complete list of all your commitments, knowing how to handle anything coming at you.
• My full day workshop extends the half day seminar to teach important "non-actionable" concepts and tools including crisp filing, making progress on reading, tracking not doing projects, and plenty of case studies like travel. This is the fastest and most comprehensive way to learn an air-tight personal system, short of my two-day intensive at your desk.

If you need highly targeted help with a specific productivity challenge, laser-focused "IdeaMatt" brainstorming power, or someone smart to bounce ideas off of, please give me a call and we'll figure out if I can help and how. If so, we'll schedule a session. If not, I'll point you to someone who can help you. Here's what one client had to say:

"I've hired Matt to help brainstorm on a couple of recent projects, and he's been incredibly helpful. Here's an example - One was a design for a large and important project that came up very quickly. I asked him to put his mind on it for only an hour, and I was simply flabbergasted at what he came up with in such a short time, including the range, uniqueness, and quantity of ideas. I was able to easily incorporate them into my recommendations to the client, who absolutely loved them. I looked great! The money I paid him was far, far exceeded by the results. If you're stuck, solving a problem, or just want someone to bounce ideas off of, you can't go wrong with hiring Matt." -- Mat Lebowitz, Founder, MLCREATIVE New Media Design (clients: American Express, Edelman PR)

If you'd prefer to work by phone, we will set up a program that fits your needs. Two popular ones are my six week Jump Start (custom-build your personal self-management system) and Daily Planning Accountability series (diagose and fix why it's so hard to make steady progress and have deeply satisfying workdays).

I'm often brought in for "Lunch & Learn" presentations as a fun way to learn some useful productivity ideas. I keep the topics light, but stimulating and useful. Some recent ones include:

• How [not] to sabotage your email (a lively 45 minute presentation that frames the email challenge via my "Get fewer, Get faster, Get control" perspective, fosters important discussions around cultural expectations, and provides some solid take-aways for immediate help)
• Add, subtract, multiply, divide: Productivity lessons from basic math (making better choices, improving priorities, controlling information overload, and leveraging automation),
• The time management input/output sweet spot (the fundamentals on reversing falling behind, and what "balance" really means),
• Three productivity mistakes you've already made today (out-dated time management habits and ideas that need replacing),
• The lifecycle of a thought, or, why 2 is the new 7 (capturing the ideas that keep you innovating and staying competitive).

For information about presentations and guest speaking please email me or call.