Empower workshop participants to reclaim their time.

Kitchen fire or time waster? The inability to differentiate robs us of precious time and well-being. Master trainer Lisa Downs has developed a collection of complete workshops and tools you’ll need to conduct effective two-day, one-day, and half-day time management workshop programs that teach how to reclaim time and productivity.

Empower workshop participants to strategically manage procrastination, negotiate priorities, and exercise control over how they spend their time by helping them develop their time management and productivity skills.

Complete with effective training methodologies, this book helps you accelerate learning and leverage technology for maximum efficiency. Workshop programs found in this volume make planning easy and can be tailored for the unique needs of your organization. Supplemental resources are available online and include downloadable and customizable presentation slides, handouts, assessments, and tools.

Lisa Downs, MS Ed, ACC, CPLP is a leadership development coach, facilitator, and consultant specializing in helping technical professionals and executives work at their best and achieve their desired business results. As president and owner of her company, DevelopmentWise Consulting, Lisa focuses on using assessment tools in her work with leaders and their teams to gain greater self-awareness of their behaviors, recognize the impact of those behaviors, and work toward who they want to be as leaders and as people to accomplish their goals. Lisa began her career in education in 1996, and has worked in workplace learning and talent development since 2003. Lisa’s previous corporate roles include working in learning and leadership development with the technology company EMC², The Boeing Company, PEMCO Mutual Insurance, and T-Mobile USA. She also has six years of experience working in the accounting industry, supporting CPAs with their learning and executive leadership development. Lisa served as chair of the ATD National Advisors for Chapters Committee in 2013-2014, a volunteer committee she began serving on in 2010. She is also a past chair of the ATD Chapter Recognition Committee and a past president of the ATD Puget Sound Chapter. She now facilitates a number of education programs for ATD, including the Coaching Certificate, the online and in-person versions of the Creating Leadership Development Programs Certificate, and Essentials of Identifying and Developing High-Potential Employees, an online program she developed for ATD. Currently, she is leading the project to design and develop ATD’s latest program in its Master Series, Master Coach, that she will also facilitate.

In addition to Time Management Training, Lisa is the author of Listening Skills Training and Negotiation Skills Training in the ASTD Trainers WorkShop series. She is also the author of Managing Learning Programs, a recent TD at Work publication, has been published in TD magazine, and has written blog posts for ATD’s Communities of Practice. As a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, she has also been featured as a contributor on Forbes.com.