Next Chapter Meeting is Jan. 20th
Achieving Exceptional Productivity
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Time: Networking and Lunch: 11 AM to Noon; Program: Noon to 1 PM
Place: Water’s Edge Conference Center
608 Mabry Hood Road, Knoxville, TN
Cost: $10 for chapter members, $15 for guests
Speaker: Mary Pankiewicz, Certified Professional Organizer
Program Description: Achieving Exceptional Productivity
With e-mail increasing by over 14 percent each year and disorganization resulting in up to one month of lost productivity each year, information overload is one of the biggest issues professionals face today, according to Mary Pankiewicz’s website, www.clutterfree.biz. Mary’s session will cover ways to receive and send more effective e-mail, shortcuts to eliminate unnecessary e-mail and ways to get the important ones read sooner. She will also cover clutter preventers, which are simple solutions that will reduce office distractions while helping maintain workflow.
Speaker Info: Mary Pankiewicz, CPO, CPO-CD, is a Certified Professional Organizer with additional certification in Chronic Disorganization and has an ADD specialist certificate. She divides her time between her two businesses: Exceptional Productivity Now!, for business and corporate clients, and Clutter- free and Organized, for residential clients. She is author of Fast, Easy Organizing Solutions for Paper Piles and Your Office.

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The Smoky Mountain Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) is an active group of professionals, whose primary purpose is to promote excellence, competence and the professional development of our members in the workforce learning and performance field.

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