Business Efficiency Resources

Get More Done Seminars

Grooms Consulting Group, a sister company to Nova Vista Publishing, offers proven training that saves professionals one month or more of time wasted on email, information and meeting inefficiency.

• 83% of all professionals are overloaded by email – we can save up to 3 weeks a year, per person

• 92% want to improve their information storage system – we can make searches 25% faster and more successful

• 43% of all meeting time is wasted – we can save up to another 3 weeks per year, per person

“We saved 15 days a year!” Matt Koch, Director of Productivity Capital One Financial Services

Three Two-Hour Modules: We offer three powerful seminars: Get Control of Email, Get Control of Info, and Get Control of Meetings.

They can be delivered in any combination you wish and can be customized.

Who Should Attend? Anyone who handles email, stores information, and attends meetings. Leaders leverage their position for added impact.

Delivery Options: Seminar, keynote speech, webinar, e-learning, and executive coaching.

Return on Investment (ROI): We can measure the impact of every session on participants with five-minute online pre- and post-surveys. We deliver a report that shows time saved, productivity gained, participant satisfaction, and other significant impacts.

Special pricing is available for groups.

Three Get More Done Modules: Combine and Customize as You Wish

1. GET CONTROL OF EMAIL

• Pump up your productivity by eliminating unnecessary email

• De-clutter your jammed inbox

• Write more effective messages

• Discover time-saving Outlook^® / Lotus^® tech tips

• Improve email etiquette and reduce legal liability

• Choose the best communication tool

2. GET CONTROL OF INFORMATION

• Get organized, once and for all

• Never lose a document again

• File and find your information in a flash; make shared drives productive

• Make better decisions with the right information

• Create an ordered, stress-free folder structure throughout your system

3. GET CONTROL OF MEETINGS

• Meet less and do more through virtual and other advanced options

• Reduce costs, boost productivity and go green with improved, efficient virtual meetings

• Run engaging, productive live meetings

• Discover time-saving e-calendar tips

• Keep every meeting productive and on track, make follow-ups easy

Satisfaction Guaranteed

We guarantee that the vast majority of your people will rate our seminars “excellent” or “good”, or your money back.

“A huge hit with our people!” Joel Burkholder

Regional Program Coordinator – ACLCP

Contact: Kathe Grooms
[email protected]

Two Must-Read Books For Entrepreneurs

Time Out for Leaders: Daily Inspiration for Maximum Leadership Impact

Donald Luce and Brian McDermott

Leaders around the world recognize that daily reflection is absolutely necessary for defining values, establishing direction and pursuing vision. Luce and McDermott, two of the world’s leading international consultants in leadership development, help leaders take ten minutes a day to focus on the principles they live by and help those around them develop and prosper.

In an attractive page-a-day format, each workday features a pithy quote, a reflection, and an action. A great gift for leaders you know, and for the leader in you.

“It is lonely at the top. Leaders can benefit from a daily dose of courage and values in Time Out for Leaders and then approach their demanding tasks with renewed energy.”

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School

Time Out for Leaders (ISBN for hardcover 978-9077256-10-7, ISBN for softcover 978-90-77256-30-6) 272 pages, 145 × 190 mm (5 ½” × 7”)

Suggested retail price €19.95. $19.95 hardcover; €14.95, $14.95 softcover
Quote-a-day format; hardcover is jacketed with marker ribbon.

Social Styles Handbook: Adapt Your Style to Win Trust

Backed by a database of more than 2 million people, Wilson Learning’s

Social Styles concepts are powerful, life-changing communication tools. The ways people prefer to influence others and how they feel about showing emotion identify them as Analyticals, Expressives, Drivers or Amiables. You feel comfortable acting within your own style. But to relate to others well, you must consciously adjust your style to theirs. That’s Versatility, which improves performance in every aspect of your work and life.

Find your style and learn to recognize others’. Understand and appreciate the strengths and differences in each. Learn how to become Versatile while still being yourself. Important tools for recognizing tension and Back-Up Behavior and handling it productively, plus techniques for influencing others, have made this a best-selling book that delivers results.

“I’m not sure I can quantify the value of using Social Styles, but I know I would not want to do my job without it.”

Ann Horner, Main Board Director, Bourne Leisure Limited

Social Styles Handbook (ISBN Revised Edition 978-90-77256-33-6)

192 pages, softcover, 160 × 230 cm (6” × 9”)

Suggested retail price: €19.95, US$19.95

Models, charts, anecdotes, an index and other resources.

Now available in eBook formats!
www.novavistapub.com

 

CAREERS

I Just Love My Job!

Roy Calvert, Brian Durkin, Eugenio Grandi and Kevin Martin, in the Quarto Consulting Library (ISBN 978-90-77256-02-2, softcover, 192 pages, $19.95)

Taking Charge of Your Career

Leigh Bailey (ISBN 978-90-77256-13-8, softcover, 96 pages, $14.95)

LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION

Grown-Up Leadership

Leigh Bailey and Maureen Bailey (ISBN 978-90-77256-09-1, softcover, 144 pages, $18.95)

Grown-Up Leadership Workbook

Leigh Bailey (ISBN 978-90-77256-15-2, softcover, 96 pages, $14.95)

Leading Innovation

Brian McDermott and Gerry Sexton (ISBN 978-90-77256-05-3, softcover, 160 pages, $18.95)

SALES

Win-Win Selling

Wilson Learning Library (ISBN 978-90-77256-34-3, softcover, 160 pages, $18.95)

Versatile Selling

Wilson Learning Library (ISBN 978-90-77256-03-2, softcover, 160 pages, $18.95)

Time Out for Salespeople

Nova Vista Publishing’s Best Practices Editors, (ISBN 978-90-77256-14-5 hardcover with marker ribbon, 272 pages, $19.95; ISBN 978-90-77256-31-2 softcover, 272 pages, $14.95)

Get-Real Selling, Revised Edition

Michael Boland and Keith Hawk (ISBN 978-90-77256-32-9, softcover, 144 pages, $18.95)

SCIENCE PARKS, ECONOMICS, ECOLOGY OF INNOVATION

What Makes Silicon Valley Tick?

Tapan Munroe, Ph.D., with Mark Westwind, MPA (ISBN 978-90-77256-28-2, softcover, 192 pages, $19.95)

Visit www.novavistapub.com for sample chapters, reviews, links and ordering. eBooks are now available too!