From Busy to Intentional

How can I be less “busy” so that I actually feel like I am getting something done? How can I be less reactive and more strategic? How can I add value rather than just reply to emails? If these questions feel familiar and even more pressing now, do not merely hope that next school year will be any different – as President Obama said, “Hope is not a strategy.”

Instead, kick off your summer with this interactive workshop on value, time, and project management. Over the course of three 90-minute sessions, you will learn and, importantly, put into practice, strategies for work efficiency. In addition, Andrew Davis will be available for a follow-up 30-minute Q&A at the end of each session. Andrew, a practitioner and evangelist of multiple productivity and time management tools, as well as a Head of School, will help you find the blend of strategies that will make your summer and 2025-26 school year more productive and rewarding.

This year Andrew will also share generative AI tools to reduce the “busy” and create space for the intentional.

Workshop Focus:

• Value mapping: Defining our “mission” work and clarifying our “maintenance” work.
• Project and calendar management: Keeping all the balls up in the air and moving in the right direction.
• Email: Shifting email from a burden to an effective tool for communication
• Workspace & Screen Management: Establishing an effective “mise” with everything in its place for success with a new twist for working from home
• Maintenance: Maintaining good habits as the volume increases when students, colleagues, and parents return in August.
• AI Assistance: Leveraging the power of generative AI to reduce busy work.

Our work will be grounded in David Allen’s “Getting Things Done,” Merlin Mann’s “Inbox Zero,” and numerous researchers and writers in the productivity space.

While this workshop is intended for anyone who feels too busy, it will be most effective for those who have projects to complete, multiple constituents to manage, and discretion in how they use their time. Attending with more than one person from your school will increase your chances of keeping these systems – and their benefits – alive during the next school year.

Participants will need a full inbox of email to triage (don’t we all have that?), and will also, ideally, have projects or goals in mind for the summer or 2025-26 school year.

By registering for this workshop, you will also be added to our mailing list to receive updates about future programs, resources, and events. You can unsubscribe at any time.

CANCELLATION POLICY

Life happens. We understand that there will be times when you cannot attend a workshop that you have registered and paid for. Registration may be transferred to a different person up to 7 days before a session. However refunds will not be given, and a session missed for any reason will not be refunded.

Below we have outlined our cancellation and refund policy, which we have in place to ensure the most accurate numbers when we secure well in advance locations, catering, and facilitators. Thank you for understanding.

For our ongoing programs or one-day intensives, refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 22 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 21 days or less prior to the first day of a workshop. A missed session that is part of an ongoing program is non-refundable and non-transferrable. For our summer institutes refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 30 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 29 days or less prior to the first day of a summer institute.

Please contact us by email as soon as you know you cannot attend a workshop. This will allow us time to contact our waitlist and hopefully fill your spot.