Events

Start your new year with GTD

Here is how our 2011 GTD® Mastering Workflow public seminar schedule is lining up so far:

Atlanta – Jan 25, 2011

St. Louis – Jan 27, 2011

Chicago – Feb 22, 2011

Seattle – Feb 24, 2011

London – Mar 3, 2011

Washington DC – Mar 11, 2011

Los Angeles – Mar 15, 2011

Washington DC – Jun 24, 2011

This is a very tactically oriented, hands-on seminar on how to get your GTD system up and running. You will learn the fundamental GTD thinking process and start to build a trusted workflow system. Led by our senior presenters, who have extensive experience working with a wide range of people and organizations around the world. This one-day presentation is packed with practical recommendations and suggestions about how to put GTD to work for you—at work, at home and in everything you do.

We’re adding new locations all of the time, so be sure to check the schedule often, or subscribe to Productive Living, for a city near you!

We are always happy for your suggestions too.  Please leave a comment letting us know where you’d like to attend a GTD seminar.

Jumpstart GTD

Our next webinar on GTD Connect will come at a perfect time for many of you after the holidays. Two of our senior coaches are hosting a “Jumpstart GTD” webinar to give you tips, tricks and strategies to get your GTD systems in top shape for 2011.

Join us on Friday, January 14th from 10am-11am Pacific Time.

Free for all GTD Connect guest pass, monthly and annual members. To register for the webinar, log in to GTD Connect and follow the link on the home page.

Getting on Top of Your Projects and Priorities

There are four GTD Managing Projects and Priorities seminars coming up in November and December.  They will be held in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Boston.  If you’re ready to refine the GTD skills you use on your own projects, the Managing Projects and Priorities seminar is the place for you.  You’ll get plenty of specialized focus on how to manage projects to completion, from natural planning through next actions.  There will be opportunities to work with your projects in depth, so you can develop greater trust in your moment-to-moment decisions about priorities.

GTD Times readers who register by October 31 can use the code TIMES100 to get a $100 discount off the tuition for any upcoming Managing Projects and Priorities seminar.  (The coupon cannot be applied retroactively or in combination with other special rates.)

You can click here for all the details.

Webinar on Maintaining Control & Perspective in the Daily Grind

The next Webinar on GTD Connect, the online learning center for the David Allen Company, will be “Maintaining Control & Perspective in the Daily Grind.” It will be held on Friday, October 15th from 10am-11am Pacific Time.

If you feel like your productivity gets hindered by latest and loudest or you don’t feel in control or have as much perspective as you’d like, this one is for you.  Open to all GTD Connect subscribers (annual, monthly or guest pass).  This is part of the advanced “Black Belt” series running through October, for those who have the basics of GTD down and are ready for more of the sophisticated spins on GTD.

If you can’t make the live event, our webinars are always recorded for replay on the GTD Connect website.  Learn more

New graduate-level GTD seminar

Opportunity for GTD seminar graduates—we have just launched GTD Managing Projects and Priorities, a course designed for graduates of the GTD Mastering Workflow seminar, to dive deeper into the GTD models for planning projects and managing priorities. Debuting in 2 cities this fall:

Register before September 30 with the coupon code PRIORITY to receive an extra $50* off seminar registration. Email publics@davidco.com with any questions.  We look forward to seeing you soon!

(*This discount cannot be applied retroactively or combined with other special discounts.)

Digging out from backlog

The next Webinar on GTD Connect will be “Digging Out From Backlog”.  Two of our senior coaches will give you tips, tricks, and strategies for dealing with your piles of “stuff”.  If you feel like your backlog is holding you back from getting the most out of GTD, this Webinar is for you.  Free to all GTD Connect members (free trial members too).   Thursday, July 15 @ 11am PDT.  Register on the home page of GTD Connect.

Seminars with David Allen

David Allen will only be doing 3 public seminars this year, so here’s your chance to learn the system with the master himself. The GTD Making It All Work course offers a higher level, more theoretical overview of the GTD concepts. It’s a fun, informative, and engaging day whether you are new to GTD or have experience with the system. You’ll get the big picture of the process, including prioritizing, applying the core GTD principles, and making change stick. Coming to San Francisco, London, and Washington, DC.  Register before July 15th with the code TIMES10 to receive 10% off any of David Allen Company public events.

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David Allen speaking at Los Angeles area event

For those of you in the Los Angeles area, David Allen will be the featured speaker at an  event in Thousand Oaks, CA.

When: Tuesday, June 15th

Times: 7:30am – 9am

Topic: Creating Order Out of Chaos – Staying Afloat in a World of Too Much To Do

Learn more

This is a paid, in-person only event–not a Webinar. Please follow the link to learn more from the organization hosting this.

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For a Webinar with David Allen, the next one will be on June 23rd from 11am-12pm through our online learning center–GTD Connect.  David will be taking attendee examples to coach people through the GTD Fundamental Process (What’s the Outcome? and What’s the Next Action?)  Free to all GTD Connect members.  Register now on the home page of Connect.  Not a member? Try the 14-day trial.

Free Teleclass with David Allen & Les McKeown

Les McKeown, author of Predictable Success, is hosting a free Teleclass and David Allen is  a panelist.  They will discuss the roadmap to increase (and maintain) your sales, streamline your operations and achieve measurable success.  This is not specifically about GTD, but we wanted to pass it along in case it’s of interest to some of you out there in the midst of change and growth.  Here are the details:

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Upcoming Webinars on GTD Connect

We just finished the 3-part Road to Black Belt “boot camp” series on GTD Connect.  They have been some of our most popular and highly attended Webinars yet.  They are now available for replay on the Connect site (for free trial members too!) and through podcast (members only.)  You’ll find them all on the home page of GTDConnect.com.

The June Webinars on GTD Connect will be:

Natural Planning Model® -Thursday, June 10 @ 11am Pacific Time

Senior Coaches Wayne Pepper and Kelly Forrister will lead participants through David’s project planning model (described on p. 54 of the Getting Things Done book).  This easy to follow model helps you define your projects, from purpose to next actions.

Fundamental Processing Lab with David Allen – Wednesday, June 23 @ 11am Pacific Time

David will lead a Mind Sweep and take participant examples to walk through deciding what their “stuff” is and what they are going to do about it.

Note:  Webinars are always free for GTD Connect members and are available to free trial members who have active trials at the time of the Webinar