If you live in Portland, Oregon, or just want a great reason to visit this lively northwest city, here’s news for you. David Allen Company is presenting a Mastering Workflow for Business Leaders public seminar in Portland on Tuesday, July 10th. This seminar is ideal if you need better productivity solutions for a small team, large division, or your entire company. It’s based on the popular and effective Mastering Workflow seminar. You’ll get practical GTD implementation help for the challenging real-world issues that you face as a business leader. You can also network with other leaders from prominent, dynamic organizations who are already registered.

Click here for more information.

Since many organizations find extra value in encouraging workgroups to attend together, there are special rates for groups, as well as for Mastering Workflow alumni, not-for-profit employees, and GTD Connect members. To find out more please email customerservice@davidco.com.

For other Mastering Workflow for Business Leaders locations, click here.

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David Allen gets right to the point about productivity in this interview with the Washington Post. 

How to clear your inbox, make decisions and generally get things done

By Tom Fox, Published: June 13 The Washington Post

What are some of the biggest productivity problems that leaders face?

A lot of stuff banging around in their heads; and if not captured, you’ll be driven by the latest and loudest. Even if you’ve captured everything, but you don’t decide what it means quickly enough, then you become a compulsive list-maker. You’re still not getting anything done, and you’re just wasting time making lists. People must ask: What does this mean? Is this actionable or not? What is the outcome that I am committed to?

Many people make decisions when they blow up instead of when they show up. Even if you’ve decided what the next step is, you must be organized. And, even if you’ve captured, decided and organized, you will still face problems if you don’t step back, review and reflect on your decisions. The worst practice is to fall off of any of those steps and start working out of hope.

 Read the full article here.

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If you need to get on top of your Microsoft Outlook® email, calendar, and tasks by implementing GTD, this is the webinar for you.  You’ll learn the best recommendations for building a GTD system in Outlook to seamlessly handle your work and personal commitments.  It’s only 90 minutes, and it’s packed with tips and tricks that will start saving you time right away.

Wednesday, June 27, from 10am-11:30am Pacific Time

You can find more information about GTD Public Webinars by clicking here.

GTD® & Outlook® Webinar – June 27, 2012

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American business travelers took 445 million trips last year.  Between delayed or cancelled flights, uncomfortable accommodations and inconvenient downtime, most people find business travel to be frustrating and a drain on their productivity.

David Allen, the consummate road warrior, will present a free one-hour webinar on how he stays productive while traveling.

Stress-Free Productivity on the Road on June 5, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific / 2:00 p.m. Eastern.

In this educational and entertaining webinar, hosted by CLEAR and the David Allen Company, David will discuss how to:

• maximize productivity in the weird windows of time that show up when you travel
• utilize the email snack
• optimize the appropriate travel tools
• manage reentry into your home life without the post-travel collapse

Space is limited, so please click here to sign up now.

David Allen Company provides training and consulting services designed to increase performance, capacity and aligned execution for organizations and individuals.

CLEAR is a membership program that shortens travel times by providing members with exclusive access to expedited lines at airport security checkpoints.

To take advantage of a 3-month free trial with CLEAR, click here and enter CGTDCLEAR in the promo code field of the enrollment form. The code expires August 31, 2012.

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Mike Vardy of Lifehack.org interviews David Allen and Mike Williams, CEO of the David Allen Company. They talk about David’s role at the company these days, Mike’s experience bringing GTD into GE Healthcare, and a glimpse of what’s coming from DAC to expand GTD more fully in the global community. It’s available for download now on the David Allen Company podcast page.

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In a guest post on the Workshifting blog, read tips from Mike Williams, CEO for the David Allen Company (and vetted GTD coach!) on some simple ways to apply GTD. His post also includes an experiment for making your next meeting more effective.

Are there meeting tips that you have found helpful that others could benefit from? Share them here. Other GTD Times readers like to hear what works for you.

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What’s your level of GTD expertise? No matter what it is, these interactive and concise 90-minute webinars will deepen your mastery of the GTD best practices. David Allen Company offers these on an “a la carte” basis, giving you the flexibility and affordability to choose just the ones that work for you.

Keys to Getting Things Done®
This live Webinar will give a fast & fun overview on the keys for Getting Things Done, led by a Senior Coach. Learn about the best practices and tools for managing the five phases of your workflow: Collect, Process, Organize, Review & Do. Experience a “mind sweep” and walk through the decision making model for moving your input from “stuff” to clear outcomes and actions. Get tips for setting up a seamless system. A great overview if you’ve been wanting a better understanding of the “big picture” of managing your workflow with GTD.

February 16
March 15
April 19

GTD® & Outlook®
This live Webinar will give a detailed overview of the best practices for implementing GTD in Outlook. You’ll learn tips for setting up and managing Outlook Email, Calendar, Tasks, and Notes to support a seamless GTD system. See a demonstration of processing email (No, “inbox zero” isn’t an urban legend!) See examples of Task “contexts” and suggestions about how to structure your project and action lists.

Includes complimentary copy of our GTD & Outlook Setup Guide to assist you in your implementation of the recommended steps.

February 23
March 22
April 26

All webinars are held from 11am-12:30pm Pacific Time (California). Each webinar is $49. If you are planning on taking both, Keys to Getting Things Done is recommended before GTD & Outlook to build the foundation of best practices before the practical application.

Questions? Contact us at webinars@davidco.com.

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David Allen Company has just released a new Setup Guide that includes great coaching advice for structuring a solid GTD system in Lotus Notes. Written by David Allen and his senior coaches, this guide explains how to:

• Set up Lotus Notes To Do’s for your projects and actions
• Use the calendar as a critical foundation for actions
• Get email to zero consistently
• Create useful reference lists
• Organize contacts
• Move faster with speed keys and shortcuts

Instructions in the Guide are primarily written based on Notes 8.5, with helpful references to differences in previous versions.

Read a free sample from the first few pages

Buy now from the DAC Store

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What would your organizational structure be like if everyone had full accountability for the roles they hold, both implicitly and explicitly? Can you imagine meetings where the things that you have your attention on are consistently and efficiently processed to concrete Projects & Next Actions? Join David Allen and Kelly Forrister as they speak with the experts from HolacracyOne, Brian Robertson and Tom Thomison. They’ll talk about the “Holacracy” operating system, how it’s been integrated into the David Allen Company, and how it complements GTD.

This is the latest in a series of free podcasts.

[Editor's note: Good news for Chrome users, the podcast page is now Chrome-compatible.]

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This post on planning a baby shower is from the Art department at the David Allen Company.

Here’s a great reminder of how helpful GTD is for any project, personal or professional.

Our team at the David Allen Company is planning a baby shower for  a co-worker.  We met today to do the following:

1. Brainstorm and mind map the project
2. Decide on next actions
3. Assign people to the identified next actions
4. Decide when to loop around again for further planning

Here was our simple mind map that helped clarify the tasks:

Our 20-minute meeting allowed everyone to move forward on this fun project with their own clearly-defined tasks.

GTD can help integrate your professional and personal life. Simple, easy, and fun planning — that’s a “GTD” baby shower!

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