Purpose
Research indicates that people who work primarily in the office spend on average about 2.5 hours a day on email and consider 30% of that time to be wasted. In the This study suggests a whopping $540 Billion is wasted each year in the US alone. Almost every task requires us to quickly find and leverage an email, file or other digital item. When this information is hard-to-find or lost, it blows a hole in workforce productivity that may impact the professional reputations of those who are supposed to be “information workers”. Add a few endless and meandering meetings to the day and it is easy to see how anyone can rapidly feel out of control in a flood of inefficient and low priority information.
The Get Control Series is designed and tested to quickly, easily and efficiently improve professionals’ information excellence through effective email communication, information retrieval, and meeting participation. Imagine, saving 45 minutes every day on email alone. By putting Get Control tools and skills into practice customers have measured a 15% productivity savings, and a 35% improvement in the effectiveness of meetings.