"90% of managers squander their
time in all sorts of ineffective activities, rushing from meeting to meeting, checking their email constantly and fighting fires, thinking they are attending to important matters, they are really just spinning their wheels."
Harvard Business Review 10-Year Productivity Study, 2002

Mission Control is an exciting new approach to corporate productivity that provides a dramatic increase in the productivity and effectiveness of your team, while reducing workplace stress.

A study of Mission Control training and coaching with 200 staff, found an adoption rate of 82% after 90 days. The participants in this group had an average recovered time of 2.4 hours per day, as a result of better focus, planning, meeting preparation, email management and from learning to negotiate out of unnecessary interruptions and activities.

Mission Control was awarded the Top US Training Program for 2003 by Human Resources Executive Magazine and was recently profiled in Business 2.0.

The Myth of Productivity - Most people believe that productivity is a function of knowledge, organization or efficiency, and therefore believe that they can improve performance and increase results by providing access through tools, information and efficiency training.   Recent research shows that these approaches are limited or outdated, and do not directly address the explosion of information and technology that people face in the 21 st Century.  

Productivity in the 21 st Century - Last year, the Information Productivity Council's CEO Summit, held in with MIT, identified knowledge worker productivity as the biggest issue facing Fortune 500 CEO's. A ten-year study, published in the Harvard Business Review, showed that 90% of the time spent by employees and managers is unproductive "busy work."

Addressing productivity requires an approach that extends beyond providing new software or training in efficiency or time management.   It requires that employees and their managers develop the capacity to build new work habits that enable them to be productive and effective in the face of increasing demands in the work environment.   

Mission Control - The Future of Productivity(TM) Mission Control's programs are rooted in the recognition that common approaches to improving productivity have not effectively addressed the dramatic increases in the speed, volume and complexity of the work environment that have occurred in the last 5 -10 years.  

Mission Control programs enable participants to directly address and increase their own productivity.   Participants learn that productivity is a function of their own work habits.   They are able to identify non-productive work habits and begin building new work habits that provide an immediate positive increase in their productivity and effectiveness.  

Through these increases in productivity and effectiveness, participants are able to demonstrate greater focus and accountability, manage their projects and commitments more effectively, and realize key individual, team and organizational results.

Life today is faster and more complex. Working in the 21st Century is challenging. We're deluged with information. Tortured by impossible deadlines. And overwhelmed by high-spiraling expectations. No matter how well organized we are, we simply can't get it all done. You haven't learned to work in the 21st Century.   The 20th Century techniques for personal productivity - tools that were developed more than 30 years ago - are simply insufficient for the demands of today's work environment.

"Using Mission Control you will find yourself accomplishing what is important to you. You will double your productivity while cutting your stress in half."

Mission Control provides an entirely new way of thinking about, organizing, and managing your work and your life. In our workshops and programs, you learn how you developed your work habits unconsciously over time - as a strategy for dealing with everything coming at you. You see how these familiar and established work habits are actually obstacles to your productivity.

You will be able to build new work habits for dealing powerfully with the flood of demands, tasks, activities, problems and opportunities coming at you - work habits that leave you more confident, focused and effective. Using the Mission Control system, you will be able to focus completely on what is in front of you and bring all of your intelligence, creativity, and natural ability to bear on your work.

"The average workers functioning IQ drops 10 points when distracted by ringing phones and constant email, more than double the 4 point drop seen from smoking marijuana" HP/University of London, 2005 Study

What Makes working in the 21st Century so challenging ? Over the past 10 years, there has been an explosion of technology and information. The speed, volume and complexity of work have increased dramatically and we are unprepared for this change. Our lives are moving faster and growing more complex.

Your work habits are causing your stress - not your work. Your work habits do not prepare you to work in this fast-paced and demanding environment. Most of our established and familiar habits for being productive were created and popularized nearly 30 years ago and leave us unprepared for the speed, volume and complexity of our work and our lives.      

"Mission Control delivers a breakthrough in your productivity - while cutting stress in half. Real breakthroughs in productivity don't happen until people become aware of their unexamined, unconsciously-triggered work habits and turn them into new practices for managing work effectively," says Brian Stuhlmuller, Founder of Mission Control.   "We've created a whole new approach to work - new tools and practices that, when implemented, enable people to break the vicious cycle of stress and overwhelm commonplace in work environments today and to produce outstanding results."

Mission Control Corporate Programs: Mission Control has worked with hundreds of companies and teams to deliver new levels of corporate productivity, effective team communication, organizational accountability and cohesive leadership. Mission Control is ideally suited for middle managers, executive management and their personal assistants and information workers that work with unstructured time. Mission Control has been demonstrated to deliver a powerful  a productivity ripple effect when entire teams and multiple levels of management engage in a program. Mission Control delivers a complete blended learning solution with live instructor led training, online web-based learning modules and onsite or telephone coaching, including:

Pre-Course Work - Prior to the Mission Control Workshop participants complete a series of customized pre-course materials including an Individual Productivity Profile, Learning Descriptions & Objectives and Time & Activities Tracking materials.

Productivity Training - The live training segment is delivered as an interactive inquiry. Participants engage in a series of open-ended conversations and exercises that encourage them to examine their assumptions about how they use their time to produce results in personal life and at work. Participants leave the program in action, implementing the principles and practices of Mission Control. The program is available in a 2-day format or customizable 1 to 1.5 day corporate formats.

Coaching - An effective coaching and follow-up program is the key factor in a highly successful corporate program. With an effective coaching program Mission Control has been documented to produce a work habit adoption rate 82% after 90 days. Traditional training programs typically yield a 10-15% rate of adoption.

Web Based Learning - Mission Control provides a series of web based and CD-Rom learning modules that offer additional integration and support of the Mission Control principles as well as resources in areas such as email management, meeting management and dealing effectively with interruptions.

Technology Integration - Mission Control representatives can work with IT staff and technology training staff prior to training and throughout the entire Mission Control program to integrate the Mission Control principles with existing individual and, group scheduling software and email systems. Mission Control has existing solutions for Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, and Novell GroupWise.

Additional programs - Mission Control also offers a range Workgroup Productivity Programs, Communication Protocol Programs, Organizational Productivity Consulting Services and Train the Trainer Licensing Programs.

"Mission Control gave the leadership of our 700-person team the focus required to complete their responsibilities and avoid spending time on non value-added tasks. Rather than trying to constantly prioritize one thing over the other, they are asking what's going to make the biggest difference to the organization. I am very pleased with the results of the program."
Steve Lyon, Vice-President USTSC, American Express Canada

Mission Control Overview - Mission Control is a training company that designs and delivers innovative productivity programs for the 21 st Century.   Mission Control provides new principles, tools and practices that redefine and dramatically increase personal and organizational productivity. Today, the company offers public programs in 26 markets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, India, Australia, Japan and Europe, along with online courses and in-house corporate workshops.

Over 10,000 people have taken Mission Control's programs and workshops worldwide. Mission Control has conducted corporate programs in dozens of Fortune 500 companies with large workforce programs at Microsoft, Hilton, Boeing, Ford Motor Company, NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Canadian Department of Justice.

Mission Control(TM) and other trademarks and intellectual property are used under license of Mission Control Productivity LLC. Copyright 2006, All Rights Reserved by Mission Control Productivity LLC

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