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Discover whether GTD® (Getting Things Done®) is something that is of interest to you or your organization. Come to the preview session as describer below. Do book your seat (RSVP details below).
More information on GTD: www.gettingthingsdone.com
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Public Course on
“Getting Things Done (GTD®) – Mastering Workflow Series” Level 1: Fundamentals
To register or enquire, please email to: enquiries(AT)rhyminpartners(DOT)com
Choice of 4 Workshop Dates:
| No. | Dates | Days | Duration | Times |
| 01. | 11-12 April 2016 | Monday – Tuesday | 1.5 Days | Day 1: 8:30am – 5:00pm Day 2: 8:30am – 1:00pm |
| 02. | 21-22 April 2016 | Thursday – Friday | 1.5 Days | Day 1: 8:30am – 5:00pm Day 2: 8:00am – 12:00pm |
| 03. | 03-04 May 2016 | Monday – Tuesday | 1.5 Days | Day 1: 8:30am – 5:00pm Day 2: 8:30am – 1:00pm |
| 04. | 23-24 May 2016 | Monday – Tuesday | 1.5 Days | Day 1: 8:30am – 5:00pm Day 2: 8:30am – 1:00pm |
Venue: neOOne Center for Accelerated Learning, 2nd. Floor (above Celcom), 40 Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur
Learning Objectives: What you will learn on Day 1 of the GTD® workshop:
On the Day 2 (half-day), participants will be guided on implementing and installation of a personal GTD system.
Guaranteed Results: In a recent Productivity Scan research study conducted by Life Architect, David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology shows a minimum of 20% improvement in personal productivity and effectiveness.
The GTD Concept: Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. That’s why David Allen created Getting Things Done®. GTD is the work-life management system that has helped countless individuals and organizations bring order to chaos with stress-free productivity.
After decades of in-the-field research and practice of his productivity methods, David wrote the international best-seller Getting Things Done. Published in over 28 languages, TIME magazine heralded it as “the defining self-help business book of its time.” GTD enables greater performance, capacity, and innovation. It alleviates the feeling of overwhelm—instilling focus, clarity, and confidence.
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Trainer: Hasannudin Saidin
Brochure: Click/tap here for the GTD Brochure in PDF format
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I am not one who annually set and declare new year resolutions. Come to think of it, a year ago today I would never have expected to be having this website and blog!
In a short interview by Scientific American a few years back (available as a podcast called "David Allen on Goal Setting" in "GTD Connect" [you need to be a member] at www.gettingthingsdone.com), David Allen gave counter-intuitive views about new year resolutions setting, and asked us to do year-end clean up.
INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:
David Allen: Thinking about goals and the things you want to get out of life is always gonna be better than the essentially 93% negative self-talk most people do: “Wow, life’s hard, I’ll never get there..”
So anything you can do that keeps your mind focused on more positive stuff, those stuff you want to have, is going to be highly useful to you.
Interviewer: So that’s good news, but David Allen also says to watch out for a few things when sitting down when thinking about your goals in the year ahead.
David Allen: People need to get very serious about goal setting and lighten up at times. What people don’t need is to beat themselves up anymore. I think most people usually, in the US anyway, we’re in such an optimistic culture, and in January we are really optimistic.
“I ate too much, I fluffed off last year. I’m really gonna make it different this (new) year.”
I would highly suggest that people be cautious about that.
Interviewer: So what is the best way to set goals?
David Allen: The best way to set goals is to set about 45 and see which 2 still stick around.
Interviewer: 45??? 45 goals of what?
David Allen: Oh, anything. What would you have true by the end of next year?
“What would you like to weigh? How far and fast would you like to run a mile? What would you like to shoot on the golf course? How much money would you like to have in the bank? How would you like to feel in the morning? What would be an ideal Sunday afternoon a year from now be for you?”
I mean just keep going! Just keep on having those wonderful images of what life would be like if it was in some sense enhanced or expanded or better for you, whatever that means to you.
And then just keep on essentially keep focusing on them and re-set. We almost never achieve our goals.
Interviewer: WHAT? Then why bother making them in the first place?
David Allen: Because from where I’m looking right now with the goal I set, by the time I’m halfway through it, I’m already more mature, more experienced to have better data. And so by the time I get halfway through the goal I set, I look down and say, “Oh, wait a minute, that over there is what I REALLY wanted, but I couldn’t see it from back where I started. So I had to pick something and get going.”
You know I learned years ago in martial arts that what you don’t do is to stand still. You’re better off to actually be going in the wrong direction 180 degrees, and course-correct and turn around; it actually take less energy to do that then to get going from a standstill. So most people want to know what to do before they start doing, but frankly, you’re not going to know what to do until you start doing.
Interviewer: And so, what is the one practical thing we can do to keep and meet our goals in (the new year)?
David Allen: I would recommend that before or in the midst of or maybe instead of setting big goals you may crash and burn from, the best thing to do is clean up.
Interviewer: And why is this so helpful?
David Allen: There’s really nothing more frustrating than to add new stuff onto a whole lot of incompletion and old residue sitting in your psyche and in your “house.”
So one of the coolest things to do at year end is exactly to use this as the inspiration, “Hey, you know it’s really time to get our filing system in order.”
It’s really time to walk around, make a “site walk-around” and make a list of all the stuff that we really might or need or want to clean up.
And then also sit down with your or any partners in life and make a list of all the cool things or new things or things you completed in the last 12 months. It’s a very very powerful exercise psychologically to give themselves some acknowledgement.
When you think of where you were a year ago, or even in any kind of a timeline, it really gives you a more grounded view of how cool things could be, and also that you don’t overblow your expectations. ‘Cos if you set something too far, you’ll stretch the rubber band and break it.
You really need to make it what I call “51% believable.” It needs something that, you know, “Yeah, it’s 51% believable!” You need to have stretch goals, they’re fun, and they’re a good thing and healthy for people to stretch and expand, but again you don’t want to stretch it too far.
Interviewer: So here’s to (the new year), and your far-reaching, yet reachable goals.
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“Getting Things Done (GTD®) – Mastering Workflow” Public Courses
To register or enquire, please email to: enquiries(AT)rhyminpartners(DOT)com
Dates:
22 December 2015 (Tuesday), 8:30am – 5:00pm
21 January 2016 (Thursday), 8:30am – 5:00pm
Venue: neOOne Center for Accelerated Learning, 2nd. Floor (above Celcom), 40 Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur
Learning Objectives: What you will learn in the 1-day GTD® workshop
Guaranteed Results: In a recent Productivity Scan research study conducted by Life Architect, David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology shows a minimum of 20% improvement in personal productivity and effectiveness.
The GTD Concept: Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. That’s why David Allen created Getting Things Done®. GTD is the work-life management system that has helped countless individuals and organizations bring order to chaos with stress-free productivity.
After decades of in-the-field research and practice of his productivity methods, David wrote the international best-seller Getting Things Done. Published in over 28 languages, TIME magazine heralded it as “the defining self-help business book of its time.” GTD enables greater performance, capacity, and innovation. It alleviates the feeling of overwhelm—instilling focus, clarity, and confidence.
Popular GTD Endorsements:
To register or enquire, please email to: enquiries(AT)rhyminpartners(DOT)com
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“Getting Things Done (GTD®)” Presentation at UPM GREAT Seminar
This is a closed event.
Date: 22 November 2015 (Sunday), 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Event: “The Graduate Employability And Transformation Seminar” (THE GREAT SEMINAR)
Venue: UPM (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Serdang
“Getting Things Done (GTD®) – Mastering Workflow” Public Courses
To register or enquire, please email to: enquiries(AT)rhyminpartners(DOT)com
Dates:
22 December 2015 (Tuesday), 8:30am – 5:00pm
21 January 2016 (Thursday), 8:30am – 5:00pm
Venue: neOOne Center for Accelerated Learning, 2nd. Floor (above Celcom), 40 Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur
Learning Objectives: What you will learn in the 1-day GTD® workshop
Guaranteed Results: In a recent Productivity Scan research study conducted by Life Architect, David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology shows a minimum of 20% improvement in personal productivity and effectiveness.
The GTD Concept: Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. That’s why David Allen created Getting Things Done®. GTD is the work-life management system that has helped countless individuals and organizations bring order to chaos with stress-free productivity.
After decades of in-the-field research and practice of his productivity methods, David wrote the international best-seller Getting Things Done. Published in over 28 languages, TIME magazine heralded it as “the defining self-help business book of its time.” GTD enables greater performance, capacity, and innovation. It alleviates the feeling of overwhelm—instilling focus, clarity, and confidence.
Popular GTD Endorsements:
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Miss Norjan was my form teacher in Form 1. She continued teaching us in Form 2 and Form 3.
An honour it was for me today to give a speech in appreciation of Miss Norjan, at the MEXSA (Methodist [Parit Buntar] Ex-Students Association) high tea with Miss Norjan and Deepavali celebrations.
I opened my speech by saying that unlike last time when I gave a speech in honour of Principals Mr. Subramaniam and Mr. Ling, this time I do not need to read from a script, because it is easy to speak from my heart… because, “Miss Norjan, I feel close to you.”
I reminisced the fond memories that my classmates and I had with her.
Azizah Mahmud who came all the way from Parit Buntar today, remembers Miss Norjan teaching Home Science, and Azizah learned how to make kuih sagu dalam bungkus daun pisang.
Teoh Kheng Huat remembers that after our Industrial Arts class, we boys got invited by Miss Norjan to the Home Science class to eat the beehun goreng the girls cooked.
Katie remembers Miss Norjan down on the field, during sports day, Katie doing folk dancing under Miss Norjan’s teaching.
I remember Miss Norjan’s pronunciation and diction in English.
She was indeed a versatile teacher.
Read More “The Teacher and Her Student, 45 Years On”
“Getting Things Done (GTD®) – Mastering Workflow” workshops
To register or enquire, please email to:
enquiries(AT)rhyminpartners(DOT)com
Dates:
12 November 2015 (Thursday), 8:30am – 5:00pm
22 December 2015 (Tuesday), 8:30am – 5:00pm
21 January 2016 (Thursday), 8:30am – 5:00pm
Venue: neOOne Center for Accelerated Learning, 2nd. Floor (above Celcom), 40 Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, 60000 Kuala Lumpur
Learning Objectives: What you will learn in the 1-day GTD® workshop
Guaranteed Results: In a recent Productivity Scan research study conducted by Life Architect, David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology shows a minimum of 20% improvement in personal productivity and effectiveness.
The GTD Concept: Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. That’s why David Allen created Getting Things Done®. GTD is the work-life management system that has helped countless individuals and organizations bring order to chaos with stress-free productivity.
After decades of in-the-field research and practice of his productivity methods, David wrote the international best-seller Getting Things Done. Published in over 28 languages, TIME magazine heralded it as “the defining self-help business book of its time.” GTD enables greater performance, capacity, and innovation. It alleviates the feeling of overwhelm—instilling focus, clarity, and confidence.
Popular GTD Endorsements:
To register or enquire, please email to: enquiries(AT)ryminpartners(DOT)com
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Photo: GTD workshop on 15 October 2015
An a-ha moment for one participant at a recent GTD (Getting Things Done) workshop was when she realized, "Use your inventory to negotiate, when your boss gives you another project/task. Ask your boss which project/task he/she wants you to postpone or drop."
Another participant responded that we are expected to keep taking more work, anyway! (That "…additional duties as assigned" clause in job descriptions.)
So that we do not become a refuser of additional assignments, my response went something like the following. "I am committed to my work and all the current tasks and assignments on my 'plate.' I am rigorous with these exhaustive (GTD) lists of the things I am focusing on. This approach has helped me become productive and committed. I know that this additional assignment will affect some thing(s) on my plate. So I'd like to discuss what current tasks and projects we can agree on to have reduced focus…"
Well, I didn't exactly say those words in the workshop, but that's the message I wanted to give!
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Okay, so I quoted Carol Dweck, David Allen and Chalmers Brothers at last week's event, plus I played the YouTube video of A Tale of Two Frogs. However, there was an original piece of work that I brought into the presentation: I had put together a "word-cloud" of all words I could think of related to "Mindset." Not that I explained why I chose ALL the words when I presented; I will explain them in a future post. In the meantime in this post, let me summarize my presentation.
Early in the presentation, I asked the audience for words related to mindset. Two of the words they said out loud were viewpoint and paradigm. Then I revealed my word-cloud:
Read More “A Tale of Two Frogs, Part 2”
