Jones Loflin

Are You As Focused As A Bee? is an enlightening look at how to improve your focus by learning from the incredible lives of honeybees. It offers a radical approach to give you the clarity, confidence, and control you crave to accomplish what is most important to you.

What could you accomplish if you improved your ability to focus?

Are you tired of fighting the countless distractions coming at you every day?

How would your life change if you approached each day with purpose and made steady progress toward your goals?

Key Objectives:

• Boost your productivity with a proven system for completing high impact tasks that align with your goals.
• Reduce distractions and lower the pull towards low-priority activities, creating space for what truly matters.
• Simplify big projects with an effective system to break them into achievable steps that lead to consistent success.
• Strengthen your ability to recognize when you are overwhelmed and how to quickly reset to stay present and productive.

Does this sound familiar?  You have too much to do, too many priorities, too much stress and too little time.  If this sounds like you, you may want to run away and join the circus!  And you should! Well, mentally, that is.

Using the engaging metaphor of a circus ringmaster (you) balancing the rings of Work, Relationships and Self, Jones equips participants to win against the struggle of competing priorities, take greater control of their time and energy, and accomplish what is most important to them and their organization.

Based off of his award winning book, Juggling Elephants, participants will learn new ways to work with the performers in their circus and understand why they need to take an intermission.  Most importantly, they will leave with the ability to make sure that what they say is important actually gets done!

Key Objectives

• Recognize the fallacy of trying to “get it all done”
• Identify the sources of professional and/or personal overload that are most limiting your ability to thrive
• Create a consistent daily and weekly time management plan that addresses your highest priorities
• Work with others more effectively so EVERYONE is getting the right work done
• Identify and better manage the tsunami of interruptions and distractions coming at you every day

You’re ready to take your leadership to the next level. The question is, “How?”

Based on his book, Always Growing, Jones uses the simple analogy of a gardener to give a fresh perspective on how you can motivate, empower, and develop any team using four simple words: Grow, Cultivate, Prune, and Harvest. Organizations including Volvo and Choice Hotels have chosen this program for the way the model integrates with their specific needs and perspectives for their leadership training.

The audience will leave with the ability to:

• Create an environment for ideal growth and understand why leaving some things “unpruned” seldom brings optimal results
• Identify potential changes that can increase time spent on highest priorities
• Improve communication practices with team members to strengthen clarity about expectations and priorities
• Modify individual work routines that are limiting their ability to lead successfully
• ?Identify three specific areas they need to address daily as a leader or manager
• Discover what is limiting their success as a leader and what's holding their team members back
• Appreciate the value of celebrating more small wins with their team members

The past two years have created within many individuals and organizations a “wait and see” mindset. And while hope is a positive attribute, it’s not a means by which to secure better results for the future. The bigger question that needs to be asked is, “How can we move forward now?" This timely program is designed to equip participants with a mindset and practical tools to focus on professional and personal improvement when the path ahead is uncertain.

Key Audience Takeaways

• Understand how a “fixing problems” mindset isn’t the best approach to moving forward in times of change
• Create an environment where you and others are best equipped to move forward
• Develop daily activities and routines that keep change moving forward
• Determining what’s NOT important right now so you can free up resources to more fully address your goals with a change
• How to sustain forward movement in times of change even when it's uncomfortable