Time Management and Team Productivity;
Career and life Planning

• Time Management & Team Productivity
  
• Hands-on Workshop: Administrative Assistants & Executive Secretaries
  
• Advanced Seminar for Alumni of Admin. Assistants & Exec. Secretaries

• Herbert A. Shepard: Essence of a Proactive Life
• Herbert A. Shepard's Publications and Citations on Personal and Organizational Development
  

TIME MANAGEMENT WEBSITES

Seminal Work

• Time Management and Polychronicity:
  Comparisons, Contrasts, and Insights for the Workplace

• The Leader Within You
  
• Sharing a World-wide Perspective on Leadership
  
• Exploring the Artistry and Absurdity of Leadership
  

• Concerning Interruptions, Stephen B. Jenkins, NRC Canada, IEEE 2006
  
• Managing Interruptions and Distractions
  
• Distractions Affect All of Us, Dan Nielsen, COPA, Feb. 2009
  
• Effects of Realistic Distractions and Interruptions on Simulated Surgical Task Performance, Robin L. Feuerbacher, Oregon State U., June 2010
  
• Work Interruptions and Medication Errors, OU College of Nursing – Career Mobility, 2010
  
• The Effects of Interruptions on Task Performance, Annoyance, and Anxiety in the User Interface Brian P. Bailey, Joseph A. Konstan, and John V. Carlis University of Minnesota
  

• Prerequisites for Shorter and More Productive meetings
• How to Schedule Group or Team Events Online with Doodle.com: Used for Board and Staff Meetings, Project Teamwork, Business Lunches, Conference Calls, Family and Class Reunions or Other Group Events.
• Effective Meetings Handbook by Yale University's School of Management
• Fundamentals of Effective Meetings: Basic Principles and Protocol
• The ABC's of Effective Meetings by University of Wyoming
• Effective Safety Meetings
• Tips for Leading Effective Team Meetings by University of Vermont
• Holding Effective Meetings
• Effective Meetings by David L. Sturges
• Running Effective Meetings
• Meetings of Success
• Running Effective Meetings
• Six Tips for More Effective Meetings
• Audioconferencing: Quick Reference Guide
• Tips for videoconference meetings
• Tips for Videoconferences
• Electronic Meetings - google References
• Robert's Rules of Order
  
  • How to Run an Effective Meeting Using Robert’s Rules
  • Why the Quaker-based Consensus is Better than Robert's Rules of Order
  • Outline of Robert's Rules of Order for the Senate of North-Dakota State University
  • Robert’s Rules of Order Made Simple Sonoma State University Academic Senate
  • Robert's Rules of Order by Princeton Model Congress (Oldest Model Congress in America)
  • How Business Is Conducted in Deliberative Assemblies
  • Making Meetings Work: Rules Governing Debate, Parliamentary Procedure by John A. Cagle
  • An Explanatory Guide to Robert's Rules of Order
  • Robert's Rules of Order Made Easy
  • Robert's Rules of Order Workshop Handout
  • Motion of the Day

• Conny, Beth Mende: The Pros and Cons of Setting Personal Deadlines
• Cartwright, Steve: What is New in Microsoft Project 2000. New Scheduling Features.
  

• How to Say NO and Mean It; Stanford University
• How To Say Yes--How To Say No; University of Nebraska
• Saying "No" to Unfair Requests and Demands; Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden Sydney, VA
• Do's and Don'ts; School of Health Sciences, Clayton State University, Atlanta

• Setting Up Your Workspace
• Ergonomic Tips: Preventing Mouse Related Injury
• Iowa State U.: Sitting Down on the Job: Ergonomic Tips
• Cornell University: Ergonomic Guidelines for Workstations + Free Downloads
• Columbia University: How to Prevent Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Organizing Your Workspace
• Creating an Effective Work Space Case Study

• Travel Warnings: US Secretary of State - Office of Risk Management
• Health Advisory: University of Chicago
• Travel Tips: The Citadel Military College
• Travel Tips: OSU Department of Public Safety

Stress

TIME MANAGEMENT BOOKS

• Martin, Alain Paul. Bringing Time to Life. Executive.Org.
• Martin, Alain Paul. Flawless Time Management Executive.Org, 2001.
• Shepard, Herb. Essence of a Proactive Life Executive.Org.
• Thorbjoern Mann: Time Management for Architects and Designers, W. W. Norton & Company, 2003, ISBN: 0393731332.

• Marion E. Haynes : Effective Meeting Skills, Crisp Learning; 1997, ISBN: 1560523859
• Joanna Gutmann : Taking Minutes of Meetings, Kogan Page, 2001, ISBN: 074943564X
• Brenda Miller Power: Taking Note: Improving Your Observational Notetaking, Stenhouse, 1996, ISBN: 1571100350
• Eli Mina: Mina’s Guide to Minute Taking Principles, Standards & Practical Tools, Eli Mina Consulting, 2004, ISBN: 0973442808
• Joe Pullis : Speedwriting for Notetaking and Study Skills, McGraw-Hill, 1990, ISBN: 0026851555

• Martin, Alain Paul. Conjuguer le temps et la vie. Executive.Org.
  
• Martin, Alain Paul. La gestion du temps Executive.Org, 2001.
  
• Shepard, Herbert A. L'Essence d'une vie proactive, Executive.Org.

• Seminars
• Books
• Websites

TEAM BUILDING

Seminars
• New Manager & Team Leader Workshop
• Practical Leadership & Management Skills for Women

BOOKS

• Beckhard, Richard. Changing The Essence: The Art of Creating and Leading Fundamental Change. Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1992.
  
• Belasco, James A. and C. Ralph. Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead. Warner Books, Inc., New York, 1993.
  
• Dyer, William G. Team Building: Issues and Alternatives. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Massachusetts, 1977.
  
• Katzenbach, Jon R. and Douglas K. Smith. The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1993.
  
• Laiken, Marilyn. The Anatony of High Performing Teams: A Leader's Handbook Guidance. Series 6, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, OISE Press, Toronto, 1994.
  
• Luft, Joseph. Group Processes: An Introduction to Group Dynamics. Mayfield Company, Palo Alto, California, 1963.
  
• Quick, Thomas L. Successful Team Building. Amacom, American Management Association, New York , 1992.
  
• Schein, Edgar H. Process Consultation: Its Role in Organization Development. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Massachusetts, 1969.