Mastering Interruptions: How to Stay Productive and Focused at Work

Rhonda Scharf

Date:
March 5, 2025
Duration:
60 Minutes
Time:
12 PM PST | 9 AM PST | Wednesday
Speaker:
Rhonda Scharf

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Overview:

Have you ever had one of those chaotic days where you raced from one task to the next, skipped lunch, and didn’t cross a single thing off your to-do list? You were busy all day but somehow accomplished nothing. Interruptions are often the culprit. Whether they come from colleagues, emails, or self-distractions, interruptions derail our focus and prevent us from making meaningful progress. Shockingly, interruptions cost the U.S. economy nearly $1 trillion annually and consume 28 billion hours each year, according to Jonathan Spira.

While we can’t avoid interruptions entirely, learning how to manage them is critical to boosting productivity, staying focused, and reducing stress. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies to take back control of your day and finally get your work done.

Join this webinar and discover how to regain control of your time, improve productivity, and reduce the chaos of interruptions in your workday!


Why you should Attend:

Create actionable strategies to take back control of your day and finally get your work done.

While we can’t avoid interruptions entirely, learning how to manage them is critical to boosting productivity, staying focused, and reducing stress.

Join this webinar and discover how to regain control of your time, improve productivity, and reduce the chaos of interruptions in your workday!


Agenda:

- The Three-Step Process to Managing Interruptions: A simple framework to minimize disruptions and maintain focus.
- Eliminate Self-Distractions: Strategies to identify and curb habits that pull you off track.
- Urgent vs. Important: How to prioritize effectively and stay focused on what matters most. - Identifying Danger Zones: Do you know what distracts you? Discover why you are the guilty party for almost half of your interruptions!
- Learning to be effective rather than simply efficient (and why you want to be effective rather than efficient!)
- Managing Conversational Interruptions: Tactful ways to handle interruptions from colleagues or clients.

Who Will Benefit:

All office professionals – Managers, Supervisors, etc

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Instructor:

Rhonda Scharf

Certified Speaking Professional, Hall of Fame, Global Speaking Fellow

Insightful, humorous, entertaining, even contagious; words that are often used to describe Rhonda Scharf. A speaker with the uncanny ability to look at the normal and see something quite different. Rhonda will share some things she has learned to help you thrive in your work environment, emerging at the end of the day with a smile and a sense of accomplishment. Audiences far and wide sing her praises for her relevant and useful tips on administration, communication and workplace effectiveness! Rhonda is an author, speaker, trainer, and grandmother. She has earned her Certified Speaking Professional, is a member of the Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame, and is one of only 35 speakers worldwide who have earned their Global Speaking Fellow (meaning she truly has an international business), and been awarded the Spirit of CAPS award. She was the first speaker in the entire world to earn all four awards. Her peers consider Rhonda a leader in the speaking industry! Her natural warmth and sincerity are balanced by a healthy sense of the absurd, a combination that is useful in any situation. Rhonda’s professional speaking career began at age two… when her mother would offer her 25 cents to be quiet for five minutes!