Get Organized!: Illinois Principals Association Online Academy

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Illinois Principals Association Online Academy

I had a great time Thursday presenting a webinar for the Illinois Principals Association Online Academy. Entitled Time Management: The 5 Keys to Total Control and Peace of Mind, the 3-hour interactive webinar was designed to give practicing administrators practical tools to help them accomplish more, stay on top of their workdays, and experience less stress.

Here are the comments from the participants:

I would enjoy more presentations by Frank, especially with regards to free tech tools and being an efficient digital administrator.
Great presentation!
The workshop was great!
This was an exceptionally helpful presentation. Organization is essential.
Great Job! I appreciate you responding to all the questions.
Great presentation!
Thought it was great!
Great interactive presentation. Thank you for all the great ideas!
Great information and presenter.
The Online Academy Time Management was presented well and the information presented is USEFUL information. Well done!
There was a lot of useful information presented to us today. A great amount of time would be saved by just using 1 or 2 of the ideas shared.
I actually do some of the organizational tasks that Dr. Buck mentioned. For example, the journal. I really enjoyed the detailed information and I will be using it.
This was an excellent presentation. I will actually start using some of the items today and can improve on others such as Outlook with the “Drag and Drop.”
I have over 1,000 emails and thanks to Dr. Buck I plan to have none by Monday.
Thank you for providing organization ideas that are helpful in managing the flood of information.
This was a well-organized and practical seminar.
The Online Academy was great! This is my 2nd and I love them!
This was so practical and oftentimes the practical gets lost to the theoretical.
I feel that this has been the most informative academy that I have attended. I plan to put the information I learned today in place as soon as I sign out of the academy,
Extremely practical and helpful!
I gained many useful tools to help me get, and stay, organized in this profession. Thank you!
I am literally taking this home to share with my wife so we can get organized at home also, given some of the business ideas we are working on for our companies!
If you need time, make time for this!
This information was very helpful.
This was a great use of my time! I got some great ideas and will incorporate them immediately.
Great ideas that were very practical and some I accomplished immediately.
This workshop will make me a more efficient administrator.
This AA offered very practical suggestions. I am eager to implement them!

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Comments from Workshops

This morning when I returned to the office I did my first ever drag and drop to my calendar on Outlook - wahoo! The tickler file will come next week!

One of the most informative sessions I have been to in 5 years.

I saw your presentation at the ASCD conference in New Orleans and was blown away. Please send me your monthly email essays

Practical down to earth user-friendly content. Excellent!

One of my professional goals is to be more organized and to manage time more effectively. This hit the target.

Thank you. These are tools I can and will use! WHEW!

Practical, down-to-earth user-friendly content. Excellent!

Dr. Buck did a great job. I learned LOTS of things about Outlook that I did not know.

Where have you been all my life? This is a great idea! Thank you so very much.

FANTASTIC! One of the best I’ve been to! I could have stayed longer.

I was in your organization session yesterday. It was excellent. Came back to work today and set up my tickler file! I also moved all my messy (and vague) to-do lists into my iCal program and synced it to my Blackberry. Progress!!! Thanks for a very clear and applicable session. I'm excited to keep making the ideas come to life for me!!

Awesome ideas to get my life on track. Thank you so much!

You changed my life!

Great workshop. Fabulously well informed and entertaining presenter who shared his knowledge in a readily understandable format. Helpful handout. Thank you – well worth the trip from Ottawa.

I really loved the presentation!! Dr. Buck very thorough and entertaining. Great, practical ideas and the Faculty Club was a great setting! Well done!!

Great presenter. Was very informative, practical info to apply right away.

I loved this seminar!! Very, very well presented. Clear, logical, Dr. Buck was enthusiastic and witty. Very practical information that I will put to use immediately.

As a new administrator, I found this workshop to be extremely helpful. I got affirmation on some of the things I was already doing and many great new ideas! Thank you. Would definitely recommend to others. Frank Buck provided many ideas that will make my job as an administrator 10 times easier.

This might very well be some of the most useful, timely and necessary professional learning I've done in years. Thank you!

Excellent presentation.
Dr. Frank Buck is friendly, interesting, and knowledgeable. Well done! This seminar was amazing.

I will put it unequivocally: yours is the first workshop for professional development I have been to that has had a daily effect on lowering my stress levels and being more aware of the things I need to do on a daily basis. I cannot thank you enough. Everyday is now easier knowing I know where my day is going and not worrying over where everything is. The simplicity is almost embarrassing – how come I never thought to do this 10 years ago? My answer to that is that we sometimes don’t realize that a slightly more open mind can reap benefits we didn’t imagine possible. Thank you again. I waited about 6 months to let you know, but this only proves that I’m walking proof your techniques work long term.