How are the Productivity Tools Different?

The tools are a comprehensive set of guidebooks aimed at increasing productivity. They do so by developing people, building teams and engaging everyone in shaping a productive culture.

They represent a major shift in thinking-from training to learning:

• They do not replace or rule out the need for certain types of training; they support and increase the effectiveness of all training and learning.
• They do not constitute another "program." They provide a comprehensive system for individual, team, and organization development incorporated at your pace.

• They can be used by individuals in self-paced study or by groups in workshop settings.
• Their modular construction makes it easy to use selected pages as needed.
• They work well in print and can be easily transported and adapted electronically.
• They build ownership by respecting the uniqueness of users and inviting user adaptation.

• They are open-ended by design so that they can grow and change with the users.
• They build shared awareness of crucial processes at work and stimulate thinking and dialogue aimed at improving results.
• They can be used by an entire organization to develop a collective way of learning and continuously adding to the organizational knowledge base.

• They dramatically increase the effective use of one's biological computer, just as a good software program enables you to make effective use of your desktop computer.
• Collectively, they create an organizational operating system for processing and communicating vital information, just as the operating system on your computer provides a way to connect the various components of your desktop system and move information efficiently from one to the other.