Meeting Description:
Numerous studies show that multitasking has a negative effect on productivity and execution effectiveness.  Yet, most organizations continue to create environments that perpetuate the need for team members to juggle multiple tasks.  Many organizations, pursuing a strategic competitive edge, are discovering methods to unleash process efficiency, speed, quality, and hidden capacity by reducing multitasking and helping their teams to FOCUS.  Doing so allows them to have dramatic improvements on team morale, retention, productivity, and the bottom-line.

This presentation will demonstrate the significant improvements that can be uncovered by reducing multitasking and working in a focused way.  These improvements can deliver value in all work environments and also in our personal lives.  This session will help attendees to capitalize on methods to become less stressed, more productive, and to deliver greater value to their organizations, customers, and key stakeholders.

Biography:
Joe Cooper is a project, program, and portfolio management consultant at Allegient, LLC in Indianapolis, IN USA.  His passion is helping organizations to optimize the speed and reliability of their project delivery and turning this improvement into a strategic competitive advantage.
 
Joe speaks internationally on project management topics at events such as, PMI Global Congress, PMI Japan Forum, PMI Indonesia Symposium, TOCICO International Conference, and other local, regional, and global conferences.
 
Joe earned his PMP in 2003 and is also certified by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO) in critical chain project management.
 
Joe attended graduate school at Oklahoma State University studying Laser Physics and conducting experimental research in medical applications of lasers (tissue coagulation).  Joe earned BS degrees in Physics, Mathematics, and Professional Pilot Technology at Indiana State University.