32 ~ Wednesday, November. 4; 1987' -. North Shore News

NEWS photo Neil Lucente

DALE CARTER, district manager of the Federal Business Development Bank, left, presents Jeff Berryman
of Jason Sound Industries.Ltd. with a CASE exemplary small business award.

Managing priorities may
help to improve business

IF YOU never get beyond the clutter on your desk in a
work day, you’re not alone. ;

According to a recent study, the average business
person has approximately 36 hours of work on their
desk at any given time. :

And they spend an average of three hours a week
just trying to find things on that desk.

“Managing your priorities may help rid your desk
of clutter, improve your business, and give you more
time for your family,"’ said Daniel Stamp, founder of.
Priority Management Systems Inc.

One of the most successful personal management
programs to ever come-out of Canada, Priority
Management has become a way of life with over
80,000 business people.

‘With the pressure and stress in the business world,
it is impossible to get everything done. There isn’t
envugh time in the day,’’ said Stamp.

ESTABLISH PRIORITIES

“It’s necessary to decide what’s important, and to
get those things done first.’

With headquarters in Vancouver, this international
training company has a network of offices across
Canada and has entered the U.S. market selling fran-
chises. .

In its January, 1987 issue, Entrepreneur Magazine
named Priority Management the number-one
management training franchise organization in North
America.

Stamp’s idea is deceptively simple — a fruitful
business and personal life depends on how well you
recognize which pressures in your life are important
and which are not.

The Priority Management system is applied through
the Time-Test Organizer, a portable binder that con-
solidates the system, including planning sheets, com-
munications planners, diaries, and reference
materials.

“It’s really a paper computer,’’ said Stamp. ‘‘But
the key to our success is in the training, an intensive
half-day workshop and follow-up consultations that
ensures new clients understand how to focus on
priorities and use the system.””

Priority Management is the third generation of per-
sonal productivity techniques.

TIME MANAGEMENT

In the 1960s, time management was. an activity
driven, get-the-job-done approach that didn’t take in-
to account the effects it had on people, such as
burn-out.

The 1970s produced stress management to relieve
day-to-day pressures.

Priority Management, says Stamp, is a “sort of
marriage between the two.’ The difference, he says, is
that his system teaches how to do the right thing,
tather than doing things the right way. It’s more in
keeping with today’s information revolution.

97,000 CANADIANS INFECTED
seminars target
AIDS at work

AIDS IN the workplace will be the topic Nov. 13 in the
Regency Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

An estimated 97,000 Canadians
between age 20 to 59 are currently
infected with the AIDS virus and
are probably in the work force.

Vancouver Community College
Continuing Education has lined up
a slate of speakers including Rick
Mathias, assistant professor of
health care and epidemiology at
UBC and a member of the Na-
tional Advisory Committee on
AIDS; Karen Kruse, who has
developed a province-wide AIDS
education program for employees
at B.C. Tel; Ted McLean, com-
municable disease consultant for
the Vancouver Health Department.

Seminars will address issues in-
cluding such topics as Should Your
Company Have A Policy For
AIDS?, AIDS Education for
Employees, Risk of AIDS on the
Workplace.

The seminars, geared for man-
agers, supervisors and training
staff, run 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. To reg-
ister or for more information call
687-1757.

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WEST VANCOUVER antique
dealer The Collector's Shop will be
participating Nov. 6 to Nov. 8 in
the 3rd Annual Antique and Fine
Arts Fair of The Greater Van-

TELEPHONE ANSWE

couver Antique Dealers’ Associa-

business
briefcase

by Michael
Becker

The fair will take place at
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St. in
Vancouver, and will be open to the
public 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday
and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday.

Sixteen Western Canadian anti-
que dealers will be on hand to

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