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Key2Success Training Program
Are you ready to get the most out of digital planning? Take action with the Key2Success Digital Planning System’s training modules. Learn how to develop goals, set vision, and get organized. K2S offers training programs are free and here to help you harness the power of digital planning.
There are two modules available, depending on what your planning goals are. The two training modules are available for those who want to get intentional with their planning or build the framework for long-term achievements. These two modules are available for those who want to achieve productivity in their week or those who need guidance for long-term intentional plans.
Series 1: Productivity and Intentional Focus
If you are someone seeking to gain more focus in your planning, this is the module for you. If you’re trying to find a method to organize your day-to-day and beyond, it can be hard to know where to start. In this training video, we teach you the tricks and tips to get started. Through structured productivity, you’ll gain the opportunity to review your goals and implement an action plan into your weekly planning.
Series 2: Building Framework
If you want to use your digital planner beyond just a day-to-day organizer, this module is for you. We guide you in determining long-term opportunities to help you achieve your goals. Learn how to segment your goals and divide them into achievable benchmarks.
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SERIES 1: Productivity & Intentional Focus
How to Increase Productivity and Focus with Digital Planning – Video One
If you are someone seeking to gain more focus in your planning, this is the module for you. If you’re trying to find a method to organize your day-to-day and beyond, it can be hard to know where to start. In this training series, we teach you the tricks and tips to get started. Through structured productivity, you’ll gain the opportunity to review your goals and implement an action plan into your weekly planning.
It can be nerve-wracking to know where to start and this series helps you understand the system and how to make it work for your needs. Along with this free training, Key2Success offers personalized one-on-one coaching if you are interested.
How to Weekly Plan with a Digital Planner – Video Two
Weekly planning is one of the cornerstones to the Key2Success digital planning system. Branden spends about 15-20 minutes each week on this page. Start by identifying your accomplishments and unfinished business. Never plan for more than what you can accomplish in a week. In other words, set realistic attainable goals.
Next, determine what might be distracting you or pulling you away from your ability to achieve. Re-assess your priorities and identify opportunities. Making a written note is a manifestation of you making a commitment. Utilize the planning board to move the mind clutter to the page to better organize and identify patterns.
Finally, set intentions and tasks. After completing this part of the planner, you should have a sense of calm and purpose as you start your week.
How to Maximize Your Day with Daily Planning – Video Three
Use side-by-side annotation to migrate calendar items into your planner. (Learn the difference between Primary and Secondary calendars here.) Identify your Key 3 – the things that will make the biggest impact on your day. Use your weekly planning to help dictate your daily plan. Create a framework that helps you maximize your time and objectives.
At the end of the day, take one last look at your day view and move whatever is needed into the next day. By combining your weekly and daily planning, reduce your anxiety and create a system that helps you live the life you want.
Setting Focus and Priorities through Monthly Planning – Video Four
Attain overall traction in your month by harnessing the power of weekly and daily planning into monthly planning. Learn how to use the digital planner to recognize your focus and understand opportunities. Identify your key role (communication, innovation, etc) and use this to develop accountability. Create a timeline for projects and goals that helps you facilitate routine and habits.
Use the Ideal Week section to create routines and find gaps and opportunities for your monthly framework. There is a seasonality to life and it can be easy to lose stride with the season changes. Use monthly digital planning to prevent yourself from losing momentum. Help balance your personal, self, career, and relationship goals.
Establishing Your Vision through Digital Planning Video Five
This is where the Key2Success Planner becomes more than just another digital planner! By implementing daily, weekly, and monthly planning, you have now created space and opportunity to be more productive.
What could life look like? The Vision Board is a place to start your brainstorming. We don’t want to live in a wheel – we want to live a life that fulfils us. Set a vision for your life and use the tools to break down your goals into action steps.
Setting Goals and Action Steps with Digital Planner – Video Six
The Key2Success Planning System helps cultivate goals in four main areas: self, community, relationships, and career. Oftentimes, these four areas are intertwined.
Build healthy goals by first brainstorming and setting goals. These are Big Picture things. Determine what excites you about each area. Then, outline and blueprint your goals. Recommit to your motivation. Brainstorm what you’ll need to accomplish to move towards your goals. Do you need to take a course? Read? Learn something? Set an outline and make action steps.
SERIES 2: Building Framework
How Key2Success Was Created and How it Impacted My Thinking
Whether you are new to the planning system or have been a customer over the last few years, you might be curious how we got started and how you can use the planner to set framework and achieve your goals. Though Key2Success, we’ve built the ability for you to have focus and productivity in your week by organizing your life on a monthly and quarterly basis, but also beyond that. That’s where this second series comes into play. Building Framework is a means that helps you look at your vision and your long-term goals and build out a system for success for yourself. As we kick off this training series, I want to take a moment to share a little bit about my story with you.
Creating a Business Plan with the Professional Builder – Video Two
In 2004, I was 20 years-old and I wanted to start my own business – so I did. After six months of running my own business, my partner and I had achieved over $84,000 in gross sales and it was time for us to look at expanding. There was an opportunity in front of us to grow our business by buying out one of our competitors. Looking back, it was freaky as heck – but at the time, it was exciting. Being 20 years-old and being naive to many aspects of business, everything like that felt like a step I wanted to take.
I wanted to take that step, but it was a leap of faith. I didn’t have the financial capability of undertaking this endeavor by myself, so I approached one of the local banks in town that was an SBA lender and I sat down with that individual that had the power to basically grant my dreams if he gave me the funds that we needed for this investment.
How To Break Down Boulders – Video Three
Let’s talk about facing challenges. These challenges are really going to be about creating change in our organization and identifying the things that are impacting our abilities to grow.
First up, the Boulder Breakdown. As we indicated in the professional builder, you have Boulders (challenges) that you are facing. This page is going to further expand on those boulders to help you develop a plan so you can move forward.
Start by identifying the Boulder and how it is impacting results. Include previous attempts made to break down that Boulder and what the long-term risk is if you do not address the Boulder. One of the biggest things I want you to take away from the Boulder Breakdown is: The power of motivation to achieve something can directly be tied to your risk of not achieving it.
Implement Action For Success – Video Four
Learn your strengths and how you can utilize those resources to further your growth, reach your Vision, and overcome Boulders. The Strength Maximizer is a page that expands off of the Professional Builder and is designed to help you attain confidence and assurance.
First, identify different talents in your organization, then analyze how you can utilize those strengths to create accountability and implement action. What resources do you have that align with those different action steps? How do these strengths contribute to the big picture?
The Strength Maximizer goes beyond the Self and determines what tools you can access to build upon your own strengths. As you goal plan and fill out your vision board, it’s important to utilize strengths and indicate action plans in a broader framework. What is it about the organization that you have around you that’s going to help you improve? This could be friends, family, an employer, or other networks.
Each person has different talents and strengths. By identifying the talents and strengths of those around you, you can better determine how they can help you generate success – and vice versa.
Next, it’s important to evaluate how growth might impact these strengths and staffing needs. As a business grows, staff are impacted in different ways. Their roles may change or their workload shift. By identifying these components early on, you can develop a plan to handle changes and Boulders that might arise.
Each person will have action steps and a role in any change that happens. Having a plan is key to managing success.
Organization Change that Leads to Success – Video Five
Not only do I want you to have success today, I want you to have continued success throughout all experiences. Use the Adaptation Process to manage expectations and adapt so that your success doesn’t plateau.
The Adaptation Process involves identifying the things that are impacting your business. Next, we determine whom it concerns and use the Planning Board to expand upon this. The planning board is a space where you can start to identify necessary process changes and ideas for improvement. Highlight shifts in the organization that you might undertake to effectively overcome the impact of what your organization is facing. Outline the steps you have to take and adaptations that you’ll need to make.
Through the adaptation process, you’ll indicate what adaptations to make as you start to see the success from your goals. Determine in advance what would trigger you to make these adaptations. You’ll identify your role in this adaptation – are you managing it, are you part of it, are you someone that’s going to help contribute to it?
What you’ll find from using this adaptation process is that it’s a great coaching tool. When I’m working with different organizations, there are different people at the front of the plan that have involvement with trying to grow the results of the organization. People that are affected by those results need to understand how the adaptations and changes to the processes are ultimately going to positively affect the organization’s ability to continue to grow.
By communicating the vision from day one, by explaining how you’re going to achieve these goals and how those goals might lead to adaptations – the people that are experiencing that change are more willing to participate because ultimately they know that change is part of the success plan.
If you are looking for a digital planner for professionals, this is the planner for you. The Key2Success Digital Planner Professional Builder section provides the staple for you as a professional to set goals and create a plan to achieve them. Whether you want to help grow your career or expand your organization, this is the tool that we wanted to roll out to the community to help set priorities and absolute goals.
Device & Application Training
OneNote
Learn how to use OneNote on the iPad in just a few minutes with this helpful video. Maximize your digital planning, note-taking, and journaling experience on the iPad using OneNote.
OneNote is a free app. It works across Apple devices and Windows devices, allowing you to easily sync across devices. Designed like a binder, OneNote has sections, tabs, and pages.
Branden explains how he sets up his OneNote Digital Planner, the Key2Success Planning System.
I recently have seen a high number of requests from OneNote users, asking how I set up my weekly planning.
Here is a quick video how I structure my weekly planning. Many professionals tell me that this style helps them achieve success through building daily structure in their digital planning model.
GoodNotes
Many of us are exploring digital note-taking and planning. Learn how to use GoodNotes on the iPad in just a few minutes with this helpful video. Walk through some of the basic tips to get you started with using GoodNotes 5 for digital note-taking. These basic tips on how to use your iPad as a digital planner and note-taking device can help you get started.
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Individual Page Review
When I put together the Key2Success Digital Planner, I wanted a way to organize my vision and plan my year. I wanted the ability to sit down with my digital planner on the Surface Pro or iPad, open an application like, OneNote or GoodNotes, and plan effectively. In the 2021 Key2Success Digital Planning System, the Vision Board is one of my favorite pages as it is designed to help you outline your entire year. This helps direct your goals and actions throughout the rest of the planner.
The Annual Keys page in the Key2Success Digital Planner is designed to help kickstart your digital planning year in the best way possible – by providing you a space to outline your goals for the year. There are four development areas included in the Annual Keys: Self, Relationships, Career, and Community. Each section contains a goal area for you to add your goal statement and the motivation behind it. Understanding why you have a goal is important because it will help you stay focused on your goal.
Whether you are new to personal planning or a longtime advocate of digital planning, we know you are looking for the best digital planner to help you achieve your goals. Today we are going to review the Ideal Week page in the Key2Success Digital Planner. This page is one we encourage investing significant thought and time into.
The Key2Success Planner is designed to help you succeed in digital planning and in life! Each quarter, use the quarterly review pages in your digital personal planner to make sure you are on track with your digital planning goals. The Annual Keys page in the Key2Success Digital Planner is designed to help kickstart your digital planning year, while the Quarterly Keys pages are there to help you measure your progress in key areas throughout the year, sketch your success, and develop a timeline to help maintain your focus on your goals.
The Key2Success Digital Planning system is designed to help you achieve your goals. Our elaborate goal planning pages are organized to help you plan and execute the goals you are hoping to accomplish.The 2021 goal planning page has helped me shape my goals and understand the action steps and benchmarks that I need to meet in order to achieve my goals. Building off the Annual Keys page, the 2021 Goal Planner page contains the following: Goal Summary Reason for Goal Brainstorming Area Key Action Steps
Key2Success™ daily planner pages are designed to keep you focused on the action steps that will drive your success.
Unlocking the Key2Success™ starts each day with determining where you will dedicate most of your attention. This is commonly a project, developing a habit, building a relationship, or self-improvement.
The next key is indicating the 3 most important assignments that will drive home your goals – we call these the Key3™. The Key2Success™ daily page provides you with a task list, a timeline of your day, note section, important calls, and opportunities.
Creating a Shared Notebook has never been easier with OneNote. The shared notebook function allows for users to share pages, sections and entire notebooks, allowing family, friends and co-workers the opportunity to view content.
Shared content is a powerful tool for business users, using OneNote, teams can collaborate across pages of digital notes. This feature makes digital note taking the wave of the future for businesses and teams.
If you are looking for a digital planner for professionals, this is the planner for you. The Key2Success Digital Planner Professional Builder section provides the staple for you as a professional to set goals and create a plan to achieve them. Whether you want to help grow your career or expand your organization, this is the tool that we wanted to roll out to the community to help set priorities and absolute goals.
