Services

At Red Tuxedo, we offer a range of services from entry-level group classes to on-going system design and coaching. Any of these services can be tailored for specific requirements.

24-Hour Turnaround™

The 24-Hour Turnaround™ is essentially an office intervention, scheduled over three business days. During a 24HT, we will implement a previously designed* iPEP “finding system” into the current paper (and digital) information flow in a small (five or fewer partners) professional practice. As part of the 24HT, we will teach you and your staff how to use the iPEP, how to process incoming paper and digital files, and deliver our Staying Changed training.

8-Hour Miracle!™

During an 8-Hour Miracle, we spend one dedicated work day creating a “productive environment” in one person’s office. As part of an 8HM, we will teach you how to use the iPEP (Productive Environment Platform), a finding system to help manage both paper files and any digital information you want to keep. At the end of the 8-Hour Miracle™, we guarantee three things:

On-Going Support

Many of our clients are relieved to find that the systems we design are clear and to a large extent, self-maintaining (OK, not exactly… the systems don’t maintain themselves… but they do make it easier for someone to maintain them). However, some clients know themselves and their work well enough to have come to accept that on-going (self) organization is not going to happen. For these people, we offer on-going support in two “flavors.”

Making Sense of the Mess, and Cutting Through the C***

In addition to the defined services above, we are also available for freelance consulting in the areas knowledge management, information visualization, dashboard creation, and clarification. “Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled data longing to be free…” Oops. That’s not how it goes. But it is how it works. If you need charts prepared, datasets pushed and prodded, or a dashboard that shows where you are, right now, compared to your targets, give us a call. We’re good at this.

Similarly, if you’re not sure that some form of written communication (website, report, letter) says what you want it to say, let us take a look at it and make some suggestions. We’re not professional copywriters by any means. But we are pretty good editors and 20 years of reviewing corporate writing has given us a taste for clarity in communication.

Support for New Faculty in Tenure Track Appointments

A subset of our clients are new faculty in tenure track positions. We provide custom coaching and productivity services designed to help them make the best possible use of the first months of their appointment. See the Tenure Track Coaching page for more information.

Classes

The Magic 6: Tools for Productivity

This one-hour class, offered regularly at the Team Nimbus office in Raleigh, addresses the essential tools that everyone who works in an office must have to ensure a productive day. The class is free.

Staying Changed

Staying Changed is based on the latest research about why some communities, and some individuals, are able to maintain new behavior when similar efforts in other communities fall under the wheels of the “change back” train. When delivered with a 24HT, Staying Changed will be tailored for the specific challenges of a particular practice’s culture.

Productivity Overview

The Productivity Overview is a three-hour class that addresses the major components of personal productivity:

Defining productivity for one’s own life
Life mapping
The Magic 6
Filing: alpha sort vs. indexed and how to decide which system to use
To-do lists
Decision support
Project management

The class is offered regularly at the Team Nimbus office in Raleigh, as well as at other locations around the Triangle. The class is $150 per person.

Special topics

We also offer focused classes on E-mail management, Calendar Blocking, Life Mapping, Filing, and To-do list creation and management. Please inquire.

Comments on this entry are closed.