Skip to main content

CR 2-223 Organizing the Absent-Minded Professor

Instructor: Melanie Sobocinski
Total time: 89 minutes
CEUs: 1.5
Conference Year: 2017


Course Description
Professors are among the potential client base of nearly every professional organizer. This session is geared to those who work with scattered, intelligent creatives, or those who want to explore expanding their business to the higher education market. It is intended to inspire my colleagues to work with professors (and not be intimidated by them) by understanding their challenges, how transfer of organizing skills can benefit this under-served group, categories and tools particularly useful in this setting, and ways to reach out and engage with the higher-education market.

Learning Objectives
1. Discuss the challenges professors face.
2. Where to start and what to do.
3. Identify the different ways to market to professors.

Code Words
Please be sure to listen for and record the code words given during the presentation. The instructor will explicitly verbalize code words periodically throughout the class (i.e. "The first code word is...")
Note: Not all instructors give code words. If you do not hear any, please indicate "none given" on the course evaluation.