Time Management and Personal Effectiveness
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Time Management and Personal Effectiveness Course
Introduction:
Time management means working efficiently, and employers in every industry look for staff that can make optimal use of the time available to them on the job. Saving time saves the organization money and increases revenue. Effective time management requires staff to analyze their workload, assign priorities, and maintain focus on productive endeavors.
Learn how to take control of personal and professional matters by attending this interactive course.
The Time Management and Personal Effectiveness training course will help you refocus, get events into proportion, and create a more productive approach to your work and personal life. By being less stressed and by using the creative thinking tools offered in this program, you will be able to create new and valuable ideas for your business and radically improve your effectiveness.
The course will identify the essential personal effectiveness skills needed in today's fast-paced environment, and focus on applying these key skills utilizing the process you choose (paper-based, e-tools, or both).
Course Objectives:
By the end of the Time Management and Personal Effectiveness training course, participants will be able to:
- Develop effective techniques for planning and achieving short and long-term goals
- Prioritize your daily activities/tasks to accomplish your most important work
- Plan and schedule the necessary time for highly important projects
- Make effective decisions and handle information flow efficiently
- Delegate with confidence and track delegations with greater ease and success
- Gain control through personal organization and desk management
- Use creativity and mind-mapping techniques to effectively design and manage projects
- Plan and execute productive meetings
- Achieve balance in the key areas of your life
Who Should Attend?
Time Management and Personal Effectiveness training course, is ideal for:
- All practitioners who juggle different responsibilities, deal with time pressures and those who struggle with multi-tasking and procrastination.
- Those who would like to better understand why they get stuck in work backlog and negative time patterns and want to learn about strategies that help them overcome these.
Course Outlines:
Dimensions of Time Management & Personal Effectiveness
- Program introduction and objectives
- Action planning and enhancing personal and team effectiveness
- Making the most of office technology
- Chronic intelligence
- Time-stealers and costs of poor time management
- Priority setting – rational and emotional approaches
- Ten principles of effective time management
- Handling and making requests
- Behavioral analysis and time management
Personal Planning Systems/ Interruptions/Project Planning/Stress
- Getting the best from diaries and to-do lists
- Proactive planning to meet key responsibilities
- Developing time-based planning – daily, weekly, monthly plans, etc
- Handling interruptions – developing a time-sensitive culture
- Planning project-type work
- Principles of Critical Path Analysis and implications for priority setting
- Understanding stress
- Managing stress in self and others
- Dealing with change – taking and getting a positive response
Getting the Best from Other People/Communication /Meeting Skills
- Delegation – giving and receiving
- Team-working and team-building
- Improving communication and working relationships
- Assertiveness
- Effective and efficient meetings – ‘everybody’s a chair body’
Office Ergonomics/ Managing Information/ Efficient Reading & Writing
- Optimizing the office environment
- Handling the paper load and developing paperless systems
- Managing e-mails
- Improving the efficiency of management reporting
- Using and developing relational databases
- Business writing and the principles of ‘rapid composition’
- Rapid and efficient reading – digesting and retaining information
- Mind-mapping
Developing Creativity/Continuous Improvement/ Self-Development
- Developing creativity in self and others
- How the brain works and creative thinking techniques
- Developing a culture of continuous improvement
- Implementing change initiatives
- Influencing skills – making a case and managing the ‘politics’
- Continuing professional development – a proactive approach
- Program review and action plans
