Overview
Prioritize crucial projects, manage conflicting demands, reduce pressure and master multiple tasks with confidence
Enroll now for this energizing one-day seminar if you need to get more done in less time … recognize your real priorities … keep track of numerous projects … establish and meet deadlines … and eliminate bottlenecks.
This powerful one-day seminar teaches you the all-important skills that will help you deal with dozens of top priorities. Filled with practical how-to strategies, this time-management training will ensure that you:
- Stop wasting time and get the clock working for you instead of against you
- Take control of your multiple projects, even when they're all top priorities
- Handle with ease all of the unexpected demands and unplanned situations that destroy the most careful scheduling
- Stay cool, calm and collected when the pressure is overwhelming and stress threatens your effectiveness
Agenda
Taking Control of Multiple Tasks — How to run your life, instead of your life running you!
- The practical manager’s guide to goal-setting three simple questions to help you set specific goals effortlessly.
- Four dangerous mistakes that prevent realistic, effective goal-setting.
- A step-by-step action plan to ensure you will meet your short- and long-term goals.
- How to pinpoint your most important priorities and decide how you must deal with each of them.
- Use to-do lists to keep you on track and guide you through today, this week and this year.
- Specific actions to help you prioritize when working with more than one boss.
- How to rid yourself of long-standing duties you and your position have outgrown.
- Common barriers to effective management planning.
Managing Time — How to work with, not against, the clock.
- How good time management boosts productivity, increases satisfaction and affords you more freedom.
- Uncover common myths about time and time management.
- Multi-tasking and focus: concentration is the key for better results.
- Identify the most common time wasters.
- “Where did the time go?” A simple, easy-to-use time log that answers the question precisely.
- Drowning in paper? How to clear a sea of mail, publications and desk cloggers from your workspace.
- Five highly effective telephone management tips to save time and prevent interruptions and distractions.
- Are emails controlling your day? Master your inbox and email habits.
- Make technology a time saver and not a time waster. Learn about the latest productivity tools.
- Specific tactics to prevent the “meeting-go-round” from devouring your time.
- How to hold truly meaningful meetings to prompt decisions, actions and responses.
- Ways to prevent needless visits from coworkers and others that put a dent in your day’s productivity.
- Proven steps you can take to overcome procrastinator in you.
- Warning signs of danger-point procrastination.
- How to solve even the most difficult problems with new speed and confidence.
- Develop effective communication skills that save time.
Handling Unexpected, Difficult Situations — How to plan for the unexpected and manage the most difficult people and situations easily.
- Setting boundaries: How to say “no” without creating hard feelings or feeling guilty.
- Powerful rules for saying “no” that underscore your firmness and win respect.
- Take three decisive steps to prevent others from imposing their priorities on you.
- Real-life approaches to delegation that make everyone more productive.
- Smart alternatives to delegation when you have no assistants or subordinates.
- “It’s easier and faster to do it myself.” How to beat the number one attitude barrier to effective delegation
- Techniques to handle the toughest, personalities – aggressive coworkers, negative attitudes, know-it-alls and more.
- Ask for – and get – the information, resources and cooperation you need from your coworkers.
- Cyber-management: ensure that virtual teams and remote workers are meeting deadlines and productivity targets.
- How to solve even the most difficult problems with new speed and confidence.
- Contingency planning for emergencies and crisis situations.
Dealing with Pressure and Stress — How to stay calm and in control, even in the face of chaos.
- Are you headed for burnout? The seven specific symptoms that signal dangerous overstress.
- Survey: are these 16 hidden stressors in your work environment?
- How to determine your own current pressure level and take timely, immediate steps to reduce and manage stress.
- Sensible guidelines for fostering a competitive, stimulating work atmosphere without excess pressure and stress.
- Easy steps for day-to-day stress reduction.
- Deadline approaching? Six relaxation techniques to calm you down ward regain focus immediately.
- Use time management skills to achieve greater work-life balance.
