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Overview
Here's just some of what you'll learn:
- How to pinpoint the time-wasters that are dragging down productivity of specific individuals or the whole team
- Five things successful project managers do every day to keep projects on track, on time and on budget
- When to reprioritize, reorganize, or reject work activities that may no longer be in step with team objectives
- Why you should take a good look at yourself first: Are you modeling behaviors that drain productivity out of the day?
- Strategies to help you reroute work and learn to delegate effectively
- Ways to easily track and monitor team and individual priorities, projects and assignments
- How to build a communication framework and meeting schedule that best fits the needs of your team
Agenda
Managing Time, Setting Priorities
The effective manager’s guide to success
- How to identify and prioritize your most important accountabilities, responsibilities and deliverables
- Ways to detect time-wasters that are affecting the productivity of an individual or the entire team
- Guidelines for determining top priorities and requirements for success
- How to decide which processes can be simplified to create a more direct path to attainment of work goals
- Clues that it’s time to reprioritize or discontinue tasks that slow productivity
- Techniques for streamlining critical functions that are built into your schedule — such as financial, budget, HR and payroll — so that you’re consistently on time and on target
Forming Solid Time-Management Habits
Strategies for personal productivity and teamwork
- Why your goal to squeeze the most out of every day must start with an honest analysis of the way you usually spend your time and energy
- How to implement your time and productivity plan, form new habits and budget your time wisely each day
- Tactics for getting team members to respect your work approach, habits and patterns
- How to use technology to enhance your productivity (and tips for recognizing new gizmos and toys that will only slow things down)
- Ways to eliminate “Achilles’ heel” supervisory bad habits that hamper results and threaten career success
- A realistic plan for dealing with the procrastination, self-doubt and stress that can crush your productivity and focus
Achieving Key Goals and Ensuring Results
The essentials of team management
- How to spot opportunities to reroute key work assignments and delegate effectively
- An easy way to track individual and team priorities, projects and assignments
- Methods for building “supervisory success” into every day, week and month Ideas that bring fun to the workplace and keep team members focused on objectives
- Strategies for determining how much control, follow-up, tracking and feedback is needed for each team member and assignment
- How to build a communication and meeting schedule that best fits the needs — and agendas — of your team members
- Signs that “micromanagement” is killing morale or jeopardizing the quality of the end product
- How to encourage positive information flow between you and your staff members — and reduce follow-up time
- Tips to stay updated on every important activity in your department
Handling Projects, Special Assignments, New Initiatives
Solutions for workplace challenges
- Three actions to take when projects are behind schedule, over budget, or out of focus
- How to make your supervisors aware of your workload and accomplishments — and those of your team — without whining, grandstanding, showing off, or wearing them out
- Seven steps managers must complete when presented with new assignments, responsibilities or initiatives
- Tactics to get the resources you need — even when budgets are tight
- How to use your unique management style to get results from team members and others within the organization
- Five things successful project managers do every day to keep projects on track, on time and on budget
- The best way to reallocate time, projects and assignments when new initiatives arise