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Effective Time Management

Investing Time for Maximum Return

 
Course: 344     Type: RealityPlus     Duration: 2 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Integrate proven time management techniques into your daily processes
  • Make informed decisions about what you do and when
  • Apply a structured whole-brain process to shape your current and future commitments
  • Proactively schedule tasks, construct weekly plans and daily to-do lists
  • Adopt strategies and techniques to handle procrastination and interruptions
  • Develop a personal action plan to reap the most benefit from your efforts

Course Benefits
The productivity of individuals and organizations hinges greatly on their ability to manage time efficiently. Harnessing this critical resource increases both employee output and organizational competitiveness. In this course, you gain the practical skills to develop and implement a framework for successful time management. You adopt proven tools and techniques to make day-to-day choices about managing your time and achieving your goals.

Who Should Attend
This course is valuable for anyone who wants to improve their productivity by managing time more effectively and for those who wish to develop more balance and control over their time commitments.

Extensive individual and group activities immerse you in a real-world environment based on your own unique time management situation. Activities include:
  • Identifying your personal time style
  • Constructing and applying an Issues/Impact matrix
  • Mapping and analyzing current commitments and preferred future situations
  • Formulating SMART objectives
  • Modeling interpersonal techniques to handle interruptions based on a video scenario
  • Collaborating with others to create best practice guidelines
  • Developing a customized post-course time management toolkit

Course 344 Content
Introduction to Time Management
  • Perceiving time as life
  • Adopting a whole-brain approach
Managing Time Through Self-Management Principles
Essentials of time management
  • Contrasting time-planning and time management
  • Avoiding the psychological time trap
  • Taking control of your life through the choices you make
Determining your time style
  • Evaluating your current strengths
  • Recognizing opportunities for improvement
  • Assessing the effect of your time style on others
Gaining control over your time
  • Appraising your situation with an Issues/Impact matrix
  • Targeting factors that adversely impact your time
Mapping and Analyzing Your Current Situation
Incorporating a time planning process model
  • Harnessing the power of a structured approach
  • Reusing the model throughout your life
  • Customizing the model to fit your style and needs
Determining your primary purposes
  • MindMapping current commitments and responsibilities
  • Defining the purpose for each commitment
Assessing your realities
  • Weighing the value of current efforts
  • Making choices in a planned way
  • Deriving tasks--the raw material of time planning
Planning for the Future
Envisioning where you want to be
  • Leveraging the power of imagination
  • Articulating your personal mission
  • Choosing a future that works for you
Setting challenging goals
  • Creating a sense of direction
  • Generating personal momentum for action
  • Formulating SMART objectives
Moving toward your goals
  • Initiating changes to your situation
  • Selecting the tasks to achieve your goals
Prioritizing and Scheduling
Proactively identifying your priorities
  • Maximizing the Important/Urgent matrix
  • Applying The Pareto Principle to determine the greatest results for least effort
  • Prioritizing with ABC123
Building your schedule
  • Assigning tasks into a weekly and daily schedule
  • Scheduling to create greater work-life balance
  • Creating a dynamic to-do list
  • Reducing mental clutter
Managing Your Time Day To Day
Overcoming procrastination
  • Identifying the root causes of inaction
  • Beating the deadline-driven trap
  • Approaching your tasks positively
Focusing your attention
  • Diffusing interruptions constructively
  • Conquering over-commitment
Handling the flood of e-mail
  • Optimizing e-mail for your advantage
  • Stepping off the "e-mail-go-round"
Customizing your workspace
  • Architecting your most effective environment
  • Designing a personal information flow and retrieval process
Getting the Best Return on Your Time Investment
Analyzing your progress
  • Conducting regular reviews
  • Comparing planned vs. actual usage with a time log
Changing your time habits for the better
  • Calculating potential time savings
  • Exercising the freedom to do it your way
  • Writing a Personal Statement of Commitment

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Judi Williams
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Course Tuition
$ 1,750 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,580 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 1,575 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 1,375 Government Discount
 

 

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