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Effective Time Management

Investing Time for Maximum Return
 
Course: 344   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 2 Days
 
 

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.

Course Workshop

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

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Dec 15 - 16, 2008
 Philadelphia
Jan 5 - 6, 2009
 Ottawa
Jan 12 - 13, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Feb 2 - 3, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Feb 9 - 10, 2009
 Toronto
Mar 2 - 3, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Mar 16 - 17, 2009
 New York
Mar 23 - 24, 2009
 Dallas
Mar 30 - 31, 2009
 Philadelphia
Apr 6 - 7, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Apr 20 - 21, 2009
 N. New Jersey
Apr 27 - 28, 2009
 Los Angeles
May 4 - 5, 2009
 Boston (Waltham)
May 4 - 5, 2009
 Ottawa
May 11 - 12, 2009
 Toronto

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TRAINING YOU CAN TRUST
 
 

Effective Time Management

Investing Time for Maximum Return
 
Course: 344   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 2 Days
 
 
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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Effective Time Management Tuition

Investing Time for Maximum Return
 
Course: 344   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 2 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 1,800 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 900 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 1,620 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 1,414 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,670 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $5,000
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $305 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

Your Guarantee of Satisfaction

Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course--and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the tuition.

Enrolling is Easy and Flexible!

Enroll by phone or online. If your plans change, just let us know and, without a fee, you can transfer to another course or cancel your enrollment. Pay after you've taken the course, and then only if you are 100% satisfied.
 
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