Time Management and Personal Effectiveness Course
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Time Management and Personal Effectiveness Course
Course Overview:
Time Management and Personal Effectiveness is a training course where the learners will be provided skills to help them carry out different activities including the management of time and focusing on one or two primary activities only.
At the conclusion of the course, participants will acquire skills on how to plan for the accomplishment of both short and long-range goals understood, manage tasks and engage in effective delegation and orderly arrange their work places for enhanced work outcomes.
The course tackles very important areas such as making choices, managing time interruptions, anxiety control, developing a project and effective tactics in communication. Apart from these, he will learn and implement ways of thinking outside the box, hones on redefining the scope of work, and improving oneself to attain a better balance in their personal life and work in a team more productively.
This is a good course for persons experiencing time issues as a result of too many tasks, indecision or procrastination, and an untouched work queue.
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
- Programme introduction and objectives
- Action planning and enhancing personal and team effectiveness
- Making the most of office technology
- Chronistic 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 chairbody’
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
- Programme review and action plans
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