Time Management

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Get control of your entire workday through effective time management!

When it comes to time management, do you put off more today than you can ever accomplish tomorrow…have a tough time prioritizing tasks when everything is urgent...exhaust yourself by 4:00 p.m. with only a fraction of your work done…see yourself as a decision maker who never gets around to making decisions…dread the next business meeting—or worse, going back to your desk to see what voice mails and e-mails await you?

If you’re doing more and enjoying it less, it’s time to get out of the time trap and back to productivity through effective time management! This seminar gives you practical techniques for controlling time and making it a manageable resource.

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT:

• Recognize key components of effective goal setting through time management
• Discover your time management strengths and self-management opportunities
• Discover quick and easy ways to handle nonvalid tasks
• Manage multiple priorities based on validity and urgency
• Identify ways to deal with distractions and eliminate interruptions
• Set group goals and priorities
• Learn strategies to improve your concentration and increase your efficiency
• Implement tools and techniques for effective multitasking and scheduling abilities

WHAT YOU WILL COVER:

Planning Your Way to Success

• Recognizing the key components of effective goal setting
• Creating clearly defined goals based on your role

Managing Multiple Priorities—Focus on the Important and Valid

• Setting priorities using importance and validity as guideposts
• Using urgency to break ties between competing priorities
• Learning to distinguish between competing priorities based on validity and urgency

Concentration—Your Key to Productive Efficiency

• Learning ways to improve your concentration
• Identifing ways to deal with distractions and interruptions

Taming the Typical Time Wasters

• Learning the IOK method for handling paperwork
• Eliminating (or at least minimize) e-mail overload
• Diagnosing and treating your procrastinating ways using seven timely tips

Managing Meaningful Meetings

• Identifying reasons why some meetings are ineffective
• Planning and leading more productive meetings

Establishing Boundaries to Create Balance

• Prioritizing and choosing your activities to provide balance
• Understanding the importance of honoring your own time

Crafting Your Time Mastery Plan

• Writing two SMART goals for your time mastery plan
• Transferring your key learnings into action

Who Should Attend

Business professionals who want greater control of their time, management style and life by using effective time management techniques.

Includes tips on coping with voice mail and e-mail.

This Seminar Features Blended Learning

AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner—producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant.

Extended Description

Learning Objectives

• Recognize Key Components of Effective Goal Setting through Time Management
• Discover Your Time Management Strengths and Self-Management Opportunities
• Manage Multiple Priorities Based on Validity and Urgency
• Redirect Your Efforts to the Most Important and Valid Tasks
• Identify Ways to Deal with Distractions and Eliminate Interruptions
• Set Group Goals and Priorities
• Discover Quick and Easy Ways to Handle Non-Valid Tasks
• Learn Strategies to Improve Your Concentration and Increase Your Efficiency
• Implement Tools and Techniques for Effective Multi-tasking and Scheduling Abilities

Time Management Is Self-Management

• Define Time
• Understand and Reconcile the Shifting Priorities in Your Workday
• Identify Typical Time-Wasters in Your Workday
• Categorize the Time-Wasters as Self or Other Imposed
• Identify the Value (Cost) of Your Time
• Recognize Effective Time Management as Self-Management
• Learn the Six Key Steps to Value and Control Your Time
• Identify Your Current Time Management Strengths and Self-Management Opportunities

Planning Your Way to Success

• Understand the Goal-Setting Process
• Recognize the Key Components of Effective Goal Setting
• Create Clearly Defined Goals Based on Your Role
• Develop Skills to Set SMART Goals
• Write Your Own SMART Goal(s)

Managing Multiple Priorities—Focus on the Important and Valid

• Set Priorities Using Importance and Validity as Guideposts
• Use Urgency to Tie-Break between Competing Priorities
• Create Five Windows of Time
• Open a New Window of Opportunity
• Redirect Your Efforts to the Most Important and Valid Tasks Based on Your Role and Responsibilities
• Discover Five Ways to Handle Non-Valid Tasks
• Prioritize Your Day by Answering Nine Key Questions
• Effectively Delegate Appropriate Tasks
• Implement Four Techniques to Improve Your Scheduling Abilities
• Commit to Follow-up Strategies to Ensure Your Success

Concentration—Your Key to Productive Efficiency

• Develop an Understanding of the Terms "Productive" and "Efficient" and Learn to Distinguish between the Two Concepts
• Uncover the Myth of Multitasking
• Understand the Importance of Concentration and Focus
• Identify Your Concentration Quotient
• Learn Ways to Improve Your Concentration
• Identify Fifteen Ways to Deal with Distractions
• Utilize Twenty Tips to Eliminate/Minimize Interruptions
• Focus Your Efforts and Skills to Increase Your Effectiveness

Taming the Typical Time-Wasters

• Get Organized and Stay Organized
• Learn the IOK Method for Handling Paperwork
• Incorporate Some of the Twenty-Four Timely Tips for Putting Paperwork in Its Place
• Use the Top Twenty Suggestions for Eliminating E-mail Overload
• Diagnose and Treat Your Procrastinating Ways Using Seven Timely Tips

Managing Meaningful Meetings

• Identify Reasons Why Some Meetings Are Ineffective
• Match Your Meeting Method to Your Message
• Develop Ways to Ensure Your Meetings Have Meaning
• Incorporate Thirteen Timely Tips to Make Your Meetings Meaningful
• Plan and Lead More Productive and Effective Meetings
• Learn Effective Meeting Attendee Behaviors
• Improve Your Meeting Attendee Skills
• Deal with Difficult Attendees

Establish Boundaries to Create Balance

• Prioritize and Choose Your Activities to Provide Balance
• Use the Ten Timely Tips for Establishing Boundaries
• Understand the Importance of Honoring Your Own Time
• Say Yes to Yourself by Saying No to Others

Crafting Your Time Mastery Plan

• Identify Three Key Learnings from the Seminar
• Write Two SMART Goals for Your Time Mastery Plan
• Transfer Your Key Learnings into Action

Sponsor Background:
The American Management Association was founded in 1923. They have built a content control check into every one of their professional seminars. Plus a series of checks and balances to ensure that the content of every AMA seminar is precisely targeted to:

• provide comprehensive, hands-on training that is of practical use when you return to the job
• focus on need-to-know specifics, relevant to the demands of global business today
• offer the expertise and personalized attention of top-ranking instructors
• facilitate your career development and business savvy

Whether you're looking for a solid foundation of business fundamentals or strategies to help you seize growth opportunities for your company, AMA offers expert instruction to help you:

• manage your priorities effectively
• cultivate more productive working relationships
• increase your on-the-job value
• align your skills with marketplace demands
• bring out the best in people, processes and yourself

Cancellation and Refund Policy

If you cannot attend a seminar you may contact AMA in advance to transfer to a future session, or can send someone to take your place. If you need to cancel your attendance, AMA will give you a complete refund if you cancel more than three weeks before your seminar begins. To cancel, simply call. If you cancel with less than three weeks' notice, you will be liable for the entire seminar fee, however you may request a courtesy transfer to use at any future AMA seminar of equal or lesser value. The courtesy transfer must be used within one year of the date of your originally scheduled seminar. In fairness to all attendees, if you do not attend a seminar session for which you are confirmed, and do not cancel with a minimum of three weeks’ notice as described above, you will be charged the entire seminar fee.

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