Basics of Time Management Workshop

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Detailed Overview/Outline

COURSE OVERVIEW
The most common Time Management problem is that people are reactive rather than proactive. Rather than acting towards long-term goals, they react to external pressures. Time Management teaches participants how to reverse that process. Through stimulating and interactive participation and analyzing their own data, participants will learn a set of tools, which they will apply immediately on their new daily planner and carry forward on a continuing basis to:

• Expedite work projects
• Get your arms around your job
• Maintain better customer relations
• Complete projects on time
• Organize their personal and business activities
• Coordinating, Organizing, Planning, and Evaluating
• Discussion on using organizational tools more effectively

The ultimate results of this course will be for participants to:

• 1. Assign priorities to work related goals
• 2. Clarify goals
• 3. Sort out and structure daily tasks
• 4. Working smarter not harder
• 5. Assess the areas where the greatest return on time can be expected
• 6. Determine whether or not activities are goal-directed
• 7. Apply a critical path network system to estimate time and activities required to reach objectives
• 8. Apply data in their own daily organizer, daily planner or Palm Pilot

Course Objectives and Outline
Identifying Obstacles

• State personal objectives for workshop.
• Analyze time audit to understand gaps in time management.
• Exercise #1: Identification of obstacles that prevent us from managing time effectively.
• Exercise #2: Personal behavioral habit assessment.
• Understanding the root of our ineffective time management habits.
• Exercise #3: Developing strategies for overcoming bad habits. Learning to save time by communicating with others efficiently.

Time Leveraging Tools: Goals, Activities and Priorities

• Understanding the importance of setting goals.
• Goal-Getting Guidelines.
• Exercise # 4: Setting Goals: Students will create four well-defined goals
• Identifying Activities: Identifying the specific activities necessary to reach individual goals.
• Sorting through activities using the 4 D principle: Dump, Do, Delegate, Defer.
• Activity #5: Creating list of activities that are tied to specific goals. Applying the 4 D principle.
• Assigning Priority to Goals.
• Exercise # 6: Identifying level of priority for each goal.

Action Planning and Overcoming Obstacles

• Learning to plan daily.
• Using a calendar or time planning tool effectively.
• Managing Deadlines.
• Exercise #7: Defining realistic deadlines.
• Scheduling in Reverse.
• The Pareto Principle.
• The Urgent vs. Important theory: how to be proactive instead of reactive.
• Exercise #8: Urgent vs. Important team competition.
• Review of class objectives/ obstacles. Implementing time management. tools outside of the classroom. Discussion of strategies participants can use to overcome personal obstacles.
• Wrap-up

Bringing this seminar in-house:

SCOPE OF SERVICES

COURSE TITLE:

Time Management

LOCATION:

The Baker Communications Inc.Training Center or client-designated facilities

FACILITIES:

One conference room

One meeting rooms

LENGTH:

One day

TIMES:

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

GROUP SIZE:

Up to 20 participants

INSTRUCTOR(S):

One senior-level Baker Communications Inc. Industry Consultant

COURSE MATERIALS:

All necessary course materials will be provided by Baker Communications Inc.

TEXTBOOK:

Each participant will receive one workbook.

LEARNING METHODS:

Practice exercises, lectures, group discussions, and application exercises.

REINFORCEMENT OPTIONS:

1. KnowledgeCoach

2. KnowledgeTest

3. Quarterly “Best Practice” Webinar

Sponsor Background:
With over 25 years of success in consulting, training, and outplacement services, we can become your strategic partner in reducing costs, increasing profitability and competitive advantage, focusing on the future marketplace, and maintaining a high level of flexibility.

Our products and services have been used on six continents in over 25 countries with 98 percent repeat business. Our staff of PhD course developers, MBA consultants, organizational development specialists, industry experts, and senior instructors has helped us gain this international prominence.

Are you one of the many corporations now focusing on core activities and outsourcing non-core functions in response to intense competition? If you are, Baker Communications can help -- whether you simply want to outsource some of your training or you want to redefine yourself completely to survive mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, downsizing, or corporate restructuring.

Quote From Past Participants:
“What I found most helpful was a bit more 'cut and dry' understanding of how to efficiently and effectively communicate to other personality types.  So much of my day is spent communicating with internal and external customers.  I have plenty to fill the free time I'll be gaining by communicating more efficiently! - Director of Field Operations, Everpure, Inc.

“Taking the time management course did help me to realize I have a very good handle on my time management but I need to more effectively manage others as they pass workflow on to me. I especially enjoyed the analysis of the different personal profiles and being able to understand the way in which these profiles are able to work together or not.” - Bosch Account Specialist, Bosch Rexroth Corp.

"I thoroughly enjoyed the Time Management Class and have recommended the program to my direct supervisor…The analysis of personality types, and their effect on workload planning was especially helpful. Unfortunately, this information is not included in most of the Time Management training materials that I have reviewed in the past." - Agency Support Supervisor, Marketing Builders Insurance Group

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