Effective Time Management: Prioritizing for Success	QuickCode: QQBTKH
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	Provider: Learning Tree International $1,750  Topic: Leadership & Management > Time & Stress Management General Overview: You will learn how to: Set goals and priorities that enable you to effectively manage your time; Monitor daily work habits and determine areas for improvement; Plan daily tasks and goals that align with your mission statement; Identify, evaluate and select tools that help with time and priority management; Avoid over-committing yourself and combat procrastination; Balance your professional and personal lives; Implement a personal time-management action plan. Keywords: deadlines, priorities, daily pressures, weekly planning, overload, setting goals, gaining control over your time, procrastination, work life balance. Fee per person: $1750. Who Should Attend? This course is valuable for those who want to improve their productivity and strengthen their time-management skills through multiple ways of thinking about and using time more effectively. We Also Recommend: · Time Management · Managing Information Overload: Techniques for Working Smarter

Detailed Overview/Outline

You will learn how to

• Set goals and priorities that enable you to effectively manage your time
• Monitor daily work habits and determine areas for improvement
• Plan daily tasks and goals that align with your mission statement
• Identify, evaluate and select tools that help with time and priority management
• Avoid over-committing yourself and combat procrastination
• Balance your professional and personal lives
• Implement a personal time-management action plan

Course benefits
Critical deadlines, competing priorities and an avalanche of e-mail often leave individuals feeling overwhelmed. Being able to set priorities and allocate time appropriately are critical skills for achieving your goals. Taking control of your time and schedule enables you to increase personal productivity and enhance your quality of life.

This unique approach to time management provides strategies, techniques and tips to set priorities and manage the daily pressures of meeting important and urgent commitments in your life.

Who should attend
This course is valuable for those who want to improve their productivity and strengthen their time-management skills through multiple ways of thinking about and using time more effectively.

Course workshop
In a series of intensive workshops, participants work individually and in small groups to apply the tactics, techniques and skills learned throughout the course. Workshops include:

• Calibrating your internal clock
• Evaluating your time-management skills
• Developing a personal time-management plan
• Building a comprehensive overview of your priorities
• Establishing a framework for daily and weekly planning
• Assessing your overload
• Analyzing the gap between what you do and what you want
• Creating balance in your life

Course content
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

• Setting goals
• Applying self-management solutions
• Tailoring a systematic approach to time and priority management

RECOGNIZING HOW YOU MANAGE TIME

• Avoiding time-management stumbling blocks
• Calibrating your internal time clock
• Creating a schedule that works for you and not against you
• Key questions to help you manage time
• Knowing when time is not the problem
• Dealing effectively with different time paradigms
• Working with alternative cultural time perceptions
• Characteristics of the dominant time paradigm
• Diagnosing time-management issues
• Profiling your current time-usage patterns
• Identifying your personal time-management strengths and weaknesses
• Determining time-management pressure points

GAINING CONTROL OVER YOUR TIME

• Living your purpose
• Developing your personal mission statement
• Aligning your mission statement with your purpose on a daily basis
• Setting goals
• Assessing your current realities
• Developing daily and weekly planning
• Identifying your professional and personal commitments
• Targeting specific activities to achieve your goals

MANAGING YOUR WORK EFFECTIVELY

• Putting planning to work in your life
• Choosing the right time-management tool for yourself
• Paper vs. electronic planners
• Proactively identifying your priorities
• Distinguishing between the important and the urgent
• Overcoming obstacles to prioritizing
• The most critical minutes of the day
• Creating a system for prioritization
• Handling the paper and e-mail flood
• Maintaining paper control
• Setting up your filing system and making it work
• Handling e-mail effectively

CONQUERING OVER-COMMITMENT AND PROCRASTINATION

• The trap of taking on too much
• Warning signs of over-commitment
• Recognizing inappropriate pressures on your time
• Defeating the trap step by step
• Assessing your over-commitment
• Building a case that you are overworked
• The magic word for combating overload
• Dealing with indecision and procrastination
• Techniques for making decisions quickly and accurately
• Combating procrastination

CREATING WORK-LIFE BALANCE

• Assessing the gap between what you do and what you want
• Creating a healthy balance in your life
• Identifying your steps to achieving work-life balance
• The professional benefits of a balanced life
• Planning time for yourself
• Balancing your work and personal life
• Making time to think

A TOOLSET FOR GOING FORWARD

• Powerful, easy-to-apply techniques to create a customized time-management system
• Integrating results into paper-based or electronic planners
• Adaptable approaches that match developments in your life
• Taking control of interruptions
• Designing your present and future

Sponsor Background:
About Learning Tree

Learning Tree International is a world leader in Hands-on training for Management and Technology Professionals. Since 1974, over 1,700,000 course participants from over 13,000 organizations around the world have enhanced their skills through intensive hands-on exercises under the guidance of expert instructors with real-world experience.

Virtually every major company and government agency has relied on Learning Tree to provide its managers and employees with the skills they need to succeed in their job functions.

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