Time Management: Increase Your Personal Productivity and Effectiveness

Overview

Course Description

Many managers and employees struggle to meet the ever-increasing demands of their jobs. Double-booked schedules, changing priorities, and countless distractions challenge even the most organized individuals. This class provides extremely valuable tools and practices to prioritize mission-critical activities, plot out your day, manage multiple tasks, minimize distractions, and control unreasonable demands. The class is very hands on: participants engage in numerous exercises around time management best practices. Topics include:  

• Identify and prioritize high-return activities
• Cultivate will power
• Improve your focus
• Build breathing room into your schedule
• Make tangible progress on important activities
• Set boundaries with unreasonable or unachievable requests

Prerequisites

This course has no prerequisites.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Take Stock

• Determine Work That Matters
• Too Much Stress versus Not Enough Stress
• Your Personal Productivity Style

Lesson 2: Plan Your Day

• The Critical Importance of Planning
• Align Time Management to Your Goals
• Four-Step Tool to Help Reach Your Goals
• Using Agile Sprints to Accomplish Your Goals
• Commit Less; Accomplish More
• Saying, “No” Appropriately
• The Right and Wrong People to Ignore
• Cultural Shift: Giving Yourself Permission to Work Less

Lesson 3: Finding Focus

• Minimizing Office Distractions
• Train Your Brain to Focus
• Things That Kill Your Focus
• Willpower Over Distractions
• Mindfulness Through the Workday

Lesson 4: Take Time Off

• Upcoming Vacations Should Increase Your Work Stress
• Critical Work to Accomplish Before a Vacation; and Non-Critical Work Options
• Resuming Work with Minimal Pain