CEUs: 0.60

Fee: $209 ($169 member)

Date: 5/12/09
Time: 8:00am-4:00pm
Location: Tempe - AGTS Learning Center

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Yes, time management is important, but once you’ve got that under your belt, what do you do when there is more than one top priority?  What do you do when you don’t have the luxury of working a project through to its completion before dealing with the next one?  Things get a little trickier, but there is help!

Length:  One 8-hour session

Instructor:  Temme

Who should attend: Employees responsible for handling multiple ongoing tasks and projects.

Benefits:

• Clearer priorities.

• Greater productivity and better follow-through.

• Less crisis management.

• Reduced stress.

• Greater confidence in your ability to manage diverse tasks and projects.

• Greater credibility with management and coworkers.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this program, you will be able to:

• List and practice techniques to stay in control of yourself and your time each day.

• Determine your highest priorities and deal effectively with competing priorities.

• Use strategic planning techniques on projects and be able to break down projects into more manageable portions.

• Describe effective methods for handling obstacles like interruptions, too much email, and procrastination.

• Use proven techniques to deal more effectively with the stress of multiple priorities.

Program Outline:

I.          Identify your top priorities

            A.         Four types of priorities

            B.         Benefits and payoffs for working on the right things

            C.         Priority analysis:  how to define your priorities each day

            D.         Taking control of your work day

II.          Planning and goal setting

            A.         Setting ACTION goals

            B.         Strategic planning to work on goals/projects

            C.         Setting personal life goals

III.         Scheduling:  How to schedule your time to work on the right things

            A.         How to use your “to-do” list creatively

            B.         Using an organizer system (paper or electronic) to schedule important work

            C.         Learn about SRT—strategic reserve time

            D.         How to plan and bring closure to each day

            E.         Using your energy cycle to your advantage

IV.        Dealing with obstacles that can keep you from accomplishing your priorities

            A.         Ineffective delegation

            B.         Interruptions

            C.         Procrastination

            D.         Too much e-mail and paperwork

            E.         Too many meetings

            F.         Discovering your own time management patterns by using a time log

V.         Managing stress:  keeping your cool to accomplish your priorities

            A.         Understand what stresses you and how to manage it

            B.         Stages of burnout

            C.         How vulnerable are you to stress?