Course Outline
Effective Time, Task & Work Planning
- Our changing world - personal assessment
- What do I hope to achieve?
- How will I achieve it?
- What has changed in work and life?
- What other changes can we expect?
- How do we manage this?
- What are the implications for me and others?
- Balancing life and work
Why Time Matters and How Your Use of Time Affects Others
- How am I using my time?
- What are my time wasters?
- Time logging
- Why do I put things off?
- Ways that other people use time
- Timelines - how do I view time?
- How does my use of time affect others?
Work Planning and Project Management
- Work management methods diagnostic
- Pressures on work plans - time, quality, cost
- The planning process
- Planning work in progress
- Analyzing and managing risk
- Contingency planning
- Problem-solving techniques
Practical Techniques for Managing Time Wasters
- Managing paperwork, real and virtual
- Managing travel
- Managing meetings
- Making the best use of the phone.
- Using the diary - the key time management tool.
- Managing Interruptions
Making It All Work
- Work planning practical
- Debrief
- Testing your plan
- Analyzing your strengths and needs
- Developing your development plan
Current Status of Setting Goals, Planning, and Decision Making
- Overview and context of organizational change and the impact on goals, planning and decision making
- Understanding of the current status of the organization, team and personal work
- Review of management processes and skill areas
- Using a planning process to set goals and get work started
Importance of Goal Setting and Planning Management
- Integrating goals, scope, work structure and management planning
- Identifying initial resource requirements
- Identifying risk techniques that affect work assignments, priorities, and deadlines
- Communication that responds to who, what where, when, how, why
- Understanding the importance of quality planning in work assignments
Setting Priorities and Making Decisions in the Planning Process
- Using planning to ensure task priorities are established
- Planning for time management, scheduling and meeting deadlines
- Integrating the functions into a final work plan
- Improving communications and listening skills
- Planning for delegation responsibility and authority
- Techniques for making good decisions
Working with Your Team
- Identifying the skills required to obtain the help of others
- The importance of group skills to achieve team success
- The importance of interpersonal skills in making personal and team decisions
- Empowering the team through delegation and decision making
- The importance of effective communication in team relations
Developing Personal and Team Change Action Plans
- Innovation and improvement for personal and team change
- Identification of change processes and human change
- Techniques to set personal and team change goals
- Dealing with people who do not want to change
- Developing an action plan for personal and team change
Testimonials (3)
SMART Goal session was the most enjoyable part of the training that helped me manage my time properly. it helps me set my goal clearer and i could really see that setting SMART Goal can relate to almost everything such as Finance, Social Life, Career and Personal Growth.
Manot Sae - MVCI (Thailand) Limited
Course - Workshop: Boost your productivity with this new method!
I liked the involvement of the trainer and how her energy involved also the participants, the training was interesting, with many practical supporting facts and examples, practical exercises. It was great!
Jelizaveta (Liza) - ASSTRA Forwarding AG
Course - Stress Management and Prevention
We could practice on real situation and Helen gave to me a lot of practical tips.