Duration

12 Hours

Overview

• Better organize yourself and your workspace for peak efficiency.

• Understand the importance of, and the most useful techniques for, setting and achieving goals.

• Identify the right things to be doing and develop plans for doing them.

• Learn what to delegate and how to delegate well.

• Take control of things that can derail workplace productivity

Course Outline

• Introduction
  • The Time Crunch
  • Objectives

• Time
  • Principles of Time
  • Key Questions for Effective Time Management
  • Key Considerations for Time Management
  • Rules of Time Management

• Managerial Work and Time Management
  • Characteristics of Managerial Work
  • Behaviors of Effective and Successful Managers
  • The Roles of Managers

• Managing Yourself
  • Analyzing Time
  • Appraisal Tools
  • The time Log
  • A Matter of Habit

• Planning Your Work
  • Why don’t we Plan Ahead?
  • Essential Steps in Planning and Prioritizing Work Tasks
  • Setting Objectives

• An Array of Principles for Time Management
  • Organizing Work Place, Filing, Correspondence, and Reading
  • Controlling Interruptions
  • Handling Decisions
  • Crisis Management
  • Delegation

• Underlying Reasons for Poor Time Management
  • Time Wasters Related to Management Functions
  • Beating Back the Time Wasters

• Managing the Time of Your Subordinates
  • Are YOU Your Subordinates’ Problem?
  • Helping Subordinates with Time Management
  • The Team Concept

• Conclusions
  • Analytical Insights
  • Practical Tactics
  • Sanely Pacing Your Day
  • How to Work Better
  • Where Do I Go from Here?