Time Management
Training Workshops:
We help the participants in our
Time Management training workshops to accomplish their time management goals through the use of our
Time Management Use Analysis Tools which include case study
analysis, time management skill analysis, group problem solving, priority
analysis, time management games and exercises, and on line pre-work.
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Participants in our Time Management training workshops will learn:
- How to devote more time to important activities every day
- How to prevent those daily “fires” from undermining important
goals
- To identify and communicate goals that keep priorities straight
- How to design an effective To-Do list
- How to deal with interruptions
- The art of delegating low-priority tasks
- How to organize your “busy work,” errands, etc.
- How to use Time Blocks to maintain effectiveness
- How to eliminate most annoying paper work
- To balance professional responsibilities with personal time
- To choose and use time management tools
- How to set goals and evaluate them so that they provide value
- How to stop procrastinating NOW
- How to say NO (in a nice way, of course)
- Identify and arrest time bandits
Time Management Training:
Effective Time Management Workshops: How Not to Let People Take Too Much of Your Time
However organized a person you may be and however much you may care about keeping up with your "to do list", there are some people who can take too much of your time and prevent you from staying on schedule. Preventing others for consuming more of your time than you actually have is the best defense.
When it comes to clients, let the voice mail or your assistant take the messages for you while you can still get away with it. When it comes to supervisors, spend time where you can work hard but not be easily reached and leave a note on the office door saying that you are in the library, taking care of errands or experimenting in the lab. Work is a good excuse even when it comes to bosses. If the boss is actually you and your employees keep you busy with unimportant matters, you can always ask them how their work is going to make them want to shorten the discussion. When coworkers spend too much time chatting with you, you will both be seen as idle and distracted. It is best to shorten the talks for both your ability to stay focused as well as for your reputation at the job. Here are some good lines to use with them: "I would really like to talk but it's not the right time, I'm sorry", "I have to finish this, I'll meet you at lunch time in the break room", "Could this please wait? I have to send this by 2 o'clock and I'm still working on it".
Where family and friends are concerned, you may be disappointed with yourself for thinking that they are stealing away your time. If staying focused at work is important to you, then just offer them as much of your free time as you can so that they don't need you in your working hours. In this way you won't be feeling bad about saying no to them from time to time either, because you actually give them attention whenever you can.
When it comes to new acquaintances whom you know you cannot get closer too, try and let them understand from starters that you are a busy person and that exchanging regular visits is not something that can fit into your schedule. Not being prompt when returning phone calls and not telling them things that are personal to you will maintain your relationship at the level of just being acquaintances. This attitude is fairer than it is to make friends with someone new and drop him or her when you see that you cannot keep up.
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