Time Management

There is plenty of time in each day. Learn the proven and most effective approaches to manage it successfully.

Are you struggling with an overwhelming workload and competing demands? Do you feel constantly stretched thin, unable to establish clear priorities and focus? Do you work hard all day but fail to accomplish your most important goals?

Remember, every single hour of your day has an impact on your business and career results. If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, the time has come to make intentional, strategic choices about how you manage and use your time. This seminar is specifically designed to address and eliminate common time management pitfalls and obstacles. It will help you identify what causes procrastination and indecision, locate your personal time-wasters and inefficiencies, increase your ability to concentrate and focus, and help you stay balanced. You will learn to use your time more strategically, keep your attention on what matters most, and maintain your priorities front and center, so you can achieve greater balance, effectiveness, and productivity in everything you do.

Who Should Participate:

Working professionals who desire greater control of their time management practices, management approach, and overall life balance.

Key Benefits and Advantages:

• Define clear goals and accomplish them successfully
• Establish meaningful priorities and create realistic personal and professional boundaries
• Identify and eliminate personal time-wasters and inefficiencies
• Sharpen your focus, concentration, and personal efficiency
• Overcome patterns of procrastination and indecision
• Develop and maintain positive energy and momentum

Course Content and Topics:

• Discovering and identifying your personal time-wasters
• Establishing meaningful goals; defining clear and valid priorities
• Building a realistic and highly productive schedule
• Managing self-imposed distractions and interruptions from others
• Implementing strategies to manage email and digital communication
• Setting healthy boundaries and maintaining work-life balance
• Selecting activities and commitments that align with your priorities
• Creating and practicing your personal script for saying no

Detailed Learning Outline:

Core Learning Outcomes

• Recognize what leads to procrastination and indecision patterns
• Identify your personal time-wasters and productivity drains
• Strengthen your concentration ability and mental focus
• Keep important priorities in focus and stay on track
• Increase your personal effectiveness and overall productivity

Time Management Through Self-Management

• Shift your perspective from managing time as an external commodity to managing yourself more effectively
• Recognize and categorize common time-wasters
• Assess your personal strengths and areas for development related to time control

Planning for Success and Achievement

• Define clear goals that align with your professional role
• Establish meaningful and valuable priorities
• Create a realistic schedule that supports productivity
• Apply a comprehensive planning framework to analyze and modify your plans as needed

When Others Create the Challenge

• Prepare for and participate in meetings with clear objectives and contributions
• Set clear expectations with your colleagues, customers, and leadership
• Manage interruptions and unplanned requests from others

Attention, Concentration, and Focus

• Develop both productivity and operational efficiency
• Reconsider and revise your approach to multitasking
• Overcome the habit of procrastination
• Minimize distractions from technology and digital tools

Setting Boundaries and Achieving Balance

• Make deliberate choices about activities and commitments to create a better balance
• Develop your own personal script and approach for declining requests