Time Management and Goal Setting

Today’s work environment requires managers and individual contributors alike to manage multiple priorities and conflicting demands on time. This course will offer participants an opportunity to understand their time management needs and develop a process for managing them.

Topics covered include:

• Understanding Time management
• The 12 characteristics of effective Time managers
• Understanding event control
• The productivity tri-quation
• Planning: the key to control
• Prioritizing: ordering events
• The Productivity Pyramid, and building the Productivity Pyramid
• Defining, identifying and prioritizing my Governing Values
• Clarifying my Governing Values
• Understanding long-range goals
• Setting Long-range goals
• Identifying intermediate steps
• Capturing today: The Critical Moment
• Quadrant II Time management
• Importance versus urgency
• Time wasters and time robbers
• Controlling procrastination
• Understanding and controlling Interruption
• Improving meeting effectiveness
• Organizing and managing your workspace
• Tips for working with multiple managers
• Managing delegation
• Time management planners
• Franklin Planners, Day Planners, Software planner
• Personal need assessment

Upon completion of this course, the participants will:

• Identify and minimize time wasters,
• Be able to set daily, weekly and monthly work orders and production schedules,
• Develop methods to manage varying workloads that will lead to higher productivity and improvement of quality.