Course Code: 18939

Leadership: Organizing Your Time for Maximum Productivity

Class Dates:
6/16/2023
8/11/2023
Length:
1/2 Days
Cost:
$175
Class Time:
Technology:
business
Delivery:
Instructor-Led Training, Virtual Instructor-Led Training

Overview

  • Course Overview
  • This course will introduce concepts and techniques necessary to help you learn how to bounce back and refocus in order to remain productive and regain control of your time. This in turn will allow you to complete your work more effectively and deliver on time and without stress. You will be able to apply practical skills and learn basic techniques for improving your organization, prioritization, and delegation skills in a comfortable setting, employing content that's easy to learn.
  • Audience
  • Professionals looking to learn time management, effective organization techniques, prioritization, and delegation.

Prerequisites

Course Disclaimer

*Course Cost listed does not include the cost of courseware. Course is subject to a minimum enrollment. Course may run virtually as a Virtual Instructor-Led (VILT) class if the minimum enrollment is not met. For more information, please contact learn@vtec.org or call 207-775-0244.

Course Details

  • Module 1: Time management and productivity: An overview
  • How to diagnose and avoid poor time management skills
  • The myths of multitasking
  • Why we procrastinate—and how to stop
  • About lateness
  • Techniques for staying focused
  • Module 2: Organization and planning
  • Filing vs. piling
  • Hierarchic data structure
  • Setting goals
  • Setting expectations
  • Diagnosing problems
  • Planning and its benefits
  • Module 3: Productivity
  • Identifying productivity styles
  • Prioritization
  • Urgency vs. importance
  • ABC's of prioritization
  • The prioritization matrix
  • Tips for prioritizing tasks
  • Delegation
  • Scoring your ability to delegate
  • The Seven Steps of Delegation
  • Micromanagement, its symptoms, and its solutions
  • Module 4: Time management
  • Time "bandits"
  • Dealing with interruptions—in person, by phone, or by email
  • Dealing with phone interruptions
  • Managing meetings
  • Learning to say No
  • Practicing assertiveness
  • Dealing with stress and anxiety
  • Module 5: Aids to productivity
  • Productivity strategies
  • The Pomodoro technique
  • Productivity apps
  • Module 6: Wrap-up
  • Developing good habits
  • Franklin's approach to changing one's habits
  • Tips for organizing yourself
  • Plan and prepare
  • Your personal goals