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MLC 116 - Time and Priority Management Advanced

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Course Description

Successful leaders are those who possess and practice the management skills and techniques that maintain work productivity at high levels. Effective priority, time, performance and pressure management is essential for career success and personal achievement. In this course, participants will learn how to take more control of their workloads by organizing tasks, time, priorities, people and themselves more effectively

Course Objectives

  • Understanding where and why we lose time
  • Learning how to improve managing other's time
  • Understanding how to effectively manage priorities
  • Understanding the principles of project management to organize the workload more effectively
  • Increasing productivity by prioritizing work and maintaining goals
  • Learning the techniques that increase the ability to clarify priorities

Who Should Attend?

  • Managers
  • Executives
  • Supervisors
  • Anyone who is involved in developing and implementing plans

Course Details/Schedule

Day 1

  • What do I hope to achieve?
  • How will I achieve it?
  • What has changed in work and life?
  • Balancing life and work
  • Managing your job
  • Defining objectives
  • Establishing responsibilities and priorities
  • Practical planning activities

Day 2

  • Priority management techniques
  • How am I using my time?
  • Time wasters
  • Time logging
  • Time lines
  • Deciding if a meeting is necessary
  • Using the PAT approach
  • Building the agenda
  • Keeping things on track
  • Making sure the meeting was worthwhile

Day 3

  • How does my use of time affect others?
  • Work pressures
  • When to delegate
  • To whom should you delegate
  • How should you delegate
  • The importance of full acceptance

Day 4

  • The planning process
  • Analyzing and managing risk
  • Problem solving techniques
  • Work planning
  • Testing plans
  • The Urgent versus Important Matrix
  • Assertiveness

Day 5

  • Analyzing strengths and needs
  • Developing personal development plan
  • Creating your Productivity Journal
  • Maximising the power of your productivity journal
  • The Glass Jar: rocks, pebbles, sand and water
  • Chunk, block and tackle
  • Ready, Fire, Aim!