COURSE TITLE
TIME MANAGEMENT:
Organize For Peak Performance
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OVERVIEW  

Time is money, the adage goes, and lots of it gets lost in disorganization and disruption. This workshop helps you organize and prioritize for greater workplace efficiency. You’ll learn to get a grip on your office space, organize your work flow, learn how use your planner effectively, say no without guilt, and delegate some of your work to other people. This workshop is full of ideas for organizing your work area and your paperwork and working on the “right” things.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES  
  • Better organize yourself and your workspace for peak efficiency.
  • Understand the importance of and the most useful techniques for setting and achieving goals.
  • Identify the right things to be doing and develop plans for doing them.
  • Learn what to delegate and how to delegate well.
  • Take control of those things that would derail workplace productivity
COURSE OUTLINE  

      1. Introduction and Course Overview
      2. Left Brain/Right Brain
      3. Case Study: Another Day at the Office
      4. Setting Goals
      5. Planning
        • Planning Tools
      6. The Four D’s
      7. Organizing your Workspace
      8. Organizing Files for Retrieval
        • Sorting Based on File Type
        • Batching Technique  
      9. Managing Your Workload
        • Case Study: Mary Marvelous
        • Workload Analysis
      10. Delegation
      11. Projects
      12. Set a Ritual
METHODOLOGY  
  • Large group discussions
  • Individual work and reflection
  • Small group discussion and exercises
  • Individual exercises and practice sessions
  • Lecturettes
  • Case Studies
WHO SHOULD ATTEND  
  • All levels of employees
PRE-REQUISITES

 
  • Completed pre-assignment
DURATION  
  • 1 Day
CLASS SIZE  
  • .6 – 20