Course Description
Competition, stress, downsizing, outsourcing—just a few of the issues that most organizations and employees at all levels face today. The necessity to produce more with less has never been higher. This powerful program not only establishes a foundation for these issues but also introduces the knowledge base, methods, tools and skills crucial to managing and mastering your time.

Features
Our facilitators bring real-world experience to every workshop.
You will work through scenarios providing an experiential learning environment

Topics

Establishing a starting point
What is our current state?
Can we identify the strengths?
Can we identify the weaknesses?
What are the benefits of change?

Understanding systems thinking
The nature of a system
Process management
Standard deviation
Optimization vs sub-optimization

The 10 Classic Time Wasters
Do we recognize them?
What is their impact and our Response-Ability?
Control and Influence
The scope of our resources

What comes before first things first?
Aim, Mission, Goals, Projects, and Objectives
Unity of purpose

Proactive vs Reactive Resource Allocation
The source of stress
The source of frustration
The source of guilt
The source of fulfillment

Outline Summary
Taking Control
Redefining the interruption
Telephone techniques
Drop-ins
Mail, E-type
Meeting management
Tools and Techniques of the Trade
Resource cycles
Time logs
Calendars, planners and schedules
Proven planning systems
Are you a Fire Fighter?
Managing vs leading
Process limitation
Reducing the fires
Living in a Project Oriented Environment
Making the links to projects big and small
Workspace Design and Management
The mental productivity killer
How organized is too organized
Trusty tips
Communicating for Productivity
The origins of mistakes and errors
A model of communication
Covey’s 5th habit
Operational definitions
The effect of method
A Call to Action
Where to begin the transformation