Working Smarter: Managing Your Time and Priorities More Effectively

The speed of everything has changed. Are your time management skills up to the challenge?

Do you put off more today than you can ever accomplish tomorrow exhaust yourself by 4:00 p.m. with only a fraction of your work done see yourself as a decision maker who never gets around to making decisions dread the next business meeting - or worse, going back to your desk to see what voice mails and emails await you? If you’re doing more and enjoying it less, it’s time to get out of the time trap and back to productive management! This seminar gives you practical techniques for controlling time and making it a manageable resource.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Self-Evaluation: How Do You Manage Your Time

• Take the Time-Mastery Profile® to identify how you spend your time
• Highlight your strengths and challenges with time
• Identify timewasters and learn how to avoid them using new techniques

Concentration and Focus

• Learn techniques that will help you complete your tasks at a faster rate
• Discuss how to handle distractions and interruptions-both self- and other-imposed

Planning to Succeed

• Refine the planning process and goal-setting system using the SMART technique

Decision Making and Prioritizing

• Align your priorities with your goals for better decision-making
• Learn about "the window of opportunity" to determine the most appropriate course of action

Getting Organized

• Learn the principles of organization to eliminate clutter and maintain order and effective filing systems
• Learn to manage your phone, e-mail and electronic files

Establishing Boundaries to Create Balance

• Learn when to say "yes" and when to say "no"
• Say "yes" to yourself by saying "no" to others
• Create quiet zones to think, reflect and concentrate
• Build a commitment to your own time-management plan -it's up to you!

Setting SMART Goals

• SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timely
• What are my roles?
• What weekly goal will I set for each role?
• TOPPS: Task, Objective, Product, Program, Schedule
• OPICS: Output, Product, Input, Conditions, Standards
• Setting milestones
• Working the Plan

Why you should Attend:

• Are you concerned about how much time and productivity your people are wasting?
• What about lost energy, efficiency, and effectiveness, especially because people are overtasked and overburdened?
• Would you like to gain an extra 30 minutes each day?
• Would you like to improve your concentration and increase your efficiency?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany leads us all through those important topics, key questions, and answers we all need to be able to address effectively to improve our team members and team's performance, no matter how widely distributed everyone is!

Who Will Benefit:

• CEO
• Senior Vice President
• Vice President
• Executive Director
• Managing Director
• Regional Vice President
• Area Supervisor
• Manager