Course Outline

Effective Time, Task & Work Planning

  • Our changing world - personal assessment
  • What do I hope to achieve?
  • How will I achieve it?
  • What has changed in work and life?
  • What other changes can we expect?
  • How do we manage this?
  • What are the implications for me and others?
  • Balancing life and work

Why Time Matters and How Your Use of Time Affects Others

  • How am I using my time?
  • What are my time wasters?
  • Time logging
  • Why do I put things off?
  • Ways that other people use time
  • Timelines - how do I view time?
  • How does my use of time affect others?

Work Planning and Project Management

  • Work management methods diagnostic
  • Pressures on work plans - time, quality, cost
  • The planning process
  • Planning work in progress
  • Analyzing and managing risk
  • Contingency planning
  • Problem-solving techniques

Practical Techniques for Managing Time Wasters

  • Managing paperwork, real and virtual
  • Managing travel
  • Managing meetings
  • Making the best use of the phone.
  • Using the diary - the key time management tool.
  • Managing Interruptions

Making It All Work

  • Work planning practical
  • Debrief
  • Testing your plan
  • Analyzing your strengths and needs
  • Developing your development plan

Current Status of Setting Goals, Planning, and Decision Making

  • Overview and context of organizational change and the impact on goals, planning and decision making
  • Understanding of the current status of the organization, team and personal work
  • Review of management processes and skill areas
  • Using a planning process to set goals and get work started

Importance of Goal Setting and Planning Management

  • Integrating goals, scope, work structure and management planning
  • Identifying initial resource requirements
  • Identifying risk techniques that affect work assignments, priorities, and deadlines
  • Communication that responds to who, what where, when, how, why
  • Understanding the importance of quality planning in work assignments

Setting Priorities and Making Decisions in the Planning Process

  • Using planning to ensure task priorities are established
  • Planning for time management, scheduling and meeting deadlines
  • Integrating the functions into a final work plan
  • Improving communications and listening skills
  • Planning for delegation responsibility and authority
  • Techniques for making good decisions

Working with Your Team

  • Identifying the skills required to obtain the help of others
  • The importance of group skills to achieve team success
  • The importance of interpersonal skills in making personal and team decisions
  • Empowering the team through delegation and decision making
  • The importance of effective communication in team relations

Developing Personal and Team Change Action Plans

  • Innovation and improvement for personal and team change
  • Identification of change processes and human change
  • Techniques to set personal and team change goals
  • Dealing with people who do not want to change
  • Developing an action plan for personal and team change

Requirements

 21 Hours

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