Course Outline
Effective Time, Task & Work Planning
- Navigating our changing world - personal assessment
- Defining personal achievements
- Strategies for achieving goals
- Changes in work and life contexts
- Anticipating future changes
- Managing adaptation
- Implications for individuals and teams
- Balancing life and professional responsibilities
The Importance of Time and Its Impact on Others
- Assessing personal time usage
- Identifying time wasters
- Time logging techniques
- Understanding procrastination
- Recognizing different time management styles of others
- Perceptions of time and timelines
- How personal time usage affects colleagues
Work Planning and Project Management
- Diagnostics of work management methods
- Managing pressures: time, quality, and cost
- The planning process
- Planning for ongoing work
- Analyzing and mitigating risk
- Contingency planning
- Problem-solving techniques
Practical Techniques for Minimizing Time Wasters
- Managing physical and virtual paperwork
- Efficient travel management
- Effective meeting management
- Optimizing phone usage
- Leveraging diaries as key time management tools
- Handling interruptions effectively
Integrating Strategies for Success
- Practical work planning exercise
- Post-session debrief
- Testing and refining plans
- Analyzing personal strengths and areas for improvement
- Creating individual development plans
Current Status of Goal Setting, Planning, and Decision Making
- Overview of organizational change and its impact on goals, planning, and decisions
- Assessing the current state of the organization, team, and individual work
- Reviewing management processes and skill gaps
- Using planning processes to set goals and initiate work
The Critical Role of Goal Setting and Planning Management
- Integrating goals, scope, work structure, and management planning
- Identifying initial resource requirements
- Recognizing risk factors affecting work assignments, priorities, and deadlines
- Communicating effectively: who, what, where, when, how, why
- Understanding the importance of quality planning in work assignments
Setting Priorities and Making Decisions in Planning
- Using planning to establish task priorities
- Planning for time management, scheduling, and deadline adherence
- Integrating functions into a final work plan
- Enhancing communication and listening skills
- Planning for delegation, responsibility, and authority
- Techniques for effective decision-making
Collaborating with Your Team
- Identifying skills needed to gain support from others
- The importance of group dynamics for team success
- The role of interpersonal skills in personal and team decisions
- Empowering teams through delegation and shared decision-making
- The importance of effective communication in team relationships
Developing Personal and Team Change Action Plans
- Innovation and improvement for personal and team transformation
- Understanding change processes and human adaptation
- Techniques for setting personal and team change goals
- Strategies for working with resistant individuals
- Creating actionable plans for personal and team change
Testimonials (4)
Provided and explained very clearly a lot of foundational concepts, which fit well with the team's level of learning. The exercises were very engaging and I believe my team were comfortable and participated very well. Coordinating with the trainer as well was very seamless.
Christlan Tolentino - Canadian Blood Services
Course - Critical Thinking
I especially appreciated the instructor’s ability to give thorough, well-explained answers to questions specific to my personal situation.
HASAN TAHA URLU - Huber Turkiye
Course - Assertiveness
the exercises and the way the trainer was explaining
Sorana Haiduc - Ness
Course - Stress Management and Prevention
1. Methodology 2. Its structure and usability 3. Real, practical examples and excercises
