Advanced Time Management - Essential Skills for ALL EAs

 

Outline

This workshop is designed to introduce you to very powerful time management processes and practices that will assist you in considering how you currently set your priorities, how you might manage competing priorities and in turn impact upon your utilisation of time.

Time management is really about self-management and self-leadership.   The question then is how well are we managing ourselves?   If time seems to be out of our control then the first thing we need to do is analyse how we spend our time at work.

Throughout this workshop you will have an opportunity to analyse your habitual time management behaviours.   As you do, you will become more aware of what your time management habits are and whether they assist or hinder you.   There will also be a common thread which incorporates a greater understanding of time management for ‘me', ‘we' and ‘us'!


Who Should Attend?

 

ALL Executive and Personal Assistants who need to manage their time more effectively and master it to enhance their performance and achieve their goals.

 

  • Are you struggling to cope with unread or unanswered e-mails?
  • Do projects frequently take longer than you anticipated?
  • Do your high standards make it tough for you to 'let go'?
  • Do constant interruptions make it hard for you to get anything done?
  • Do you have trouble saying 'no' to requests, even when you don't have time to do what's being asked of you?

 

 This interactive workshop provides practical tools and techniques to increase your productivity and reduce stress.

 


Course Objectives

By the end of this highly interactive program, you will be able to:

 

  •       Identify time wasters and non-essential tasks and learn how to control them instead of being controlled
  •    Identify time-stealers and respond to them
  •    Identify your values and their impact on time management
  •    Deal with stress and meet your deadlines
  •    Prioritise your actions and achieve results
  •    Break the "procrastination cycle".
  •    Identify and set workload priorities including scheduling time for maintenance tasks
  •    Improve your ability to focus on high priority tasks and understand the difference between "important" and "urgent"
  •    Create your personal "time management system"
  •    Establish short, medium, and long term goals
  •    Successfully manage telephone and email time
  •   Meeting tips and suggestions to save you time and ensure you get to the point quickly
  •   Manage interruptions and learn the art of managing up

 


Course Content

Make a diagnostic of your Personal Time Management Style

  • Identifying your individual time management style
  • Defining your priority tasks
  • Identifying your "time-stealers"
  • Being aware of your own discipline of work and your organisational method

Deal with your Time and Priorities

  • Distinguishing urgent from important
  • Identifying your personal values, your bosses’ values and the organisation’s values
  • Organising your tasks by priorities
  • Setting realistic objectives

 Optimise your Organisational Skills

  • A more accurate perception of time
  • Dealing effectively with your workload
  • Dealing with unexpected problems and issues

Manage your Stress

  • Understanding the impact of stress in your time management
  • Identifying the source of stress
  • Applying clear, concise and effective solutions to combat stress in order to gain time
  • Manage interruptions and the art of managing up

 

Your Workshop Presenter

Katrena Friel

Principal Consultant, Learning and Development

 

Katrena Friel is one of the brightest minds in training, coaching and corporate consulting today.

She incorporates three key aspects being life-transforming skills, training and professional development programs as well as professional coaching and mentoring.   She specialises in personal development. Her sound knowledge of business, plus her ability to put ideas into action through planning, training and development ensures her client's success.

For over 20 years, she has contributed to the success of thousands of companies in most industries, consulted to hundreds of entrepreneurs and guided thousands of individuals - inspiring them to their next level of development.   She holds formal qualifications in Business, Management, Advertising, PR and Marketing and is a Master Practitioner and Train the Trainer of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Progamming).

Katrena's life purpose is to cultivate solutions that develop creativity, leadership and communication skills for a leap frog effect in people's lives.

 

 

Duration

Three Hour Workshop

 

Price

EAN Members: $445.00 + GST

EAN Associate Members & Non-Members: $595.00 + GST

 

Please contact Katrena Friel at BSI Learning on 02 9215 0196 to discuss your program needs 

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