Time Management

Course Number:  043-GO
Recommended Duration:  ½ Day

Intended Audience:  All Employees

Course Overview
These time and resource management modules help individuals to identify areas where they have the opportunity to improve and to apply effective tools and techniques to better manage their time and resources.

Objectives
As a result of taking this course, you will learn to:

• Identify personal values and organizational goals to develop a strategy to accomplish goals within a value framework
• Prioritize and organize tasks within the value framework to accomplish set goals
• Use aids such as: calendars, electronic media, and other tools to organize tasks and priorities
• Identify external priorities and obstacles and how to manage them

Prerequisites:  None

Topics

• Knowing yourself first

• Identifying your values, goals, and personal style

• Identifying your most productive times

• Prioritizing personal needs

• Managing tasks and times to accomplish goals

• How to plan: “failing to plan is planning to fail”

• Establishing goals and relating your tasks to them

• Prioritizing and organizing for effective time management

• Using calendars, software, and other aids

• Keeping records, folders, and taking notes

• Dealing with roadblocks to success

• Procrastination, interruptions, and lack of focus

• Managing resources to fit into the master plan

• Determine whose priorities take precedence

• Use of delegation skills

• Personal action planning to better organize time and resources