Module 1: Effective Time, Task & Work Planning
Day One: Getting Organised with Your Time, Tasks and Office Systems
- Assess your productivity and identify areas for improvement
- Activity logs, effective to-do lists and action programs
- Managing your workflow, files, emails and office effectively
- Prioritising events using the urgent/important matrix
- Using leverage to get a greater return from your effort
Day Two: Achieving Results through Planning, Prioritizing and Delegation
- Multiple applications for Mind mapping, and creating your first one
- Utilising Gantt charts for sequencing events in project work
- Effective scheduling – planning to make the best use of your time
- Goal setting and meeting multiple deadlines
- Assessing your delegating skills and improving effectiveness
Day Three: Overcoming Challenges in Time, Task, Work Planning
- Managing interruptions and minimizing distractions
- Dealing with late, disorganized or difficult people
- Managing conflicting priorities and last-minute changes
- Understand procrastination and develop strategies to overcome it
- Running productive team meetings and making group decisions
Day Four: Achieving Results through Collaboration
- Leading teams and improving their effectiveness
- Develop vital, effective communication skills
- Applying Emotional Intelligence to improve relationships
- The art of concise clear conversations
- Listening and giving feedback
Day Five: Successful Self-Management
- How to energise and motivate yourself
- Managing your stress and achieving work-life balance
- Improving your concentration and focus
- Increasing self-discipline, breaking bad habits and negative behaviours
- The effective habits of a good time task manager
Module 2: Goal Setting, Planning & Decision Making
Day Six: Create Goals That Actually Get Done
- Macro and Micro Thinking: Getting clear about your purpose, vision, mission, values, goals and tasks and activities
- The power of visioning and visualisation in setting and achieving goals
- Harnessing the power of the subconscious mind, beliefs, attitudes and habits in goal setting
- SMART Goals, HARD Goals or BHAG Goals, which one is right for you and your team
- Strategic, Tactical and Operational Goal Setting in the Organisation
- Management by Objectives – the pros and cons
Day Seven: Achieving Results through the Power of Planning
- The many benefits of planning
- Using mind-mapping for creative and logical thinking and project planning
- Best practices and technologies for project planning and communication
- Traditional planning vs new workplace planning
- Single use plans, standing plans, contingency and crisis plans
- Daily, short-term, midterm and long-term planning
Day Eight: Getting things Done – Time and Task Management
- Working smarter rather than harder through leveraging your time
- Curing ‘last-minute-itis’ and creating good daily work habits
- Prioritising, organizing and scheduling your work
- Time Management secrets to adopt and time wasters to avoid
- The 10 natural laws of successful time management
- Best time management tools and technologies available
Day Nine: Decision Making – Tools, Techniques and Psychology
- The art and science of good decisions
- Personality types and how they decide – strengths and weaknesses
- Best traits of an effective decision maker
- Decision making pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Logical and intuitive decision-making tools
- Creativity and problem-solving tools
Day Ten: Leadership and Communication at Work
- Empowered delegation – balancing task and team
- Leadership styles for the new work place
- Leading a team through times of change
- Inspiring others – the art of persuasive presentations
- Communication and emotional intelligence at work
- Summary and action planning from the week’s course
