This comprehensive 10-day Coventry Academy training course will transform the way you think about and manage yourself and your time, organise and prioritise your work and life tasks, as well as manage and lead the people you work with. These skills will develop more efficient and motivated individuals and teams, enabling increased outputs and productivity in any business area.
Businesses and organisations need to find more productive and innovative methods of planning, creating and achieving results, as well as tools for communicating, decision making and making the best of use everyone's precious time and energy. This training course focuses on practical methodologies and as well as leading edge personal development strategies to allow you and your team to move to the next level of achievement and satisfaction at work.
What are the goals?
By attending this Anderson training course, delegates will be able to:
Understand and develop the skills necessary to plan, set smart goals and reach deadlines without stress
Utilise a variety of methods to improve decision making, problem solving and creative thinking
Identify tasks that can be eliminated, prioritised, or delegated and become a master time and task manager
Analyse situations that hinder performance and identify techniques to overcome them
Develop the Interpersonal and emotional intelligence to create better team work and relationships
Who is this training course for?
This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to wide range of professionals, but will greatly benefit:
Anyone who desires to learn practical management techniques that will assist them in making good decisions, setting personal and team goals and develop personal and team plans
Line and functional Managers, Team Leaders and Supervisors in organisations of all sizes
Intermediate and advanced level Managers, Team Leaders and Supervisors within all sectors, private and public, profit and not-for-profit
Professionals who needs to become more effective and efficient in time management and planning
Course Outline
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
The certificate
Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course