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Time Management: Increasing Workplace Productivity
How to stop procrastinating and become more efficient
Created byNina Sunday
Last updated 11/2017
English
What you'll learn
- Apply various methods to decide between competing priorities
- Gain clarity about the next most important thing to do
- Have systems to handle to-dos, appointments, file notes and meetings
- Record every to-do and use task tracking so the mind can relax
- Understand the difference between a project and an action-step
- Eliminate procrastination by describing to-dos in action steps
- Appreciate the difference between important and urgent items
- Shorten a phone call, while remaining courteous
- Analyse workflow and identify if holding onto a task creates a bottleneck
- Feel okay about what cannot get done in a day, or delegate
- View delegating as an investment in developing staff
- Set time limits on activities
- Do all of one type of activity in time blocks e.g. all phone calls; all e-mails
- Avoid ‘grasshopper behaviour’ – jumping form task to task
- Concentrate effort on top 20% of priorities, which yields an 80% result
- Identify the one thing you are not doing now, that if you did do, would enhance your sense of happiness, achievement, contribution, and health and fitness
- Understand the impact of negative and positive self-talk
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Course content
1 section • 9 lectures • 41m total length
Requirements
- This workshop assumes working in an office environment balancing multiple tasks requiring prioritisation.
Description
From chaos to control - Learn how to work smarter and get more of the right things done, with less stress.
In this Time management online program, Nina Sunday informs, inspires and motivates you to take immediate positive steps to implement best practice time management. Includes exercises to identify the practical action steps needed to make it happen.
Here are some of the things you will learn:
Managing tasks, priorities and interruptions
- Overchoice – the overwhelming number of options available to fill our time
- How to confidently handle competing priorities under pressure
- Overcoming feelings of being overwhelmed and 'mind churn'
- Using a to-do or task list to focus on the 'next most important thing to do'
- The art of stress-free productivity and putting first things first
- Identifying important vs. urgent
- Managing interruptions and not switching from task to task
Efficiency In The Office
- Time Management tools (paper-based or digital): diary, daybook
- Managing paper with a tickler file
- Embracing delegation as a Leadership skill
- Doing it faster – adequate vs. perfect
Managing Stress
- Work/life balance – making time for health, personal achievement, contribution and happiness.
- Using positive, not negative, language, which frames how we view things
Don't just take our word for it.
'The training video worked well. It's well-produced and had a positive effect on time management and personal productivity.
The touch of humour and levity maintained interest, and was better than a presenter being too solemn or earnest.'
John Craig, HR Director, Newington College
Lectures:
- Overchoice
- Top six method
- To-do list
- Deciding priorities, Important vs. urgent, 80 / 20 rule
- Power of focus
- Embrace delegation as part of your job
- Do it faster - adequate vs. perfect
- Work / life balance
- Positive Language
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who complains they have too much to do in too little time
- Anyone who lies awake at night, mind churning about all their to-dos
- Anyone who's confused by competing priorities or feels overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work they have to do
- Anyone who procrastinates or misses deadlines
- Anyone who has to balance tasks and manage competing priorities