What you'll learn
- Audit how you currently spend your time and identify areas for improvement.
- Set SMART goals and evaluate goals against the SMART criteria.
- Say “No” gracefully and effectively so you can stay focused on your goals.
- Describe a five-step process for effectively delegating the right tasks to the right people.
- Implement multiple techniques for minimizing interruptions.
- Keep meetings moving by sending an agenda ahead of time and using a parking lot during the meeting.
- Determine how to handle seven different disruptive personality types to keep meetings on track.
- Describe the importance of email folders and list four recommended folders everyone needs to help them declutter.
Requirements
- No Prerequisites
Description
Take Control of How You Spend Your Time
You can improve the way you use time. You can avoid patterns and habits that make it difficult for you to get things done. Benjamin Franklin said, “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
Stop Allowing Outside Influences To Control Your Decisions!
Have you ever wondered what sets truly successful people apart from the crowd? Study the lives of high achievers everywhere and you will recognize one common characteristic: they make good use of their time. If you think you are too busy to take this course, you probably need it most. That’s because time is one of the few things that is equal for everyone: there are 24 hours in a day, and how you use them makes all the difference.
Learn To Get Stuff Done
Do you complete tasks at the last minute? Do you often ask for extensions? Do you think you don’t have time to get everything done? Then this course is for you.
Take Control Of Your Life
· Stop being perceived as flaky, unreliable, consistently inconsistent
· Appropriately manage expectations – set yourself up to succeed
· Take control of your life by managing interruptions
Who this course is for:
- Anyone looking to improve their time management.
Course content
- Preview03:58
- Preview05:22
- Preview06:17
- 05:06Saying "No" Without Guilt
- 06:05Setting Priorities
- 06:58Multitasking
- 05:27Overcoming Procrastination
- 06:09Delegating the Right Tasks
- 06:28Handling Interruptions
- 04:18Conducting Effective Meetings
- 09:02Handling Disruptive Attendees
- 06:15Decluttering Your Email
Instructor
![Chip Reaves](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 20,249 Reviews
- 93,956 Students
- 97 Courses
Bigger Brains Founder and President Chip Reaves is a serial entrepreneur who has started five successful companies. An Atlanta native, Chip began fixing computers for small businesses in the 1980's while studying Computer Science at Georgia Tech. After 10 years building a successful IT Service Practice in Atlanta, Chip founded the Computer Troubleshooters franchise system alongside Wilson & Suzanne McOrist, which became the world's largest computer service franchise and received multiple awards from Entrepreneur Magazine, Franchise Business Review, and AllBusiness.
Chip has been interviewed on TV and other major media on topics related to small business technology and entrepreneurship, including ABC News, BusinessWeek TV, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, and is a member of Jim Blasingame's "Brain Trust" on SmallBusinessAdvocate. In 2010 Chip was listed among the Top 150 most influential people in small business IT by SMB PC magazine.
Chip lives with his wife Maren and step-daughter Meg in Anderson, South Carolina where they also co-own a Computer Troubleshooters franchise location. In his spare time Chip is very active with his church and local charities, and consults with two aid organizations serving Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa.