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Title: Managing Multiple Priorities
Class Date: January 21, 2011
Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Instructor: Debra A. Smith
Location: One Highland Center, 314 E. Highland Mall Blvd., Suite 403, Austin, TX 78752
Price: $225
Early Bird Discount: $199 if you register by December 21, 2010.
How will you benefit from this seminar?
Do you often find everything on your to-do list a top priority? Are you struggling to manage an unmanageable workload? Do you find crises erupting and priorities constantly changing throughout the day and yourself scrambling to deal with them? Do you leave work at the end of the day feeling exhausted and frustrated? If so, this seminar is for you!
At “Managing Multiple Priorities” you’ll be introduced to proven techniques, guidelines, and strategies for staying on top of competing priorities and conflicting projects. You’ll be able to plan with a mission, separate important activities from the merely urgent, complete the tasks that must get done, and get organized faster. You’ll protect your priorities from unnecessary interruptions, manage meetings better, tame your “paper tiger,” and overcome procrastination. You’ll gain confidence in decision making, set limits by delegating and saying no, and commit to bringing more balance into your life. The end result will be accomplishing more with better results and less stress.
In this one-day, information-packed workshop you’ll learn:
Overcome the reluctance to plan
Use the 80/20 rule and the priority matrix to prioritize your activities
Maximize your prime times and down times
Reduce interruptions and maintain control of your time
Zip through paperwork and curtail unproductive meetings
Beat procrastination once and for all
Delegate and ask for help
Set limits and say no (and still keep your job and your friends)
Manage multiple priorities and bosses
Reduce stress and anxiety and get more done
Course Outline:
Understanding the Relationship Between Self-Management and Priority Management
The most popular priority management problems
Identifying your personal productivity killers
How the 80/20 rule can help you organize and manage your priorities
The four basic questions to help you manage time
The 30-day commitment for changing habits
Planning—The Key to Managing Priorities
A quick way for determining how much time to allow for planning
6 major planning obstacles and how to overcome them
How to cope with the important vs. urgent dilemma
The 4 categories for putting your priorities in order
Why you need to ask the “Lakein Question” several times a day
Knowing and using prime time for tackling your most challenging priorities
How to turn down time into your most productive time
The 15 most important minutes of any day and how to use them
3 essential planning tools for greater productivity
10 ways to create a manageable daily action list
Protecting Your Priorities From Others
The productivity killer that happens every eight minutes
5 strategies for managing interruptions from drop-in visitors
Time-limiting methods for dealing with co-worker interruptions
How to deal with the interrupting boss or bosses
The 3 little words that can eat up your time and how to respond to them
Telephone and e-mail interruptions—are you managing them or are they managing you?
Meetings—tips on taming and chairing the “necessary evil”
The tool for ensuring productive, successful meetings that prompt decisions and actions
Enhancing Your Productivity
10 ways to reduce, control, and eliminate paper
How to unstack the desk and unpile the floor
Selective reading—how to reduce your reading time and control paperwork
The most effective filing system to have and how to create it
Procrastination—the #1 killer of productivity
Guarantees to permanently end the urge to put it off
Decision vs. indecision—developing a bias for action
How to save time through effective delegation (even when you don’t supervise)
What you should delegate and what you should do yourself
The self-overload condition—are you trying to do too much?
5 steps for setting limits and saying “no” successfully
Balancing Your Priorities
How to apply goal setting to priority management
The balance wheel—where do you see yourself?
Dealing with the balance detractors of stress and worry
Approaches for building and maintaining energy and balance
Instructor Bio: Debra A. Smith
Debra Smith's program specialties include communications, time management, stress management, conflict management, teamwork, and customer relations. Drawing on a store of practical business knowledge, anecdotes, and examples gleaned from her years of personal experience, Debra inspires, encourages, and coaches more than 20,000 people a year through her seminars and workshops. She has helped hundreds of organizations increase productivity and develop a more committed, cohesive workforce.
Debra holds a M.B.A. degree in management from Golden Gate University. She is the author of three books—How to Create High-Impact Letters, Memos, and E-Mail, How to Create High-Impact Reports and Proposals, and Powerful Proofreading Skills—as well as the audio and videotape programs Professional Telephone Skills, Powerful Presentation Skills, and Proofreading and Editing Skills. Several of her programs have been syndicated internationally.
CPE: 8 hours
TX Board of Public Accountancy Sponsor Number: 009317
Cancellation Information: Cancellation Date: December 31, 2010
To cancel your registration from this course, please call or email the course
contact listed below. If a cancellation is received after the cancellation
date, the registrant will be charged $75 for course materials.
If you are making travel plans to come to the training, please make "refundable" air and hotel reservations or wait until 14 days before the class to actually book your reservations. Courses are occasionally canceled or rescheduled due to low enrollment. We determine whether a course has enough participants approximately 16 days prior to the course date. If we cancel or reschedule, we will email the participant no later than 14 days before the original class date. Solutions Training will not pay for cancellation/change fees associated with travel and hotel arrangement changes.
Class participants will
be billed after the class. Payment should be made to SOLUTIONS TRAINING GROUP,
Federal Tax ID: 20-2732184 and mailed to 2701 Maria Anna Rd, Austin, TX 78703.
If you have any questions, please contact Shannon Bieberdorf at (512) 914-5557
shannon@solutionstraininggroup.com. For
additional information about this class, please contact Laurie Garrant at laurie@solutionstraininggroup.com,
(512) 914-5567.
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