Effective Time Management

Global Knowledge - United States
Arlington, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Morristown, New York City, San Jose, United States

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' Project Managers are asked to do more with less faster than ever before. In this short course, you’ll learn techniques to help you avoid spending your day in a whirlwind of activity that leaves you exhausted, yet with very little accomplished. You’ll learn how to manage priorities, organize your activities, execute without delay, and take back control of your day.

What You’ll Learn


How to focus
Discover your real priorities
Set goals related to those priorities
Track your progress
Key stress management techniques
Return productivity and efficiency to your day
Course Outline


1. Is there really anything new?
Dr. Samuel Johnson: People "more frequently require to be reminded than informed."
2. Can you really keep up?
3. Dealing with procrastination - Do it now!
"The now habit"
4. Conflicting advice - why so many choices?
5. How to discover your real priorities
6. How to make time for your priorities
ABC analysis
Pareto analysis
Fit
7. How to set goals - self management
8. Tools and techniques for planning and scheduling time
9. Tracking techniques - activity logs
10. Ignore the noise!
How to manage your e-mail
Empty your Inbox or keep the count near zero
It’s all about three folders: Action, Archive, and Hold
Telephone techniques
One-on-one encounters
Step away from the computer!
Focus on the present
Pay attention! (Ignore all the beeps and blats)
11. To-do lists that work! (task list vs. priority list)
Getting things done - the four criteria model
12. Setting deadlines
13. Purge, simplify, and organize
14. Dealing with change
15. How to deal with interruptions
16. How to carve out your "me time"
17. How to say "no" and still live to work another day
18. Delegation techniques
19. How to "decompose" your work into achievable, actionable byte-sized pieces (action plans)
20. Understanding when you are at your best
21. When to use technology and when not to
22. How to work with other people to achieve common goals
23. Set aside time for. nothing (catching the brain-rain)
24. Get enough: sleep, exercise, food, rest, play (It’s all about balance!)
25. Overwork (burnout bound!)
It’s lunch time - Leave your (neat and tidy) desk behind!
This is a virtual short course, specially designed to give you a quick, convenient way to earn PMI PDUs or concentrate on a specialized topic. This course is also part of our PMP Renewal Subscription program
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Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

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9000 Regency Parkway, Suite 500
Cary, North Carolina 27518 USA

Jobs & Resumes: Arlington, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Morristown, New York City, San Jose
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