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Who will benefit:
Any employee who wishes to take more control of their workload (and reduce
any associated stress); by organising tasks, people and themselves more
effectively
Objectives:
By the
end of this course you will be able to:
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Clarify
objectives, key results areas and priorities.
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Understand
their own thinking on the balance between “work” and “non-work”.
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Understand
and use effective time management strategies.
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Develop a
personal (or team) “resource planning approach”
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Identify and
minimise sources of “time-wasting”.
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Use effective
delegation and task clarification as an approach.
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Make effective
use of online tools e.g. MS Outlook or paper-based equivalents.
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Learn
effective thinking strategies and practical techniques for managing
their personal stress.
Content:
(We
customise and structure
the content to your organisation's specific needs)
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What does
“Personal Management” mean?
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Where am I
right now?
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Setting my
Personal Management goals - How would I like it to be?
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What’s my
current level of stress?
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Creating your
personal mission, covering “work” and “non-work” areas.
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Defining your
objectives, key results areas and priorities.
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Testing
whether your objectives are SMART?
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Establishing a
hierarchy of responsibilities and priorities.
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Personal
resource planning – “saying yes, but not yet or yes and instead of
what?”
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Planning
forwards.
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Playing the
“short game” and the “long game”.
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Dealing with
conflicting priorities.
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Identifying
and minimising time-wasters.
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Dealing with
interruptions and distractions.
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How to develop
real focus and achieve “flow”.
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The benefits
and challenges of delegation.
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How to
delegate effectively.
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How to receive
tasks effectively – asking good clarification questions.
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Using diaries,
to-do lists and notepads.
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Using MS
Outlook (if appropriate).
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Benchmarking
against the “well organised”.
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Defining
stress.
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How much
stress is healthy?
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Short and long
term impacts of stress.
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Review of
beliefs generating stress.
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Designing more
empowering beliefs.
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Analysing my
stress factors – what’s in my control vs. outside my control.
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Accepting
things beyond my control.
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Taking action
to change things in my control.
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Stress
reduction techniques – immediate usable techniques and longer term
approaches.
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Personal
action planning.
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Personal management
"There is one quality
that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the
knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to achieve it"
(Napoleon Hill)
More
Information: If you want to know more
about this course or its suitability for you or a colleague, call us on
020 8374 3985 and speak informally to one of our course leaders,
or email:
info@shiftingminds.com
Training Style:
Interactive, enjoyable and thought provoking. The workshop uses inputs
from the course leader, group and individual exercises, case studies,
psychometrics and discussions. |
