
Certified Office Manager (COM)
30/10/2024
Management Skills for Administrative Professionals
30/10/2024Time Management and Personal Effectiveness
£4,000.00
Category: Administration and Secretarial
Overview:
This course equips professionals with essential time management skills to enhance productivity, manage priorities, and reduce stress. Participants will explore techniques for prioritizing tasks, handling information flow, and balancing professional and personal responsibilities. Attendees will leave with practical tools to improve their organization, creative thinking abilities, and personal effectiveness.
Program Objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Implement time management principles to boost productivity.
- Prioritize tasks, handle interruptions, and maintain focus.
- Use planning, delegation, and stress management for effectiveness.
- Optimize teamwork through effective communication and organization.
- Develop self-motivation and strategies for continuous improvement.
Target Audience:
Ideal for professionals aiming to enhance time management, reduce stress, increase productivity, and achieve a better work-life balance.
Program Outline:
Day 1: Foundations of Time Management & Personal Effectiveness
- Introduction to Time Management.
- Course objectives and personal action planning.
- Key principles of effective time management and goal setting.
- Identifying personal and organizational time-wasters.
- Improving Personal and Team Effectiveness.
- Developing chronistic intelligence for time perception.
- Setting rational and emotional priorities to optimize workflow.
- Behavior analysis and managing time-stealers.
Day 2: Personal Planning and Managing Interruptions
- Effective Planning Techniques.
- Best practices for using diaries, to-do lists, and planning tools.
- Creating time-based plans (daily, weekly, monthly).
- Handling Interruptions and Stress.
- Strategies to develop a time-sensitive work culture.
- Basics of Critical Path Analysis and priority-setting.
- Understanding stress triggers and techniques for managing stress and change.
Day 3: Enhancing Communication and Meeting Skills
- Delegation and Teamwork.
- Techniques for confident delegation and tracking.
- Building teamwork and improving communication within teams.
- Effective Meetings.
- Tips for running productive and goal-oriented meetings.
- Assertiveness training for managing meetings and discussions effectively.
Day 4: Office Organization and Information Management
- Optimizing the Office Environment.
- Ergonomic principles for maximizing workspace efficiency.
- Developing paperless systems and managing digital information.
- Efficient Writing and Reading Skills.
- Business writing techniques for rapid and clear communication.
- Speed-reading and mind-mapping to enhance information retention.
Day 5: Creativity, Improvement, and Self-Development
- Fostering Creativity and Continuous Improvement.
- Techniques for creative thinking and problem-solving.
- Implementing a culture of continuous improvement.
- Self-Development and Professional Growth.
- Building influential communication and persuasion skills.
- Developing a personal growth plan and reviewing key takeaways from the course.