Personal Productivity

personal-productivity

Who Would Benefit from this course

Managers and employees who have a busy workload.  This workshop will show participants how to organize their lives and find those hidden moments. Participants will learn how to establish routines, set goals, create an efficient environment and use time-honoured planning and organizational tools to maximize their personal productivity.

Course Objectives

  • Set and evaluate SMART goals
  • Use routines to maximize your productivity
  • Use scheduling tools to make the most of your time
  • Stay on top of your to-do list
  • Start new tasks and projects on the right foot
  • Use basic project management techniques
  • Organize your physical and virtual workspaces efficiently
  • Take back time from e-mail and handheld devices
  • Overcome procrastination

Benefit for You

You will learn how to set meaningful goals, plan your time wisely and to use computer systems to maximum benefit.  How to schedule your life, arrange all tasks in a structured way and how to plan for larger projects.  Your work life will be more efficient and productive.  You will feel a greater sense of achievement and satisfaction through completing your work in an efficient way.

Benefit for Your Company

The company will have a more efficient and productive employee.  The employee’s resultant output and productivity is greatly improved and enhanced through the valuable skills and planning tools presented in this course.

Course Duration

2 day Level 1 course.

Programme Content

  • Setting SMART Goals
  • The Three P’s
  • Prioritizing Your Goals
  • The Power of Routines
  • Personal Routines, Professional Routines
  • Scheduling Yourself
  • The Simple Secret of Successful Time Management
  • Developing a Tracking System
  • Scheduling Appointments
  • Scheduling Tasks
  • The One-Minute Rule, The Five-Minute Rule
  • Tackling New Tasks and Projects
  • Using Project Management Techniques
  • Creating the Schedule
  • Creating a Workspace, and Physical Layout
  • Using Your Computer Efficiently
  • Organizing Files and Folders
  • Organizing Paper Files, and Electronic Files
  • Archive and Clean-Up of files
  • Managing E-Mail, & making the Most of Your E-mail Program
  • Tackling Procrastination