Juggling
Competing Priorities
This three-day course is designed to ensure
that the participants come away with enhanced personal management skills
and an action plan for using time most wisely. The work is highly
focused on skill development and competency, emotional intelligence and
planning process to manage priorities. The course contains intensive
self-assessment and role playing.
1. Meeting the Challenge of
Time
- Feedback from Quality Use of Time Profile
- Determining Life Priorities - Business, Career,
Other
- Setting Realistic Priorities
- Establishing Professional Priorities
- Goal-Setting Techniques - Mechanisms of
Organization
- Attitude and Prioritization
- Recording Priorities
2. Priority Management System --
The Technical Skills
- Planning and Executing Strategies that Measure
Results
- Preparing Long-Range/Short-Range Projects in a
Group
- Exploring How to Balance Planning Efforts with
Day-to-Day Demands
- Reviewing Techniques for Planning and
Coordinating Across Departments
- Model of Setting Priorities - The Covey Quadrant
- Understanding Basic Project Management
- Several Planning Tools that Highlight
Priorities
3. Priority Management System --
The Interpersonal Skills
- Understanding How Communication Skills Affect
Priority Management
- How to Empower Others
- How to Delegate Work to Others
- Conflict Resolution Model
- Negotiating Priorities with Your Boss and
Co-Workers
4. Making the Most of Your
Meetings
- Benefits of Meetings
- How to Mine Group Gold: Proficiency at Running
Meetings
- Becoming a More Effective Meeting Participant
- How to Conduct and Evaluate Meetings
5. Implementing Stress reduction
- Managing Stress
- Identifying and Dealing with Job Stressors
- Problem-Solving
- Support Systems for Managing Stress
- Assertiveness as a Priorities Management a Tool
6. Practice Session
- Case Studies
- Action Plan for the Future
