Time & Priority Management
- Introductions
- My biggest time wasters
- Game: Dealing with competing interests; uncover why we don’t manage time well
- Setting Priorities: Determining What is Important
- Stephen Covey’s Quadrants
- Values: Are they aligned with my activities?
- Developing a strategy for prioritization
- Managing My Biggest Time Wasters
- Clutter versus organization (how much is okay?)
- Managing incoming communication
- Decision making tools
- When people barge in: The solution is simple!
- Procrastination
- Identifying causes
- Overcoming the procrastination urge
- Three words to fight procrastination
- Creating a plan to move forward
- Creative Planning
- The eight-step planning process
- A planning system that works for you
- Planning and not “doing” exercise
- Creative problem solving and decision making
- Managing Meetings effectively
- Why have a meeting?
- Setting agenda and participant expectations
- Causes for meeting disruptions
- The roles that add value to a meeting
- Getting folks here on time!
- Three ways to evaluate a meeting
- Wrap Up
- Alleviating stress from that “outacontrol” feeling
- Creating an action plan
