Priority Setting and Organizing Your Time

(One-day Workshop)

YOU WILL LEARN TO:

• Prioritize your workload proactively with “SMART” planning
• Clarify priorities with others assertively and diplomatically
• Increase work efficiency and eliminate feeling overwhelmed
• Make better decisions about resolving conflicting priorities on your own
• Use all sides of your brain to organize tasks and projects more efficiently
• Make the distractions of paper and technology work to your advantage
• Transform the stress related to organizing and prioritizing your workload into more positive results

COURSE OUTLINE

Evaluating Your Workload: Too much to do and not enough time!

• The challenge of needing to get it all done
• Barriers to efficiency and opportunities for enhanced productivity
• Self-assessment of your positive and negative work habits
• Eight ways to eliminate feeling overwhelmed and increase your work efficiency

Working “SMART”: Planning proactively

• Why smart planning is advantageous
• Setting goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and activated
• Working smarter: applying the “SMART” principle to your tasks and projects
• Completing your “SMART” action plan

Handling Priorities with Ease

• The reality of multiple and conflicting priorities
• Five tips for making better decisions on your own when it is necessary
• Four techniques for clarifying conflicting priorities with others assertively and diplomatically
• Completing your priority action plan

Making Paperwork and Technology Work for You

• Using all three sides of your brain: organizing to the fullest
• Four techniques for organizing paperwork more efficiently
• Three ways to use technology to your advantage
• Completing your organizing action plan

Taking the Stress Out of Organizing and Prioritizing

• Identifying key stressors
• Transforming “stressed” into “desserts”
• Three stress reduction techniques that make a difference
• Completing your stress reduction action plan

This workshop uses a licensed tool Time Management Self-description Inventory that costs about $15 per participant.

Prerequisite: Participants will complete a priority setting and organizing pre-assessment form.

For information regarding this course, please contact:

Colin Watson
Relationship Manager
J Watson Associates Inc

Tel: 905 820-9909

E-mail: sales@jwatsonassociates.com