Time Management
- Finding an Extra Hour Every Day: Time Management & Technology Strategies for Busy Professionals
- Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
- Take Control of Your Time: A Guide to Practical Time Management (online)
- Taming the E-Mail and Office Clutter Beast! (formerly E-Mail and Information Overload: Proactively Managing the Glut)
- Defeating the 8 Demons of Distraction: Strategies to Increase Productivity and Reduce Stress
- A Manager’s Course in Time Management: Getting More From Your Time and From Those Around You
- Smartphone Success: Getting More Productivity (and Fun!) from Your Smartphone and Tablet Devices GOOGLE® EDITION
- Smartphone Success: Getting More Productivity (and Fun!) from Your Smartphone and Tablet Devices OUTLOOK® Edition
Finding an Extra Hour Every Day: Time Management & Technology Strategies for Busy Professionals
Everyone wishes they had extra time in their day. Explore the most common areas of productivity loss (and possible gain) affecting many busy professionals today. Come and learn useful strategies for finding at least one extra hour of productivity every day!
You will learn to:
- Identify key projects and integrate planning tools to better prioritize your work
- Determine when to say “No” to unnecessary tasks
- Apply techniques to clear the clutter in your mind for better focus and attention
- Choose different strategies for making your time in meetings more productive and efficient
- Employ the concept of “padding” to better manage incoming information
You will benefit by:
- Learning how to be honest with yourself about responsibilities, capabilities, and capacity
- Developing strategies which allow you to identify important responsibilities and how to best allocate time to them
- Knowing how to take advantage of expected and unexpected "downtime"
Audience:
Anyone wishing to gain control over their workload and find extra time in their day.
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Cost: $159 |
Dates & Times: *CANCELLED: Tue. 10/23/12, 8:30 a.m. - |
Dates & Times: Thu. 2/7/13, 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
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| Dates & Times: *RESCHEDULED: Tue. 6/18/13, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Code: TMC1309 |
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Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
You’re probably wondering what “eat that frog” means. This workshop will show you how to zero-in on your critical tasks and organize yourself to make the most of your day.
You will learn to:
- Utilize a process for planning to meet goals
- Generate ideas for taking action
- Identify personal constraints that interfere with good time management
You will benefit by:
- Recognizing new ways to get motivated for action
- Explaining "frog eating" and why it’s good for you
- Listing new ways to "create" more time for yourself
Audience:
All staff members who find themselves overloaded by work and would like to find innovative ways to reduce workload anxieties
Program Note:
Participants will receive a copy of the book Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy.
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Cost: $159 |
Dates & Times: Wed. 2/27/13, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Code: TMC1304 |
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Take Control of Your Time: A Guide to Practical Time Management (online)
This unique self-paced online tutorial will enable you to get organized and identify your most valuable time in a workday.
You will learn to:
- Apply strategies for planning and prioritizing that will help you maximize where and how you spend your time
- Assess how you use your time to determine where improvements can be made
- Identify ways to set realistic goals so you can better focus your efforts
- Arrange your tasks so that you can make the best use of your prime time and down time
- Utilize a time log that will aid in eliminating distracting interruptions
You will benefit by:
- Realizing how you can achieve more at work and at home
- Reducing stress in your life by applying basic time management techniques
- Becoming more self-disciplined with how you spend your time
- Developing more organized work methods
- Improving your ability to concentrate and control interruptions
Audience:
All staff and faculty who must meet the challenge of managing their limited time to get the most important work accomplished
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Cost: $59 |
Dates & Times: Available 24 hours a day from date of activation through 8/31/13
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Taming the E-Mail and Office Clutter Beast!
(formerly E-Mail and Information Overload: Proactively Managing the Glut)
Every day professionals are getting buried under a continuing stream of both useful and useless information. Come and learn how to finally feel like you are on top of your work, rather than it being on top of you.
You will learn to:
- Use proven strategies to effectively sort, prioritize, and manage your email accounts
- Identify ways to manage the various sources of information in your work
- Prepare a daily plan of action to apply to the most important and/or urgent projects and tasks in your job
You will benefit by:
- Learning how to control e-mail, voice mail, snail mail, articles, reports, and other sources of information overload
- Gaining efficiency by reducing or eliminating clutter on your computer and in your work area
- Increasing your effectiveness by proactively identifying and acting on your most important/urgent projects and tasks
- Lowering your stress level by feeling more in control of the information flow
Audience:
Anyone who experiences a high volume of information
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Cost: $159 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 5/9/13, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Defeating the 8 Demons of Distraction: Strategies to Increase Productivity and Reduce Stress
Success at work or home often depends on effectively dealing with distractions. Although a few distractions may be easily managed, if constant they can lead to feeling overwhelmed, irritable, and ineffective.
You will learn to:
- Recognize the eight common distractions that interfere with personal productivity and time management
- Create a plan to improve your efficiency so that critical goals are met
- Apply techniques to stop the interruptions of others so you can focus on the task at hand
You will benefit by:
- Understanding how distraction interferes with productivity, peacefulness, time management, and organization
- Increasing task completion, speed, and accuracy
- Experiencing less stress and greater satisfaction as you move from good intentions to successful action
Audience:
Anyone who would like to optimize their work/life settings, manage their minds, and organize their tasks
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Cost: $159 |
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| Dates & Times: Wed. 1/16/13, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: TMC1303 |
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A Manager’s Course in Time Management: Getting More From Your Time and From Those Around You
For managers, supervisors and leaders, time management means leveraging the time of their staff as well as their own time. Learn to better utilize all organizational assets through a practical mix of personal strategies and best practices to maximize your time as well as the time of your staff.
You will learn to:
- Identify key projects, goals, and initiatives for your work group, team, and/or department to more easily prioritize your workload
- Identify the “five levers” for dealing with feelings that leave you overwhelmed
- Apply Covey’s “Four Quadrants of Urgency/Importance” to successfully organize priorities
- Identify available internal staff assets for the accomplishment of stated goals
- Utilize handheld device tips and strategies for better mobile or off-site management
You will benefit by:
- Driving greater group/team productivity and prioritization
- Achieving greater e-mail based productivity and efficiency
- Gaining mastery over your hand-held device(s)
- Clarifying priorities for yourself and for each of your staff members
- Utilizing staff and team meetings for greater coordination and delegation
- Establishing better coordination of staff and resources by using planning capabilities within your e-mail program’s task, calendar, and notes functions
Audience:
Managers who need to get a better handle on managing their time and the time of their staff
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Cost: $159 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 1/24/13, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Smartphone Success: Getting More Productivity (and Fun!) from Your Smartphone and Tablet Devices GOOGLE® EDITION
We all know which apps are fun, but do you know which “apps” and functions will help you turn your Android™, iPhone®, BlackBerry® and/or Windows Mobile™ device into a productivity workhorse? In this session, we will discuss the applications and strategies to take your smart device from "cool" to "critical" when it comes to productivity, time, project, people, and e-mail management.
There will be time allotted in the course for program participants to share their favorite “apps,” allowing you to gain knowledge from all program attendees.You will learn to:
- Apply the “critical basics” to realize the full potential of your mobile device
- Integrate your smartphone with other existing productivity software (including Google®) for greater productivity
- Use techniques to successfully manage your e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes
- Use password, log-in, and private information strategies to effectively protect yourself
- Identify which “apps” and tools will best boost your personal productivity
- Select smartphone and tablet peripherals that will extend your productivity beyond the device
You will benefit by:
- Having a discussion about smartphone power management
- Going beyond the basics to discover new and useful “apps” and services that help to organize your life
- Knowing which financial management, travel management and social networking “apps” meet your personal needs
Audience:
Anyone who wants to maximize the potential of their smartphone or tablet
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Cost: $149 |
Dates & Times: Wed. 9/26/12, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
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Smartphone Success: Getting More Productivity (and Fun!) from Your Smartphone and Tablet Devices OUTLOOK® EDITION
We all know which apps are fun, but do you know which “apps” and functions will help you turn your Android™, iPhone®, BlackBerry® and/or Windows Mobile™ device into a productivity workhorse? In this session, we will discuss the applications and strategies to take your smart device from "cool" to "critical" when it comes to productivity, time, project, people, and e-mail management.
There will be time allotted in the course for program participants to share their favorite “apps,” allowing you to gain knowledge from all program attendees.You will learn to:
- Apply the “critical basics” to realize the full potential of your mobile device
- Integrate your smartphone with other existing productivity software (including Outlook®) for greater productivity
- Use techniques to successfully manage your e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes
- Use password, log-in, and private information strategies to effectively protect yourself
- Identify which “apps” and tools will best boost your personal productivity
- Select smartphone and tablet peripherals that will extend your productivity beyond the device
You will benefit by:
- Having a discussion about smartphone power management
- Going beyond the basics to discover new and useful “apps” and services that help to organize your life
- Knowing which financial management, travel management and social networking “apps” meet your personal needs
Audience:
Anyone who wants to maximize the potential of their smartphone or tablet
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Cost: $149 |
Dates & Times: Wed. 9/26/12, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
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