Program Outline
About this Program
Achieving work-life balance can be challenging in today’s fast-paced and constantly changing workplace. This practical workshop helps participants take greater control of their time, priorities and workload to reduce stress and improve overall productivity and wellbeing.
Participants explore strategies for effective prioritisation, goal setting, scheduling, managing meetings and making smarter use of technology to work more efficiently and sustainably.
Like all People Tank programs, the workshop is practical, interactive and designed for immediate workplace application, with opportunities for reflection, discussion and real-world learning throughout.
Program Topics
Module 1 - Take Control of Your Time
Introduction
• Program outline and expectations
• The need to take the lead
• The above the line model
• Understand and reverse a below the line response.
Prioritise your Tasks
• Understand the big picture
• Clarify the purpose of your role?
• Urgent versus important tasks
• Explore the prioritisation matrix
• Apply the matrix to your role.
Module 2 - Achieve More Each Week
• Planning for the longer term
• Options for expanding the quadrant of leadership
• Step away and think more strategically
• Determine your work goals
• Apply the SMART principle
• 3 steps to goal achievement.
Module 3 - Choose to Work Smarter
Assert yourself
• Manage the quadrant of deception
• Negotiate unreasonable requests
• Learn to say ‘no’
• Understand and schedule to your energy cycle.
Manage your meetings
• Understand the meeting process
• Lead productive meetings.
Work smarter with technology
• You and your inbox
• Tips for managing email.
Be the change
• Identify relevant actions that can be applied to your workplace projects.
Delivery Options
• 1x full day
• The program can also be delivered as 2x half days or 2x 3hr virtual modules.
Audience
• This course that is suitable for anyone seeking to be a more effective time manager. In particular, if find yourself being distracted by less important things whilst trying to achieve tight deadlines for core projects. Or if you have trouble with the sheer volume of work that you have to complete and find yourself spread too thinly across numerous tasks
• This course will enable you to make day to day choices that support improved personal productivity and goal attainment, providing you with a platform to take control of your time and achieve a more ideal work life balance.
Key Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Explain the ‘above the line’ model
• Recall how the ‘above the line’ model supports taking control of your time
• Define the core purpose of your role
• Recall the prioritisation matrix and describe the 4 different quadrants
• Use the matrix to prioritise your current tasks
• Identify how you can reduce time spent in quadrant 1
• Explain how to effectively identify, plan to attain your performance goals
• Describe the SMART principle and use it to write a clear performance goal
• Determine steps that will achieve a SMART goal
• Explain the concept of a WRAP and apply this to your weekly schedule
• Discuss how you can manage time spent in quadrant 3
• State the 3 steps to politely and professionally say ‘no’ to an unreasonable request
• Practice saying no to an unreasonable request
• Discuss how to more effectively integrate energy levels into your daily scheduling
• Articulate strategies that enable you to better manage time spent in meetings
• Determine ways to take more control of technology and email
• Establish a personal action plan that aims to improve your time management.
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