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Managing Your Time and Your Priorities: a Matter of Efficiency and Credibility

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COVID-19 turned our personal and professional lives upside down overnight. If our pre-coronavirus world was one of information overload, constant interruptions and keeping all the balls up in the air at all times, we’ve doubled down in recent months as we’ve wrapped our head around a host of new technologies, embraced the work-from-home transition and done our best to attend to family responsibilities in the middle of a workday.

The end result? The beast that is time management is even harder to tame. How do you deal with intrusions and still maintain your productivity? How do you keep your inbox organized so you don’t let any important emails slip through the cracks? How can you stick to a routine while still being flexible enough to deal with the inevitable changes that arise?

This course will help you acquire and put into practice a set of techniques that are proven to enhance time and priority management, so you can be a more efficient, more reliable and more resourceful team member.

Presentation

GOALS

Identify value-added activities.
Set your goals and priorities (urgent vs. important)
Make effective plans that improve flexibility and reliability
Efficiently handle interruptions
Identify concrete opportunities where you can improve time management, both for yourself and for your whole team.
Tame your inbox and your to-do list

IS THIS FOR YOU?

Professionals
Managers
Executives

SPECIAL FEATURES

Immediate application of new skills in the workplace.
Opportunity to increase productivity, achieve balance and increase job satisfaction.

Program

Build your reputation

Understand how your perceived professionalism is linked to your time management
Boost your credibility and professionalism by improving time management

Explore work-time distribution

Understand your personal energy curve and make the best use of your time
Reflect on your objectives, goals and priorities, as well as the interruptions and crises that you generally encounter, in order to choose the proper time management tools
Avoid procrastinating and “precrastinating”

Take a concrete approach to managing your time in a dynamic environment

Learn how to combine the calendar and tasks in your email program (the course focuses on Outlook, but the methodology applies to any email program)
With concrete examples, use Franklin Covey’s matrix to optimize your use of time
Draft a schedule of a typical work day
Work with SMART goals

Discover how to take action

What is important?
How do you get started?
Why is good time management so hard?

Learn to prioritize and delegate

Acquire an effective prioritization system (e.g. ABC)
Find out how to prevent C-level priorities from escalating to A-level priorities
Learn how to avoid procrastination and how it affects your time management

TRAINING APPROACH

The dynamic learning style invites participants to reflect on how they currently manage their time. The course will employ and review a variety of different exercises, tools and questions.

Instructors

Sophie Lemieux

MBA, Adm.A., CMC

Management Consultant and Instructor