Self-Organization and Time Management for Personal Effectiveness

Program Overview:

Success in life is key and even more vital in business, only 20% of business executives ever achieve their full potentials. They under achieve and fail to live up to their possibilities, because they fail to use their time properly and are thus not effective. Business today demands double or even more of our usual value-added time to remain in it. Achieving organizational effectiveness starts from personal level. Organizations are made up of structures/units, having people who need to be effective and efficient to attain common corporate goals. It is to be noted however that employees’ effectiveness is key to superior organizational performance. 

For Whom:

Middle/senior level executives, Officers, supervisors, managers in both public and private sector organizations that need to improve on their personal effectiveness. 

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

*          manage themselves in relation to time;

*          get organized and help others to be organized;

*          set priorities, stick to it and thrive under pressure;

*          cultivate the habit of effectiveness;

*          manage themselves under pressure; and

*          conduct effective meetings. 

Course outline:        

Day 1: Understanding the demands of a job

• Goal setting
  • Putting value on time use
• Getting organized
  • The unorganized manager (case study)
• Time management / self-organization
  • Habits of effectiveness
• The 4Ds of time management
  • The Matrix of Time Management

Day 2: Delegation and Stress Management

• Managerial effectiveness
• Coping with pressure using effective Delegation
• Key Steps to Being Assertive
  • Developing Assertiveness skills
• Handling Stress
  • Symptoms of Stress; Causes of Stress)
• Dealing Positively with Stress

Training Methodology: Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods.