Taking Control of Your Workday

How to manage your time, stay organized, and get more done

In today's business climate, we're all looking to do more with less, and in less time. However, experts estimate that white-collar professionals waste 40 percent of each day. Not because they're lazy or unmotivated. Simply because they're never taught how to manage today's fast pace, constant changes, and growing workload.

Give your team the skills they need to take charge of their responsibilities once and for all.

With this one power-packed day of training, your team will learn:

• Identify true priorities when everything is "urgent"
• Eliminate time-wasters by dramatically increasing your focused, productive time
• Anticipate problems and prevent bottlenecks
• Spot the hidden shortcuts in every project
• Resolve the conflict when other people's goals compete with yours
• Stop procrastinating ... get started ... and get it done
• Stay on track with your goals and see progress daily
• Project a can-do attitude that others will respect and admire

Getting It All Done is designed to help every member of your organization gain the tools they need to work smarter, manage better, and live a happier, more productive life. It's training that will empower your workers in ways that positively influence morale and boost your organization's bottom line.

The payoffs are real and lasting.

In one day of customized training brought to your location, your employees will gain new skills and fine-tune old ones in the most beneficial learning environment. Participants will learn to get more done and be more valuable within your organization. They will feel less stressed and frazzled. And, best of all, they'll be able to get to the high-priority projects no one ever seems to have time for.

It's no secret that successful people are those who have learned to control their days — instead of letting interruptions, paper chases, and phone calls control them.

Give your people the chance to gain solid skills and become familiar with proven ideas that will put them more in control on the job and in life. They'll thank you, and your organization will reap amazing benefits from the experience.

Learn how to get caught up — and start getting ahead. This training will help your team master these essential skills:

• Setting priorities, and focusing on what's important.
• Controlling each workday, moving toward objectives steadily with the ability to complete them on time.

Program Overview

• Getting organized and gaining momentum
• Identifying and committing to priorities
• Maintaining balance and control
• Dealing with meetings, delegation, and deadlines

• Common misconceptions about time usage: a revealing exercise
• Identifying the top 10 time eaters
• The 4 sources of jobs that end up on your to-do list
• Beyond the to-do list: additional organizational tools to help you create your daily plan
• The one task to complete first thing in the morning for a blast-off start to your day
• How to ruthlessly protect and exploit the most productive part of your day
• Understanding controllable vs. uncontrollable time so that you can schedule yourself realistically
• How to use a simple time log to understand your time management challenges

• The half-hour weekly exercise that will keep you on track with your goals (and enable you to see your progress every day)
• The magic of the 80/20 rule: Do you understand it? Do you use it?
• Building a Priority Matrix so you don't waste time on "urgent" but unimportant tasks
• How to use the power of goal setting in weight control, personal relationships, and money management
• A 4-part goal-setting format you can use for any type of goal
• The missing link: connecting your goals to your daily action plan

• How to resist the temptation to do everything yourself
• Planning your work space to control interruptions
• Signals that let people know you're busy
• 5 techniques to shorten unexpected visits
• How to gain a full hour every day for your high priorities
• How to train people to phone during your preferred call times
• Tips for saving time on the phone (one technique will cut a full minute off most calls)
• An innovative way to sort and attack your paperwork to stay on track during your work week
• The 30-second way to respond to most business correspondence

• A 3-step process for handling people who think their priorities are more important than yours
• 5 tips for using horizontal delegation
• Unclogging the bottlenecks that hold up your jobs
• A classic system of delegation that
  a. Gets people to solve their own problems
  b. Gives you more options for the problems you must solve
  c. Keeps you and your people growing
• How to get meetings to start — and end — on time
• A simple tool that makes your meetings shorter and more productive
• Procasti-Killers: powerful techniques to get off dead center on stalled projects

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