Time Management Seminar # 2233

Get control of your entire workday through effective time management!

When it comes to time management, do you put off more today than you can ever accomplish tomorrow…have a tough time prioritizing tasks when everything is urgent...exhaust yourself by 4:00 p.m. with only a fraction of your work done…see yourself as a decision maker who never gets around to making decisions…dread the next business meeting—or worse, going back to your desk to see what voice mails and e-mails await you?

If you’re doing more and enjoying it less, it’s time to get out of the time trap and back to productivity through effective time management! This seminar gives you practical techniques for controlling time and making it a manageable resource.

How You Will Benefit

• Recognize key components of effective goal setting through time management
  
• Discover your time management strengths and self-management opportunities
  
• Discover quick and easy ways to handle nonvalid tasks
  
• Manage multiple priorities based on validity and urgency
  
• Identify ways to deal with distractions and eliminate interruptions
  
• Set group goals and priorities
  
• Learn strategies to improve your concentration and increase your efficiency
  
• Implement tools and techniques for effective multitasking and scheduling abilities

What You Will Cover

Planning Your Way to Success

• Recognizing the key components of effective goal setting
• Creating clearly defined goals based on your role

Managing Multiple Priorities—Focus on the Important and Valid

• Setting priorities using importance and validity as guideposts
• Using urgency to break ties between competing priorities
• Learning to distinguish between competing priorities based on validity and urgency

Concentration—Your Key to Productive Efficiency

• Learning ways to improve your concentration
• Identifing ways to deal with distractions and interruptions

Taming the Typical Time Wasters

• Learning the IOK method for handling paperwork
• Eliminating (or at least minimize) e-mail overload
• Diagnosing and treating your procrastinating ways using seven timely tips

Managing Meaningful Meetings

• Identifying reasons why some meetings are ineffective
• Planning and leading more productive meetings

Establishing Boundaries to Create Balance

• Prioritizing and choosing your activities to provide balance
• Understanding the importance of honoring your own time

Crafting Your Time Mastery Plan

• Writing two SMART goals for your time mastery plan
• Transferring your key learnings into action

Who Should Attend

Business professionals who want greater control of their time, management style and life by using effective time management techniques.

Includes tips on coping with voice mail and e-mail.

This Seminar Features Blended Learning

AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner—producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant.

Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

2 days / 1.2 CEUs
Nonmembers $1,795 / AMA Members $1,595 / GSA $1,366

Schedule

We have 51 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between October 13, 2008 and June 25, 2009.

• Call 1-877-566-9441 for an AMA Training Consultant.
• E-mail customerservice@amanet.org
• Fax AMA Text Registration Form
• Mail AMA Text Registration Form