Time and Stress Management

Take control of your time...and get control of your stress!

Do you put off more today than you can ever accomplish tomorrow...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 productive management! This seminar gives you practical techniques for controlling time and making it a manageable resource.

Who Should Attend?

Business professionals who want greater control of their time, management style and life.

How You Will Benefit:

• Recognize key components of effective goal setting through time management
• Discover your time management strengths and self-management opportunities
• Manage multiple priorities based on validity and urgency
• Redirect your efforts to the most important and valid tasks
• Identify ways to deal with distractions and eliminate interruptions
• Set group goals and priorities
• Discover quick and easy ways to handle non-valid tasks
• Learn strategies to improve your concentration and increase your efficiency
• Implement tools and techniques for effective multi-tasking and scheduling abilities NOW INCLUDES TIPS ON COPING WITH VOICE MAIL AND E-MAIL

What You Will Cover:

• Understanding stress: cause and effects of stress... personal stress and lifestyle assessment...an altruistic look at stress: perception is reality
• A closer look at feelings and emotional well-being: perception and defense mechanisms at work
• How to calculate the value of your time

• Evaluating your own time management issues and style
• How to use the various tools of communication
• Coping with change and time pressure
• Take the “Time Mastery Profile”
• Identify time wasters
• Identify your own challenges in organizing your work day
• Set goals and action plans
• Guidelines for prioritizing effectively
• Changing the urgent/important paradigm in your life
• Effective meeting planning: the ten steps to conducting effective meetings
• Time pressures in the “wired” workplace
• Tools and techniques for effective multi-tasking
• Stress—you know you have it—and how to deal with it
• The four main causes of stress
• Fifteen techniques for coping with and controlling stress

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