Time and Priority Management
Identify important time investments, common productivity hurdles that can get in the way,
and support positive change with tools to refocus when faced with distractions.
Target Audience
All Levels
Balancing our time and priorities has become more complex in today’s fast-paced world, thanks to constant connectivity, information overload and the ever-evolving nature of work. This training program goes beyond theory by exploring how purpose, strategy and personal priorities and preferences can impact how we spend our days then moves to various planning methods, allowing individuals to tailor their strategies to their unique work styles.
Participants will gain insights into recognizing and overcoming common productivity hurdles, along with practical techniques to refocus when faced with distractions, competing priorities and the stress that can come from never-ending feelings of urgency. With time allocated to action planning, participants will leave feeling more equipped to make more effective and efficient choices each day.
We all learn differently. At the core, Boreala Management’s design is inclusive and considers a whole host of participant needs and preferences to ensure a psychologically safe and optimal learning environment. We incorporate activities for experiential learning, inquiry exercises for reflection, guidelines for conceptualization, and simple tools (handouts) for applying the content in the workplace.
- The importance of having a clear purpose, personally and within an organization
- To identify ‘Most Important Things’ (MITs) tasks that align with their goals and priorities
- How to manage tasks either with both a Priority Management and Time Management approach
- Tools such as the ‘Eisenhower Matrix’ and the ‘Pareto Principle’ to evaluate the importance of activities relative to their urgency
- The value of accountability – to themselves, to their teams, and their clients
- The time-draining impact of procrastination, task switching, and distractions
- How to establish ideal times of day for optimal productivity for themselves and their team
- Techniques to refocus when feeling distracted or experiencing stress
- How to say ‘no’ in a way that helps maintain focus and relationships
OUTCOMES
This program is designed to help participants: learn the fundamentals of building process maps, how to identify a problem and its boundaries, and outline the sequential steps to build a robust flowchart. They will be given the opportunity to construct their own process maps, applying their learnings and leave equipped to confidently map out their own processes in the future.
DESGIN GUIDANCE PRINCIPLES
We all learn differently. At the core, Boreala Management’s design is inclusive and considers a whole host of participant needs and preferences to ensure a psychologically safe and optimal learning environment. We incorporate activities for experiential learning, inquiry exercises for reflection, guidelines for conceptualization, and simple tools (handouts) for applying the content in the workplace.
OBJECTIVES
- The purpose and value of building both a function and a process map
- How to build a function map
- How to pinpoint what processes to map
- The methodology behind process mapping
- Additional insight and analyses process mapping can provide
- Hands-on exercises on process mapping
Learning Pathway
Prioritization & Planning
- Describe the role of organizational and personal purpose in setting priorities
- Identify the MITs (Most Important Things) to achieve the organization’s purpose
- Identify the benefits of managing priorities and time
- Identify time & priority management ‘current state’
Defining process maps
- Define time management, priority management, and productivity
- Prioritize tasks and deliverables using tools like the Eisenhower Matrix & Pareto Principle
- Identify time-wasters and pitfalls that can take one off-track including:
- Procrastination
- Distractions
- Emails and task-switching
- Taking too much on
Focus & Flow
- Identify ideal times of day for optimal productivity
- Review techniques to refocus when distracted
- Explore the importance of accountability – to oneself, to teams and to clients
- Learn to decline requests in a way that helps maintain focus and relationships
- Develop an action plan to integrate new tools & techniques
NOTE: This training has been designed for approximately 8-10 participants. Any changes to this (i.e. mixed level audience, more people or shorter training days) may require modifications to ensure an optimal learning experience
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