INTRODUCTION
Successful leaders are those who possess and practice the management skills and techniques that maintain work productivity at high levels. Effective priority, performance and pressure management is essential for career success and personal achievement. This course will teach the participants how to take more control of their workloads by organizing tasks, people and themselves more effectively.
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
- Understand and appreciate the value and importance of setting and maintaining clear goals/objectives
- Understand and appreciate the value and importance of workload prioritization
- Learn best practices and practical techniques for decision making
- Learn stress management techniques
- Understand and appreciate the value and importance of effective communication
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Executives
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Anyone who aspires to hone his planning skills
PROGRAM OUTLINE
- Clear business goal/objective
- The importance of setting clear goals and objectives to business and personal success
- Aligning clear goals/objectives with business strategy
- Preparing daily, weekly and monthly task effectively
- The need to plan effectively and incorporate goals within the plan
- The importance of prioritization to the achievement of goals and better performance
- The best and most commonly used prioritization techniques
- Developing and improving the prioritization skill
- When can prioritization be a failure?
- Aligning with others' priorities
- Determining one's current decision-making style?
- Using decision-making style to lessen pressure and improve performance
- Improving decision-making (Mind Mapping Technique)
- Organization's culture or personal attitudes impact on the quality of our decisions
- Making more and better informed decisions (Applied Visual Thinking – the Doodling Technique)
- The definition of stress
- Stress zones, stress effects and stress responses
- Signs of distress
- Managing (fighting) stress
- Time management and having strategic visions and objectives as ways to help in minimizing stress
- Effective communication definition and importance
- ِAllocating time for communication
- Judging the effectiveness of our communication
- Types of communication that can be most significant for the business
- The difference between formal and informal communication channels
