Aligning Goals and Priorities to Manage Time
Aligning Goals and Priorities to Manage Time
- recognize how misaligned goals can result in a lack of clarity at work
- sequence examples of the steps for using a goal alignment worksheet to align your goals with organizational goals
- ask questions that will help you clarify your goals so you know what is important
- identify some guiding principles that can help you prioritize your work effectively
- match tasks to their appropriate level of urgency and importance as defined in a Priority Matrix
- determine your goals and then prioritize your work tasks according to their importance and urgency
Meeting targets and achieving goals consistently regardless of the business situation isn't easy. A big part of doing this successfully is managing time effectively. In this course, you'll learn why it's important to align your goals with your company's goals, and you'll learn how to do it with a goal alignment worksheet. You'll also learn how to ask questions to clarify goals, and how to establish and prioritize priorities based on these goals.
Anyone at any level in a company who wants to get some practical guidance for how to manage their time.
Make the Time You Need: Get Organized
Make the Time You Need: Get Organized
- recognize strategies for increasing productivity for social and analytical time management personalities
- recognize productivity strategies suitable for driving or inspirational personality types
- recognize techniques for dealing with time stealers
- recognize techniques you can use to deal with people who are time stealers
- sort key job tasks into macro and micro to-do lists
- determine what action to take with your scheduled tasks after reassessing them as part of your regular check-ins
- organize tasks using a time management system
You don't have to manage your time, but the stress and potential for mistakes grows when you don't. To manage time, you need to be organized. In this course, you'll learn strategies for improving your productivity depending on what type of time management personality you have. You'll also learn how to deal with time stealers, create manageable to-do lists, and maintain an organized time management approach.
Anyone at any level in a company who wants to get some practical guidance for how to manage their time
Managing Your Time So It Doesn’t Manage You
Managing Your Time So It Doesn’t Manage You
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- recognize behaviors associated with each scale of personal characteristics that affect time management
- recognize steps in creating a time audit
- identify strategies for managing your energy levels to improve your time management
- recognize techniques to use to deal with three thieves of time
- Knowledge Check: Applying Your Time Management Skills
No one can add an extra hour to the day to get more done. But anyone can make better use of the 24 hours you do have by becoming more effective at time management. All it takes is deciding to seize control of your own time, and then taking small steps in the right direction.
In this course, you'll consider how you're spending your time now and what techniques you can use to spend it more wisely and productively. You'll learn to block the time stealers that interfere with your productivity, use to-do lists and schedules to organize your time and tasks, and develop a regular habit of checking in with your plans to make sure you're getting them done.
Saving Time by Setting Goals
Saving Time by Setting Goals
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- recognize the time management benefits of aligning your work with your manager's goals for you
- identify elements of a tactical plan to ensure your activities are aligned with the goals that have been set for you
- identify how to use a matrix to prioritize tasks based on urgency and importance
- recognize strategies to help you effectively pivot between competing priorities
- identify strategies for long-term time management
- Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Skills in Aligning Goals and Priorities
When goals and targets seem to shift daily and there’s never enough time to get everything done, it’s hard to achieve goals consistently. Good time management will help you work smarter – not harder – so that you get more of the important things done in less time.
The first step in working smarter is making sure you’re going in the right direction. In this course, you'll learn how to accomplish more through effective time management. You’ll learn why it's important to align your goals with your company's goals, and how to do it. You'll also learn how to differentiate between urgent and important tasks, how to pivot between conflicting priorities, and how taking the time to make improvements can save you time in the long run.
Sharpening Your Focus to Stay on Track
Sharpening Your Focus to Stay on Track
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- recognize tactics for managing personal focus challenges
- identify techniques to manage distractions so you can focus better
- identify strategies for managing time conflicts so you can focus on your work
- identify best practices for regular maintenance of your time management system to keep your focus
- recognize mental resilience techniques for regaining focus
- Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Time Management Focusing Skills
Even when you know your priorities and have an organized time management routine, you'll still be challenged every day by distractions, temptations, interruptions, and procrastination. To avoid causing internal time management detours, you have to develop ways to stay focused, and this often means using personal and interpersonal skills in very specific ways.
In this course, you'll learn strategies to manage challenges to your personal focus, techniques to help you shut out distractions and manage time conflicts, and ways to regain focus and develop mental resilience when faced with change.
The Art of Staying Focused
The Art of Staying Focused
- recognize tactics for avoiding procrastination and temptation and keeping focused
- recognize tactics to beat fatigue and manage multitasking to maintain your focus
- identify strategies for minimizing distractions in your environment
- select the most effective response for declining a request
- strategically adjust your focus in response to changing circumstances
- recognize techniques for regaining focus
- maintain your focus on a task despite internal and external challenges
Even if you know what's important to do and have an organized time management routine, losing focus can stop your progress in its tracks. In this course, you'll learn strategies for dealing with focus challenges and distractions at work. You'll also explore ways of saying no, and consider ways in which you can adjust your focus in response to changing circumstances or emergencies. And you'll learn how to refocus when something causes you to lose focus.
Anyone at any level in a company who wants to get some practical guidance for how to manage their time.
