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Managing Multiple Priorities

Manage your time and workload effectively

Benefits to you and your organisation

  • Gain the skills and confidence to approach your workload more positively
  • Identify Key Result Areas and long-term goals
  • Improve your work-life balance
  • Exert greater control over targets and tasks
  • Learn new ways of dealing with heavy workloads and constant interruptions

Core modules

  • Managing time effectively: create your personal time management system, establishing daily routine and good habits
  • Balancing decision bases: there are two key decision bases - 'what' and 'when'. Learn to balance these and identify tools to handle any conflict
  • Coping with overload: establish sources of overload, set priorities against deadlines, deal with multiple challenges
  • Setting achievable goals: set breakthrough SMARTer goals
  • Identifying personal focus and Key Result Areas (KRAs): identify your personal mission, break it down into KRAs
  • Setting priorities: distinguish important/urgent, make decisions quickly, use creative priority handling techniques
  • Working with others: delegate effectively, strategies to reduce interruptions and deal with ‘time bandits’
  • Using Covey's matrix: understand how to focus and direct your energies towards high output activities
  • Running effective meetings: use de Bono's 6TH framework to improve meetings, ensuring better results and speedier decisions

Learning approaches

This programme focuses on individual learning and change. You'll undertake a number of activities on your own and take part in small group work.

Who should attend?

Anyone who wants to improve their personal effectiveness, time management skills and achieve long term goals at work and home.

 

Dates02 - 03 October 2008 (Fully Booked)
19 - 20 February 2009
Duration2 days
Cost£500+VAT (October 2008)
£525+VAT (February 2009)

Includes full documentation, lunch and refreshments.
VenueLondon
DocumentationWorkbook containing all topics covered during the programme.
Booking InfoBook Now
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Please contact us if you'd like to discuss your training requirements with our team, or would like more information
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I manage a variety of projects – all with different deadlines and targets – and work closely with other managers. I'm a big fan of =mc training having been on the Leadership Development Programme. What I now needed was a robust and goal focused approach to the numerous demands on my time. Managing Multiple Priorities has proved to be the answer. Not only am I much more effective at prioritising my work, last month I was promoted as a direct result of the systems I have implemented from the training.

Mick Gisbey, Service Manager, Worthing Churches Homeless Projects

I really enjoyed the programme and I have already found the techniques very useful. My incredibly busy week has actually gone very smoothly - a real success. It is all thanks to great content and the trainer, who was very knowledgeable and provided relevant and practical solutions to my challenges.

James Hails, Communications Manager, Northern Film & Media

Thank you for another great =mc course! I’ve already put the skills gained on the course into practice and I’m really noticing a positive change in my working habits. My inbox currently only has one email in it – what an improvement!

Ali Ley, Trusts & Foundations Administrator, Aldeburgh Music

I found the course really motivating! I have put the techniques into practice and feel like a new and improved version of my former self! I feel much more confident in how I manage my time and would advise anyone who wants to gain realistic and useful time management tools to go on this course.

April Tapping, Communications Assistant, Futurebuilders England


This was a brilliant programme with an excellent trainer. I can't believe how much I learnt in just 2 days and the impact it has had on my work so far. It has helped to improve my time management in a very practical way - and reduced my stress levels!

Runwani Weerasinghe, Press Officer, Breast Cancer Care

After attending =mc’s Managing Multiple Priorities programme, I was commended on the improvement of my time management skills and effectiveness in my annual appraisal. The programme enabled me to achieve real results – I feel much more in control and able to prioritise my workload effectively.

Caroline Carter, Marketing & Development Manager, Open Air Theatre

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