Improving your workplace effectiveness

Overview

This workshop is for people who are interested in working more effectively, with not necessarily more effort, and could use more time in their day.

Course Content

This workshop allows participants to review their work and life demands and focus on the use of practical strategies and tactics to become more effective and productive. Participants are encouraged to make changes required to prioritise effectively, reduce time robbers and maintain work–life balance.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course attendees should be able to:

• identify a personal self management preference and specific actions that will assist them to manage their own preferred style and that of others
• review and appropriately use common time management tools and determine SMARTER goals
• apply Covey’s quadrant analysis to establish workload priorities, delegate and manage task completion
• apply knowledge of the personal concentration curve to enhance personal effectiveness
• apply the 80:20 principle to planning time, identify common time robbers and brainstorm strategies to address them
• evaluate the effectiveness in using technology to assist time management.

Benefits to your organisation

• improved efficiency and productivity of staff through a focus on achieving the organisation’s priorities
• effective management of priorities, projects and tasks and the ability to adapt to changing priorities

Benefits to you

• ability to review work habits and identify ways you can become more effective and time efficient
• skills and techniques for surviving in today’s fast-paced and demanding workplace
• setting and reaching of goals