At the end of this course, the participants should be able to:
- Define the concept of self-management and determine its requirements
- Understand the concept and the importance of time in the workplace
- Monitor and analyze their usage of time
- Use tools and strategies that can help them spend their time most effectively in the workplace
- Understand the concept of stress management and factors causing stress in the workplace
- Utilize tools and methods to effectively deal with work stress
Self-Management:
- Self: definition and concept
- Concept and principles of Self-management in the workplace
- Keys to ensure success in self-management.
- Balance in the different aspects of life
- Self-management Main Requirements
- Self-awareness: The concept and the importance of self-awareness, sources of self-awareness, how to raise the level of self-awareness
- Advices for effective self-management, based on the “7 Habits of the Highly Effective People”
Time Management Fundamentals:
- The relationship between Self-Management and Time Management
- Definition of time
- Facts about time
- Time characteristics and the value of time in the workplace.
- Definition of time management and its importance in our life
- Understanding the benefits of time management in the workplace.
Planning of Time in the Workplace :
- Concept of planning of work time and its importance.
- Steps of planning work time:
- 1st step: Where are you now?
- The use of time log
- Time log analysis
- 2nd step: Where do you want to be?
- Set SMART objectives at work
- Set priorities at work:
- Applying PARETO rule (80/20)
- Using (urgent / important) matrix
- 3rd step: How do you get there?
- Setting strategy to reach the desired objectives
- Schedule the required activities
- Following up on scheduled objectives and activities
- 1st step: Where are you now?
Time Wasters in the Workplace:
- The concept of time wasters at work
- Types of time wasters and dealing with them effectively:-
- Ineffective meetings and how to fix them
- Procrastination and how to overcome it
- Centralization and how to reduce it (delegation)
- Poor organization of documents and using (TRAF) system
- Spending too much time doing non-work related activities and how to reduce it
- Inability to say “No“ and learning to say it assertively
- Interruptions (visitors without appointment) and how you manage
- The negative use of phone and how to use it efficiently
Stress Management in the Workplace
- The concept of stress in the workplace
- Factors causing stress: Personal/ environmental / organizational
- Human behavior and its relation to work stress: Submissive behavior / Aggressive behavior.
- Effects of work stress: negative results of work pressures, Developing stages of work stress
- Methods of dealing effectively with work stress: the personal approach / the organizational approach
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