Companies often invest massively to obtain the best structures, the most rational processes and the most powerful IT tools.

These efforts often contrast sharply with the difficulties staff members encounter to optimally manage their own activity by muddling through to meet deadlines, sifting through ever increasing amounts of information and reconciling tasks that are often incompatible with one another. And yet, the stakes for personal effectiveness are a major concern to employees since they determine their own professional success, and because difficulties encountered often have a serious impact on their personal well-being and their life outside work!

 

This course teaches you the basic techniques and methods for optimally managing your time and making better use of the different modes of communicating and exchanging information. By applying them, you will see immediate progress and acquire new, more effective working skills that are less time-consuming and use less energy.

 

Learning plan

Become aware of your time management and define your priorities

• Assess your time management and the key points for improvement

• Recognise the factors in time wasting

• Define your priorities to be able to move from endured time to selected time

Daily self improvement

• How to deal with everyday interruptions

• Respond to troublemakers assertively while appearing available

• Keep your personal and professional priorities and goals in your diary to achieve them better

Manage information better

• Develop your memory and improve your note taking to boost your everyday effectiveness

• Master email management and adopt time-saving behaviour

• Learn to set yourself improvement goals and fulfil them