Managing Priorities, Performance & Pressure
Details :
Successful
leaders are those who possess and practice the management skills and techniques
that maintain work productivity at high levels. Effective priority,
performance and pressure management is essential for career success
and personal achievement. This course will teach the participants how to
take more control of their workloads by organising tasks, people and
themselves more effectively.
- Understand
and appreciate the value and importance of setting and maintaining clear
goals/objectives
- Understand
and appreciate the value and importance of workload prioritization
- Learn best
practices and practical techniques for decision making
- Learn
stress management techniques
- Understand
and appreciate the value and importance of effective communication
- Executives
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Anyone who
aspires to hone his planning skills
Day 1
- Clear
business goal/objective
- The
importance of setting clear goals and objectives to business and personal
success
- Aligning
clear goals/objectives with business strategy
- Preparing daily,
weekly and monthly task effectively
- The need
to plan effectively and incorporate goals within the plan
Day 2
- The
importance of prioritization to the achievement of goals and
better performance
- The best
and most commonly used prioritization techniques
- Developing
and improving the prioritization skill
- When can
prioritization be a failure?
- Aligning
with others' priorities
Day 3
- Determining
one's current decision-making style?
- Using
decision-making style to lessen pressure and improve performance
- Improving
decision-making (Mind Mapping Technique)
- Organization's
culture or personal attitudes impact on the quality of our decisions
- Making
more and better informed decisions (Applied Visual Thinking – the Doodling
Technique)
Day 4
- The
definition of stress
- Stress
zones, stress effects and stress responses
- Signs of
distress
- Managing
(fighting) stress
- Time
management and having strategic visions and objectives as ways to help in
minimizing stress
Day 5
- Effective
communication definition and importance
- ِAllocating time for communication
- Judging
the effectiveness of our communication
- Types of
communication that can be most significant for the business
- The
difference between formal and informal communication channels
- All lectures are in colorful presentation
- All lectures are interspersed with interactive discussion
- All lectures include group discussion, case history and exercises
- Actual major incidents as well as industry experience are reviewed
- Participants receive a multicolor course manual
- Pictures of real incidents and case history are shown
- Videos on the subject are shown
daily 09:00 – 14:00