Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Managing Multiple Priorities and Projects

Why Should You Take This Managing Multiple Priorities and Projects Course?

Managing Multiple Priorities and Projects is an effective workshop designed for the way professionals work today. Unlike similarly titled programs that are a rehash of old ideas and outdated concepts, this training is cutting edge and on-point, packed with the latest project-management techniques and prioritizing tools. During the very first few minutes of training, you'll pinpoint old habits and behaviors that are wasting your precious time and sabotaging your efforts, and you'll start replacing them with success habits all top achievers share.

You'll discover how to establish priorities by setting goals that will serve as your guide. You'll also determine what is truly important on the job and at home, so that you can begin letting go of the nonessential tasks, activities and commitments that are crowding your schedule and eating your time. What's more, you'll find out how to focus your efforts where they'll make the biggest difference in your results.

The essential set of skills you'll learn in Managing Multiple Priorities and Projects will make a significant and immediate impact on your daily productivity. You'll find you have more time available, that you're doing more planning and less reacting, that you're gaining cooperation from those who were once resistant, that your priorities seem to fall into place rather than compete for your attention. You'll enjoy your job more and experience far less stress because you'll have the tools you need to handle anything that comes your way.

Topics To Be Covered Include:

Managing Yourself: Replacing Bad Habits With Success Habits

• Identifying old habits and thought processes that rob you of time and effectiveness
• 5 key success habits highly effective professionals share — and how to begin integrating them into your life
• A 7-step formula for ending procrastination ... forever!
• The trap of perfectionism and how it may be sabotaging your success
• Learning to say "no" with tact: A success habit that will save you tons of time
• Any Many, Many more!

Syllabus

Managing Yourself: Replacing Bad Habits With Success Habits

• Identifying old habits and thought processes that rob you of time and effectiveness
• 5 key success habits highly effective professionals share — and how to begin integrating them into your life
• A 7-step formula for ending procrastination ... forever!
• The trap of perfectionism and how it may be sabotaging your success
• Learning to say "no" with tact: A success habit that will save you tons of time

Establishing Priorities to Get the Most Out of Your Time

• Discover the 9 great deceivers that keep you powerless to prioritize
• What are your real priorities? Identifying what matters most — professionally and personally
• Learn our "F.A.S.T." (Focus, Agree, Schedule, Track) system for priority management!
• How to determine what"s "hottest" when everything (and everyone) is screaming for your attention
• Let it go: Strategies for cutting loose from nonpriority tasks, activities, commitments and obligations that bog you down

Essentials of Planning: Your Key to Effectively Managing Projects and Priorities

• The power of the one-minute focus as a way to start your day right
• Understanding Pareto"s Principle and how to use the 80/20 rule to focus your efforts
• Powerful planning techniques guaranteed to boost your productivity
• 5 techniques that America"s top achievers use to get on track and stay on target
• Goal-setting "how-to"s" for gaining control of your time, your projects and your priorities

Organization "Musts" for Getting and Staying On Track

• Tips for getting projects on the right track so you don"t get sidetracked
• How to organize anything in 3 steps: Analyze, plan and take action!
• The secret to making your to-do list work for you instead of against you
• Technology tamers: Getting a grip on e-mail, voice mail, faxes and more
• A step-by-step plan of attack for turning piles into files
• 5 personal-filing systems that take only seconds to use
• Take our Multiple-Project Organizer back to the job for ongoing reference — and immediate relief!

Time-Management Tools and Strategies From the Pros

• 5 time-wise habits that top achievers share
• Identifying your greatest time-wasters — and making a plan to eliminate them
• 20 bright ideas for stopping the time-draining effects of interruptions
• Discovering your daily peak productivity time and how to make the most of it
• Calendars, day planners, PDAs and personalproductivity software: Determining which tools will work best for you
• Decrease unnecessary time in meetings — and increase the results you want to achieve
• Deadlines 101: Tips for assessing how long a project will really take

Building Positive Working Relationships: The Secret to Getting the Job Done

• "How-to"s" for gaining commitment and cooperation for your project
• Communication tips for building rapport up and down the project line
• The secret to asking for what you need in a way that ensures you"ll get it
• Resolving conflicting demands with a system that cools tempers and earns respect
• You can"t do it all! Delegation techniques that work like magic to lighten your load
• 5 powerful ways to keep conflict to a minimum on any project team

Effectively Handling Change, Crises, Emergencies and the Unexpected

• 6 strategies that help you anticipate team and project problems — and head them off
• How to deal quickly and confidently with inevitable project changes
• 3 keys to making way for the "no way" deadline
• Fallback formulas that anticipate human error and scheduling glitches
• How to avoid making mistakes when you"re under pressure
• 9 reasons why projects fail — and how to avoid each one

Building a Solid Defense Against Stress and Pressure

• Accurately gauging your pressure level to apply instant stress reducers
• How to detect and defuse your unique pressure-to-perform time bombs
• Determining your top 10 stressors: Brainstorming on how you"ll eliminate or reduce them
• Recognizing the negative, time-robbing power of worrying and how to banish it forever
• Tactics for avoiding the pressure to do more when your plate is full
• CHECKLIST: Developing a healthy balance in your life