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The Power of Managing Your Time and Personal Priorities

Course ID: ILRMD507
Master time management and change mental patterns to enhance productivity. Set priorities that reflect personal values and life goals.

Description

The ability to manage time and prioritize one’s work is an essential skill that professional managers must master in order to be successful. Today, most jobs require managing multiple priorities while simultaneously looking for ways to improve performance. In addition, professionals need to balance careers with personal priorities. In this course, participants learn a series of invaluable techniques for managing time, setting priorities, changing mental patterns to enhance productivity, and focusing on personal values and life goals.

Who Should Take This Course?

Entry-level managers, administrative personnel, and shift supervisors. Employees needing to improve their priority management skills (such as information technology employees, office managers, etc.). Employees with supervisory responsibilities.

Enrollment

To register, contact an Enrollment Counselor at info@ecornell.com or 1-866-326-7635 (+1-607-330-3200 from outside the United States).

Certificate programs are eligible for eCornell Payment Plans. Discounts are available for military personnel, veterans, and Cornell University Alumni. eCornell programs are not eligible for financial aid or federal Pell Grants. Contact an enrollment counselor for more information.

Next 3 Course available dates are:

September 1, 2010
September 29, 2010
November 24, 2010

Course Format

eCornell takes a problem-based approach to learning, and builds each course around realistic case studies and scenarios. All courses are self-paced, and are facilitated by an eCornell instructor, who leads the online discussions and is available to answer any questions about the course content. This course contains the following modules:

The Power of Managing Priorities

Mind-set and how it affects productivity
The benefits and results of changing mental patterns, and techniques for changing them
Differences between a task and a priority
Setting goals with the SMARTS technique
The importance of goal setting in managing time and priorities
Defining your personal mission
Delegation techniques

Identify and Overcome Time-Wasters

Analyzing and addressing time-wasters
Tools for planning and tracking priorities
Techniques to maximize daily productivity
Techniques to overcome internal and external productivity roadblocks
Techniques to reduce burdensome and unimportant paperwork
Managing email more successfully

Benefits to the Learner

Recognize and respond to the benefits of setting priorities
Recognize and practice mental techniques for becoming more organized
Develop a personal mission statement to balance work and personal goals in a way that promotes achieving both
Identify time-wasters and practice techniques for managing them
Use tools to set and rank priorities
Process paperwork systematically and efficiently
Create an action plan for managing multiple priorities

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Sponsoring School

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Certificate Information

Supervisory Skills

Project Management Institute Professional Development Units

This course qualifies for 6.75 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) for Professional Project Managers (PMPs) seeking ongoing education and professional development for continuing certification. eCornell is a Global Registered Education Provider of PMI. PDUs are designated as Category 3.

Technical Requirements

With all eCornell courses, access is easy. Participants only need a computer and an Internet connection. To view specific technology requirements, visit our Technology Requirements page.