The Power of Managing Your Time and Personal Priorities

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.

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

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• 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

Authoring Faculty

Judith D. Hampton, Adjunct Faculty

Sponsoring School

Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Total Learning Time

Approximately 5-6 hours over a period of two weeks.

Certificate Information

This course can be applied toward the following certificates:

• ME: Managing Productivity
• Supervisory Skills

ACE CREDIT Recommendation



This course contributes to an eCornell Certificate Program that has been recommended for college credit by the American Council on Education's College Credit Recommendation Service (CREDIT). Please refer to the Certificate information page for additional details.

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.