Keeping Focused and Productive in Stressful Times
Time and Stress Management
Wellness and Balance Workshop
Keeping Focused and Productive in Stressful Times
Due to an underlying threat of terrorism, a somewhat unstable economy, and constant change; these are stressful times. Add to this corporate acquisitions, mergers and reorganizations and you get an environment in which management, teams, and individuals are struggling to maintain focus and productivity.
This dynamic and interactive presentation provides structure and solutions to help you move toward achievement of business objectives while reducing personal stress. A personal Action Plan will be developed to help participants make immediate use of what they have learned.
Learning Objectives:
- Practice effective techniques for separating business activities from uncontrollable outside factors.
- Develop a personal vision and mission which connect your roles to achieve goals.
- Learn how to begin each day with renewed enthusiasm for the job and the organization.
- Identify your prime work times and how to use them effectively.
- Improve interpersonal communication skills; listening, feedback and assertiveness.
- Apply the Paredo Principle to focus your efforts on the most important items.
- Set priorities and SMART goals that drive your actions.
- Practice a tried and proven system for planning and prioritizing.
- Allow the systems to serve you; not you serve the systems; e-mail, telephone, etc.
- Learn how to improve trust and a commitment to excellence.
- Discover 25 ways to maximize your time and effectiveness.
- Identify and understand your personal sources of stress.
- Recognize how to build margin into an overloaded schedule.
- Create successful and healthy balance between home and work.
- Develop a personal plan to create a “Daily Private Victory”.
- Develop an Action Plan to extend the learning experience .
Time and Stress Management
Two of the major obstacles of personal and professional effectiveness involve the ways we manage our time and our stresses. This dynamic and interactive presentation provides solutions for these problems and blends two days of training into one. Participants will identify and focus on the modifiable circumstances that produce the fruit of overload and lack of control. A personal action plan will be developed that addresses the root of the problem and helps bridge the gap between knowledge gained in the seminar and applying the actions immediately. Participants are encouraged to bring their calendars or planning systems to the class.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn strategies that maximize effectiveness and efficiency.
- Identify your prime work times and how to make effective use of time logs.
- Understand and apply “interruption management”.
- Apply the Paredo Principle to focus your efforts on the most important items.
- Set priorities and SMART goals that drive your actions.
- Identify and understand your personal sources of stress.
- Practice a tried and proven system for planning and prioritizing.
- Learn how to delegate effectively.
- Overcome procrastination.
- Allow the systems to serve you; not you serve the systems; e-mail, telephone, etc.
- Recognize how to build margin into an overloaded schedule.
- Discover 25 ways to maximize your time and effectiveness.
- Create balance between home and work.
- Develop an Action Plan to extend the learning experience.
Wellness and Balance Workshop
Four in ten Americans describe their lives as highly stressful. A successful balancing act between family and career is becoming rare and often takes a toll on both aspects of daily life.
In this workshop, we will examine the building blocks of a healthy lifestyle considering the four major components; physical, mental, social-emotional, and spiritual health. Participants will develop a Personal Wellness Plan and construct a behavior-modification tool designed to bridge the gap between good intentions and healthy life-long action.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn practical ways to create balance between work and family life.
- Examine personal stress from the aspect of creating margin in the four major domains of stress:
- Time
- Emotional Energy
- Physical Energy
- Finances
- Understand and apply the principles of nutrition and weight control.
- Learn how to construct a personal physical fitness plan.
- Develop a strategy to get the right amount of sleep and awaken refreshed.
- Understand and apply the principles of SMART personal goal setting.
- Develop a daily positive, hopeful attitude.
- Apply strategies that bring structure into a chaotic lifestyle.
- Create an Action Plan to extend the learning experience.