Setting Priorities, Time Management & Stress Reduction

Setting Priorities, Time Management & Stress Reduction

OBJECTIVES

• Actively identify and reduce stress in themselves and others
• Develop ways of Managing the most Important element – TIME
• Take charge of your state of mind
• Maximizes performance and motivation at work
• Improve health and happiness
• Have a positive economic impact on individual and team performance
• Use NLP to change the way you think
• Be your Best at all times

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Everybody who would like LESS Stress, Anxiety and undeliverable expectation in there life. In short, professionals, Supervisors, Personnel professionals, Training professionals, Occupational Health Specialists, Health and Safety professionals, anyone that has to manage stress and pressure at work, Meet deadlines and deliver Results.

COURSE OUTLINE 

DAY 1

Managing Your Job

• Managing yourself and the resources at your disposal
• What are you and your team trying to achieve?
• Defining your objectives and key result areas
• Establishing responsibilities and priorities

Practical Time Management & Planning Activities

• Effective use of diaries, time planners, time logs, etc.
• Criteria for prioritising – urgent and important
• Planning and scheduling your activities
• Dealing with interruptions and distractions – staying focused
• Managing time under pressure
• Developing a proactive approach to short, medium and long term plans

DAY 2

Managing Yourself

• Investing time and effort in order to achieve more in the future
• Your time management behaviour – preferred working styles
• Personal effectiveness – a guide to self-discipline
• Highlighting personal ‘time-stealers’ and areas of weakness

Managing Others & Meetings

• Managing people managers, colleagues, team members and customers
• Getting more things done through assertive behaviour
• Making the most of meetings as participant or chairperson

Effective Delegation

• The rules of effective delegation – overcoming personal preferences and prejudices
• Using delegation as a means of coordinating the workload of your team/department

Delegation

• Freeing up your time
• Developing staff

Ongoing Self-development

• Reviewing your management of time at regular intervals?
• Overcoming your old habits – maintaining your new standards?

DAY 3

Communicating with Excellence Getting Results

• The Rules of Communication – overcoming personal attitudes. Stereotypes, Prejudices and Beliefs
• Why people do what they do and Influencing for Results

Managing Pressure in the Workplace

• Moving from reactive to proactive
• Working to priorities when everything is urgent
• Taking control through planning and time management
• Managing conflicting demands from more than one person

DAY 4

Understanding Stress and its Causes

• What is stress? – Recognising the physical and behavioural signs, Stress in the mind and body
• What contributes to workplace pressures? – The top ten causes
• The impact of stress on personal performance – the positive and negative effects of stress
• Recognising the signs of stress in ourselves
• Maintaining an effective balance between home and work
• How gaining control of your Mind can reduce or eliminate stress
• The symptoms of short term and long term stress
• Recognizing your individual stress response and that of others
• Learning to recognize your stress level and key stressors
• The major causes of stress at work and at home
• How to develop self belief to overcome stress
• When stress aids performance and when stress detracts from performance

DAY 5

Different Stress and Behavioural Patterns

• Learning behaviour types: passive, aggressive, passive aggressive and assertive
• How conscious and sub-conscious thinking affects behaviour
• Developing self-assertiveness to achieve greater control over stress
• Improving your communication skills to manage aggression, stress and conflict from others

Handling Stress Positively, A Positive Mindset

• Stress handling strategies for you and your team
• Maintaining an effective balance between home and work
• Changing your mindset – seeing the positive side of change in the workplace
• Motivating yourself and others under pressure
• Developing a preventative rather than remedial approach to team problems

How the Mind Focus techniques can reverse negativity into positive action