Time & Stress Management

Course details

Objectives:

• Identify the types and causes of stress
• Understand the body’s response to stress
• Learn methods to reduce stress
• Discover strategies for managing stress
• Gain an understanding of where our time is spent
• Develop the mindset to overcome time management obstacles and work more efficiently
• Identify tools to plan, organize, and manage our time
• Leverage our time and increase productivity by reducing stress and working smarter, not harder
• Plan and conduct effective meetings

Outline

Module 1: Identify the types and causes of stress

• Examine the difference types of stress
• Identify the stress in our lives
• Learn how stress effects us emotionally and physically
• Understand the impact of stress on business

Module 2: Understand the body’s response to stress

• Learn strategies for reducing your body’s reaction stress
• Increase time management skills to decrease stress
• Develop strategies for controlling the workplace stress

Module 3: Learn Methods to reduce stress

• Learn to create a less stressful, more positive work environment
• Discover healthy ways to manage the emotional and physical effects of stress
• Develop and personal action plan for managing work place stress

Module 4: Gain an understanding of where our time is spent

• Gain perspective by reviewing the current business reality, the speed of change, and the Pareto Principle
• Review the components of, and obstacles to, effective time management 
• Understand and learn to monitor our work habits
• Identify our personal multiple demands and distractions

Module 5: Develop the mindset to overcome time management obstacles and work more efficiently

• Learn principles for effective time management
• Understand why we procrastinate and ways to use procrastination to out advantage
• Deal with stress by working smarter instead of harder

Module 6: Identify tools to plan, organize, and manage our time

• Prioritize the multiple demands on our time
• Gain tools for getting organized
• Eliminate behaviors that inhibit productivity
• Review a process for win-win delegation
• Manage files, e-mail, and phone calls more effectively

Module 7: Plan and conduct effective meeting

• Review the obstacles to conducting effective meetings
• Learn to structure and plan meetings based on the purpose if the meeting
• Identify tips and tools to conducting efficient meetings