Management and Leadership

Setting Goals and Taking Action: Time Management Best Practices

• Traditional Classroom: 1/2-day
• Virtual Instructor-led: One 3-hour session or Two 90-minute sessions

The goal of this course is to build time management and productivity skills that enable you to better achieve meaningful goals aligned with your values.

Target Audience

Individuals who will benefit from this course include anyone who wants to increase their goal-setting and time management skills.

Learning Objectives

• Identify your governing values.
• Write SMART goals that are aligned with your governing values.
• Decompose projects into smaller executable tasks.
• Practice task and goal prioritization using real-world examples.
• Utilize various tools and techniques for planning and managing time.
• Create a personal time management and productivity plan.

Pre-Course Work

• Read: “Stephen Covey’s 4 Quadrants” — from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and answer the related questions (25 min.). This will be provided to participants in advance of the course.

Course Outline

Opening Activities

• Introductions
• Objectives and Learning Goals
• Individual Activity: Identifying Today’s Demands

Who (or What) Drives Your Day?

• Key Principles of Time Management

Defining Values and Setting Goals

• Individual and Group Activity: Identifying Your Governing Values
• Defining SMART Goals
• Class Activity: SMART or Not So Smart?
• Individual Activity: Writing SMART Goals

Identifying Priorities

• Video and Discussion: Identifying Your “Big Rocks”
• Some Reasons Why We Procrastinate
• Individual Activity: Setting Priorities
• Task Decomposition

Time Management Tools and Techniques

• The Eisenhower Matrix
• Individual and Group Activity: Setting Priorities Using the Eisenhower Matrix
• The Pomodoro Technique
• The STING Technique
• Online Time Management and Productivity Tools

Summary and Next Steps

MDV5002 Course Code