Managing Time and Multiple Priorities

Course Length: 1/2 day

We all have the same amount of time each day. The way we elect to spend this time determines our success. Managing Time and Multiple Priorities is a powerful course packed with time-saving ideas that you can use every day of your life. You'll learn the most effective, easy-to- use techniques ever devised to help you stay organized all day. You'll learn strategies to manage time and paperwork that will increase your productivity without working harder or longer. You will learn how to focus on high-payoff activities and eliminate time-wasting behavior and procrastination.

Key Topics

  • Handle changing and conflicting priorities
  • Deal with tight deadlines and stress
  • Finish your daily "to-do" lists
  • Handle inter...ruptions and stop/start situations
  • Meet tight deadlines
  • Overcome procrastination
  • Say "no" tactfully
  • Utilize time management shortcuts
  • Deal with information overload
  • Conquer the e-mail monster
  • Improve your work life balance
  • Handle unexpected job emergencies

Can't take the in-person training? Learn about our online Time Management program.


Reviews

Class is full of practical suggestions and inspiration. Blue Coat Systems, Inc., Sr. Tech Writer
This class is very useful - I can apply the techniques right away. Synopsys, Inc., Applications Engineer
Such a valuable subject. My team would likely double in productivity if the ideas in this class were put in to practice. Cupertino-based Technology Company, UX Designer

Instructors

 Peter Turla

PETER TURLA is listed in Who's Who Worldwide, has appeared on 200 radio and television shows, and is the author of the international best-seller Time Management Made Easy, now available in five languages and distributed in more than 30 countries.

His entertaining presentation style is a unique blend of humor, magic and hard-hitting practical techniques. Once a key member of the successful Apollo moon-rocket design team, Peter developed and applied innovative time-management techniques to solve problems of constantly changing priorities, tight deadlines, stress, stop/start situations and interruptions.

Peter is now president of the National Management Institute. His clients include many Fortune 500 companies. His exciting, innovative ideas about improving productivity have been featured in dozens of publications, including Industry Week, the London World News and USA Today.


 Janet Bailey

JANET BAILEY is a highly rated speaker, coach and award-winning writer on productivity and communication. She has developed creative methods to help leaders focus on the right priorities and has trained hundreds of engineers, sales professionals and managers to communicate clearly and to handle tough, demanding workloads. Her presentations throughout the U.S. and U.K. offer practical, powerful techniques that participants use right away to save time and stay on message.

Her columns and articles on time management, life balance, psychology and career development have appeared in leading publications including Chief Executive, Bottom Line Personal, Robb Report, Health and Reader's Digest. Her entertaining history of San Francisco, The Great San Francisco Trivia & Fact Book, was an Amazon bestseller. As a corporate communications consultant, she has helped clients from a wide variety of industries reach their audiences effectively.

Janet has a degree in journalism and psychology from Stanford University, was an adjunct faculty member at New York University, and has served in leadership roles for the National Speakers Association and the American Society of Journalists and Authors


 MaryAnn Murphy

MARYANN MURPHY is a professional organizer, speaker, and time-management consultant who has spent more than 25 years helping people learn new skills and be more organized. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, and holds a certificate as Specialist in Chronic Disorganization from the Institute for Challenging Disorganization. A former psychotherapist, Maryann has also worked in business and government, and can speak to the challenges of organizing both time and space in a variety of settings. 

Maryann is a member of the National Speakers Association and the American Society for Training and Development. She’s also a Distinguished Toastmaster (the highest earned honor in Toastmasters International) and a member and past Director of Professional Development for NAPO-New England (the National Association of Professional Organizers).

Maryann has appeared on television and radio, and spoken to small groups, large rallies, and everything in between, helping people manage their time as well as their living and work spaces.


Onsite Delivery

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