Managing time and priorities in the digital age

Training to maximize your efficiency and optimize your priority management to improve your performance and job satisfaction. Do you feel overwhelmed by events, burdened by your workload, emails and tasks? Do you feel like you are constantly putting out fires and are being subjected to other people’s priorities? Learning to manage your time and priorities, in a world where everything is going faster and faster and pressure is constantly increasing, is possible. Maximize your efficiency and optimize your priority management proactively in order to improve your performance and job satisfaction. In this experiential workshop, we will share theory, concepts, tips and tricks, as well as Edgenda/AFI Expertise’s best ideas. Team brainstorming and creating a concrete game plan will make it easier for you to take ownership of the content in your reality.

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  • Duration: 1 day
  • Regular price: $485
  • Preferential price: $415

Course outline

Duration : 1 day

©AFI par Edgenda inc.

Audience

Professionals and all managers

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Objectives

  • Develop better reflexes to manage your emails
  • Know your weaknesses and those of your close associates in order to be more effective
  • Learn how to demystify emergencies and plan for them

Teaching method

Presentations - Demos

Contents

  • Choosing priorities and tasks with high added value to work on
  • Controlling interruptions, staying focused and on track
  • Organizing activities in a balanced way
  • Time is not managed, it is consumed
  • Consuming time in complex world (VUCA world)
  • The 5 types of time management personalities
  • The 2 poles for optimizing your relationship with time
  • The 9 time management skills
  • Demystifying 3 essential notions: urgent, important and priority
  • Understanding the risks associated with scattering and silo work
  • Centralizing and optimizing your tasks management
  • Flow theory (concentration and attention cycles)
  • Behaviours of a person well skilled in time management
  • PODC – still relevant
  • Defining your WHY, your values and giving meaning to your work
  • Defining and aligning my objectives with those of my team and the organization
  • Setting me PIRAT objectives
  • The secrets of short, medium and long-term planning
  • How to plan your year, your shift, your week, your day
  • Learning to turn a goal into activities
  • Balancing and conciliating your work and your family life
  • Pareto's Law (80-20)
  • Controlling Interruptions
  • Minimizing time wasters
  • Dealing with the unexpected

Surround yourself with the best

Kathleen Sears
Kathleen Sears
Trainer, Coach, Leadership Consultant
A trainer, coach, and senior consultant for over 20 years, Kathleen Sears has solid experience in the implementation and delivery of training programs and as a training and organizational development coach. As a bilingual trainer at AFI Expertise, she has trained several thousand people primarily in management skills development, leadership, communication, and customer service.
Manon Blondin
Manon Blondin
Trainer
Passionate and dynamic, Manon Blondin works as a consultant in the field of management and change through coaching, training, conferences, strategic consulting and communication. She is a member of the Order of Chartered Human Resources Advisors (CRHA) and the International Federation of COaches of Quebec (ICF), where she obtained her PCC certification.
Florence Jacob
Florence Jacob
Trainer
As a holder of a double bachelor's and master's degree in management from HEC Montréal, Florence has accumulated nearly 10 years of experience as a consultant and specialist in organizational development. Her career in parapublic, public and private organizations has allowed her to perfect her expertise in coaching and leader development. Promoting knowledge sharing and managerial skills transferring is at the heart of her approaches as a consultant. Florence is known as a committed partner. Her support type is dynamic, structured and oriented towards an opened and transparent communication.
Pierre-Edouard Brondel
Pierre-Edouard Brondel
Trainer and Desktop Application Consultant
Renowned as an educational expert in the IT and office technology field who has accumulated more than 25 years of experience, Pierre-Édouard is first and foremost passionate about human capital.