Fun and Joy At Work

Benefits To You :

The feeling of being overwhelmed by work is more often caused by a disorganized approach than by the amount or difficulty of work. By having critical information readily available to you when you need it, you can increase your ability to manage your time, people and projects. This can only be done more effectively if you match your organizing tools with your work, style and needs. Improve your organizing skills. Integrate what you have to do, want to do and how you function as a person into an efficient and highly flexible control center.

Specifically you will :

Gain insight into yourself and your work.
Develop a personalized organizing system.
Formulate your work strategy.

Outline :

Managing Yourself

Recognize and build your strengths and let your habits serve you.
Minimize the effects of procrastination by being able to identify, understand and develop a process of dealing with this natural human tendency.
Balance the ‘have to' with the ‘would like to'.
Guarantee that ‘things don't fall through the cracks'.
Identify self-defeating attitudes that affect your ability to think clearly.

Organizing Your Tools and Techniques

Develop a mobile control center that is uniquely suited to your workstyle and needs.
To develop understanding and ability to design and implement effective manpower planning and selection processes.
Learn how to make your desk ‘ user friendly '.
Create a personal filing system for yourself in which information and resources (programs, projects, reference material, etc.) can be easily retrieved.
Match your technological tool levels to your work needs.

Planning Your Work Strategy

Experiment with a few critical forms that can aid you in managing multiple projects, supervising a number of people and preparing for meetings.
Integrate them into your system, a method of planning that can be done in 10 to 15 minutes .
Review strategies to help you to delegate with greater control, by having an easy-to-use tracking and follow-up process.
Make sure your real ‘top priorities' don't get lost in the shuffle.
Cast off familiar and comfortable yet unproductive activities.

Time - One Of Your Critical Resources

Distinguish between internally and externally generated time problems.
Consider techniques for controlling outside forces that impact your time, such as telephone, visitors and frequent interruptions .
Build on time management techniques that you have found successful, and integrate them into your personalized management system.
Make time for personal development.
Find hidden time.

Learning Features :

This is a skill-based module. There will be short presentations and exercises. The learning environment is highly interactive between the facilitator and participants themselves. Peer learning from sharing experiences will be strongly encouraged.

Each participant will develop his or her own control center. It is critical for your success in this module that you bring with you key information and resources that you need to have or like to have, at your finger-tips. These include phone list, calendar dairy, special instructions, procedures, schedules, notices, etc. You will be taught to incorporate these items into your personalized center.