Managing and Coordinating Training Proactively

Module 1:
Effective Time, Task & Work Planning

Day 1: Our Changing World - personal assessment

• What do I hope to achieve?

• How will I achieve it?

• What has changed in work and life?

• What other changes can we expect?

• How do we manage this?

• What are the implications for me and for others?

• Balancing life and work

Day 2: Why time matters and how your use of time affects others

• How am I using my time?

• What are my time wasters?

• Time logging

• Why do I put things off?

• Ways that other people use time

• Time lines - how do I view time?

• How does my use of time affect others?

Day 3: Work planning and project management

• Work management methods diagnostic

• Pressures on work plans - time, quality, cost

• The planning process

• Planning work in progress

• Analyzing and managing risk

• Contingency planning

• Problem-solving techniques

Day 4: Practical techniques for managing time wasters

• Managing paperwork, real and virtual

• Managing travel

• Managing meetings

• Making the best use of the phone.

• Using the diary - the key time management tool.

• Managing Interruptions

Day 5: Making it all work

• Work planning practical

• Debrief

• Testing your plan

• Analyzing your strengths and needs

• Developing your personal development plan

Module 2:
Goal Setting, Planning & Decision Making

Day 6: Current Status of Setting Goals, Planning and Decision Making

• Introductions

• Course purpose, goals and objectives

• Overview and context of organizational change and the impact on goals, planning and decision making

• Understanding of the current status of the organization, team and personal work

• Review of management processes and skill areas

• Using a planning process to set goals and get work started

Day 7: Importance of Goal Setting and Planning Management

• Integrating goals, scope, work structure and management planning

• Identifying initial resource requirements

• Identifying risk techniques that affect work assignments, priorities and deadlines

• Communication that responds to: who, what where, when, how, why

• Understanding the importance of quality planning in work assignments

Day 8: Setting Priorities and Making Decisions in the Planning Process

• Using planning to ensure task priorities are established

• Planning for time management, scheduling and meeting deadlines

• Integrating the functions into a final work plan

• Improving communications and listening skills

• Planning for delegation responsibility and authority

• Techniques for making good decisions

Day 9: Working with Your Team

• Identifying the skills required to obtain the help of others

• The importance of group skills to achieve team success

• The importance of interpersonal skills in making personal and team decisions

• Empowering the team through delegation and decision making

• The importance of effective communication in team relations

Day 10: Developing Personal and Team Change Action Plans

• Innovation and improvement for personal and team change

• Identification of change processes and human change

• Techniques to set personal and team change goals

• Dealing with people who do not want change

• Developing an action plan for personal and team change