Time Management
Class Outline:
Description:
This course teaches students the fundamentals of time management. Students will learn how to evaluate the use of time, identify goals and set priorities, develop an overall time management plan, discuss the Pareto principle, assign a price to time, conduct a time audit, and correctly identify and control poor time management personality types. Course activities also cover managing their time to increase their productivity, developing a daily plan, managing technology, and saying "no" to doing too much. Students will also learn how to handle e-mail, the Internet, the telephone, personal interactions, and paperwork to productively use their time.
Table Of Contents:
Unit 1: Understand time
Topic A: Principles of time management
Topic B: Productivity cycles
Topic C: Set goals and priorities
Unit 2: Time management plan
Topic A: Identify a time management plan
Topic B: Daily plan
Unit 3: Effective time utilization
Topic A: Technology
Topic B: Time wastage
Unit 4: Productivity
Topic A: Importance of productivity
Topic B: Personal time wasters
Topic C: Saying No
Unit 5: Control information overload
Topic A: Causes of information overload
Topic B: Screening
Topic C: Create files and organize the office
Topic D: Communication