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Time Management – Priorities – Tips of the Week

There are multiple tasks commanding your attention.  Identifying your priorities is an essential time management skill to help you work effectively.

Eight ideas to increase your success in focusing on priorities include:

1. Identify a specific deadline for every task you need to complete.  This deadline can be imposed by others or self-imposed.  If a deadline is not communicated; request one.  If need be, negotiate the deadline to ensure it is do-able.
2. Include activities related to larger projects in the above process.
3. Identify the start time required to complete your tasks on time.  Include a buffer for high profile and/or time consuming tasks.
4. Remove tasks that have no deadline i.e. reports that need to be read, articles of interest etc. from your immediate work area.  Store them out of sight.
5. Identify the tasks that need to be completed today…. these are your “A” priorities”.
6. Organize the tasks that need to be started on another day in order of their start date… these are your “B” priorities.
7. Work only on your “A’s” until all of them are complete.
8.  If time permits work on the “B” that next needs to be started.

Our Toronto based time management skills training workshop provides the time management skills essential zero in on the areas that will provide the greatest return.  Participants develop the methods to step out of the states of overwhelm, frustration, disorder, anxiety and lack of control into the state of mastery and satisfaction.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based time management skills training and other communications skills and leadership courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

Leadership – Supervisor – Tip of the Day

Consistently demonstrate the most respected leadership qualities: honesty; decisiveness; leading by example; delegating; recognizing others; being objective; tolerating disagreement.

Our Toronto leadership training workshops provides leadership strategies and techniques to shape your performance as a supervisor or team leader.  The course will assist you to influence others.

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Presentation Skills Training – Tip of the Day

Slow down your breathing so that your whole body becomes relaxed.

Our presentation skills training seminar provides strategies and techniques to ensure that your message achieves results and influence others.  Workshops can be delivered at your location or in our location in Toronto.

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Project Management Training – Tip of the Day  

Projects fail because too many projects going on at one time creating impossible commitments.

Our Toronto based project management skills training workshop provides the project management skills for effective project planning and control.

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Professionalism – Tip of the Day  

Professionalism is more than knowledge.  Demonstrating professionalism requires dressing appropriately.  Formality is a key factor.  Aim to be as well dressed as the as the person you report to.

Our Toronto based professionalism in the workplace training & development course will enable participants to act with an increased level of mature competence. Workshops can be delivered at your location or in our location in Toronto.

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Time Management – Interruptions (Part II)

We are sometimes responsible for inviting others to interrupt us.

Seven ideas to increase your success in reducing invitations to interrupt you include:

1. Remove the “bait” from your work area i.e. sweets for others to share.
2. Be less willing to make small talk.
3. Stop saying – “Drop by any time”
4. Make yourself less accessible by working with your back to the passageway.
5. Don’t hesitate to tell people you’re working on a pressing priority
6. Stop setting a bad example by interrupting others.
7. Walk with a purpose; move quickly to communicate that you are busy and less inviting.

Our Toronto based time management skills training workshop provides the time management skills essential zero in on the areas that will provide the greatest return.  Participants develop the methods to step out of the states of overwhelm, frustration, disorder, anxiety and lack of control into the state of mastery and satisfaction.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based time management skills training and other communications skills and leadership courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

Time Management – Tip of the Day

Time management is really self-management.  Consider how you waste time — social interactions: miscellaneous reading; turning interruptions into opportunities to procrastinate.  Once you know your habits better you can change them.

Our Toronto based time management skills training workshop provides the time management skills essential zero in on the areas that will provide the greatest return.  Participants develop the methods to step out of the states of overwhelm, frustration, disorder, anxiety and lack of control into the state of mastery and satisfaction.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based time management skills course and other communications skills and leadership training programs and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

Assertiveness Skills – Tip of the Day

Negotiate mutually satisfactory solutions.  The key to collaborating with another person successfully is to ask questions.  By involving the other person in a dialogue you’ll create a mutual interest in solving problems.

Our Toronto based assertiveness skills training workshop provides the assertiveness skills essential to getting your ideas, plans and feelings across with confidence and conviction.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based assertiveness skills training and other communications skills courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

Professionalism – Tip of the Day  

Professionalism is more than knowledge.  Demonstrating professionalism requires being able to control emotions.  Remember the ABC’s of feelings. Actions result in consequences based on your beliefs. The formula A+B = C means you can change the consequence of negative emotion by changing your beliefs about an action.

Our Toronto based professionalism in the workplace training & development course will enable participants to act with an increased level of mature competence. Workshops can be delivered at your location or in our location in Toronto.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based professionalism skills training and other management and communication and leadership skills courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.

Project Management Skills – Tip of the Day  

Effectiveproject management requires the application of your knowledge and skills along with specific project management tools and techniques that need to be learned.

Our Toronto based project management skills training workshop provides the project management skills for effective project planning and control.

Contact us today to find out how our Toronto based project management skills training and other management and communication and leadership skills courses and workshops can help you build your professionalism.