Improving Personal Productivity

Overview Improving Personal Productivity gives employees the skills they need to increase their productivity while decreasing stress levels.

Target Audience Frontline employees

Learning Objectives By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

Improve their personal productivity by eliminating or changing nonproductive behaviors.

Achieve higher levels of efficiency by applying new, more productive work habits.

Competencies Managing Work

Course Content

Open: Learners identify a work habit that inhibits their productivity.

Examining Priorities: Learners discuss criteria for determining priorities and use a tool to evaluate and prioritize their current tasks. A video depicts a sticky situation in which everything is a priority, and learners discuss how to avoid five Priority Pitfalls.

Conquering Procrastination: Learners discuss why people procrastinate and how this appears to others. They create an action plan by applying strategies for overcoming this problem.

Handling Interruptions: A video shows common interruptions, and learners identify their most common ones. They learn techniques to identify ways to avoid or contain interruptions. Each learner completes an action plan for dealing with major interrupters.

Keeping Yourself Motivated: Participants identify demotivating situations on the job and ways to increase their motivation.

Where Do You Go From Here?: Learners develop a plan to avoid slipping back into old, nonproductive behaviors. A self-evaluation helps them identify additional productivity problems.

Who Needs to Take This Course?

1. Do people react to one crisis situation after another instead of working on important long-term tasks?

2. Do employees keep organized and have a plan to keep track of ongoing projects?

3. Are employees less productive because of constant interruptions or tendencies to procrastinate?

Format / Length of Course Format: Instructor led. Length: 3.5 hours

Cost $60 per participant for materials

Required/Needs Based? Aspiring Leaders Track Project Management Track

Prerequisites None

Related Workshops Making Effective Decisions

Pre-Work Required? None

Manager Actions Required Pre-Class:

Talk with your employee about strengths and developmental opportunities related to the competencies.

Relate the information from the course to their job specific responsibilities.

Ask the employee how they believe they will benefit from the workshop.

Post-Class Support:

Have a discussion with the employee about their impression of the workshop.

Help the employee identify situations where they can apply the course content.

Give the employee feedback about how they are demonstrating the behaviors.