Time Management Mastery

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Learn techniques to manage your time, delegate, say “no,” and be more efficient. Balance your limited supply of time with the overwhelming demands that are placed on you every day.

Duration: 2 hours (Approximately 80 minutes of video lessons and 40 minutes of exercises)

Success doesn’t happen because one person has more time than another. Every one of us has 24 hours a day to use as we choose. The question is whether or not we use that time effectively. Individuals who enjoy success in their personal and professional lives follow strategies to guide the choices they make each day. They have mastered the ability to manage their time instead of letting time manage their lives.

This course provides you approaches and techniques designed to help you manage your time and achieve the success you desire and deserve. This course explains how to balance your limited supply of time with the overwhelming demands that are placed on you every day. You’ll learn these concepts through the exploration of a simple supply and demand model.

This course covers techniques to:

  • Take responsibility for what you choose to do with your time
  • Protect and defend your time
  • Stop saying “yes” to everything and instead learn how to say “no”
  • Delegate successfully
  • Eliminate or have less frequent meetings
  • Lessen the amount of time dedicated to time wasters like email
  • Time block to protect time on your calendar
  • Use prioritization and focus to drive productivity
  • Organize, prioritize, and execute against your task list
  • Effectively work from home by maintaining boundaries and routines

The course consists of instructor-introduced concepts, practical application exercises, and supporting materials. The course includes:

  • Extensive instructor videos to guide you through the content
  • A downloadable course guide of slides to help you follow the instruction
  • A downloadable workbook to apply the method as you take the course
  • Exercises, quizzes, and case examples to help you apply these methods as you learn them

The target audience for this course consists of anyone who’s looking to regain control of their schedules, tame their inboxes, and be more productive at work.  The value of this course to the participants and to the organization as a whole are:

  • Better prioritization focused on the most important tasks
  • Protected time so others can’t waste it or take it
  • More effective email management
  • Fewer meetings that limit productivity
  • Decreased amount of workload and stress
  • More available time through delegation
  • Increased efficiency and quality of work
  • Improved productivity and output for your team
  • Increased capacity to take on larger responsibilities

Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. He is an internationally recognized author, trainer, speaker, and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, strategy, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding thoughtLEADERS, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of three books: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Mike is also one of the most popular authors on LinkedIn Learning where he has published 30 courses that have been viewed millions of times by learners from around the world.

David McNeill is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. His approach to development is built on 30 years of experience managing a diversified mix of businesses and serving in a wide range of leadership and managerial roles. His broad spectrum of experience includes CEO/President for mid-market private and public companies, consultant, Managing Director and Operating Partner for private equity funds, start-up CEO, coach and trainer. He’s worked for leading organizations including IBM, Coca-Cola, Bain & Company, and TPG Capital. He is a graduate of Auburn University and has an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill.

 

Building Personal Resilience

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Build the habits and learn the behaviors required to manage stress, deal with adversity, and maintain your physical and mental wellbeing. Personal resilience is a key to long-term success.

Duration: 2 hours (Approximately 60 minutes of video lessons and 60 minutes of exercises)

Do you want to increase your ability to navigate stressful situations and bounce back? Do you want to manage your emotions so they don’t control you? Resilient people have an increased ability to deal with challenging situations and serve as change agents. They understand the tools to improve professional and personal endurance, resulting in more stable leadership and better decision making. Resilient people improve morale by decreasing the stress and frustration around them. Ultimately, they have better physical and mental health.

This course covers how to:

  • Respond to unexpected change with confidence and flexibility
  • Challenge the beliefs and assumptions that drive your decisions and actions
  • Re-tool your thinking to support resilience

The course consists of instructor-introduced concepts, practical application exercises, and supporting materials. The course includes:

  • Extensive instructor videos to guide you through the content
  • A downloadable course guide of slides to help you follow the instruction
  • A downloadable workbook to apply these methods as you take the course
  • Exercises, quizzes, and case examples to help you apply these methods as you learn them

The target audience for this course consists of individuals at all levels within the organization who want to improve performance and build and sustain an increased sense of wellbeing. The value of this course to the participants and the organization as a whole are:

  • An improved ability to deal with challenging situations
  • Tools to improve professional and personal endurance resulting in more stable leadership and better decision making
  • Improved morale arising from decreased stress and frustration

Maureen Metcalf is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. She brings more than 20 years of business experience to support people’s leadership and organizational success. She is the author of multiple leadership books, including The Innovative Leadership Fieldbook – a leading text for managers, executives and individual contributors providing a combination of well-researched theory with practical business case studies. She also designs and teaches MBA classes in leadership and organizational transformation. Maureen focuses on teaching others how to identify and best use their individual leadership style and abilities with specific focus on Level 5 Leaders.

 

Building Leadership Resilience

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Prepare your body and brain to be ready for and recover from your biggest challenges. Build approaches for overcoming stress, managing reactions to difficult events, and leading more effectively.

Duration: 2 hours (Approximately 60 minutes of video lessons and 60 minutes of exercises)

Do you know what to do when stress takes over? Do you know how to focus in stressful times? The resilient leader can bounce back from the difficult moments and bad days. The resilient leader knows which thought patterns and habits prevent feeling overwhelmed. And, when burnout happens, the resilient leader takes the feeling seriously and changes the type and volume of work they do for a time so recovery is possible.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Recognize how your brain functions most effectively under stress
  • Identify how you step back under pressure
  • Capture or build memory files that allow focus in all conditions
  • Renew your commitment to wellness

The course consists of instructor-introduced concepts, practical application exercises, and supporting materials. The course includes:

  • Extensive instructor videos to guide you through the content
  • A downloadable course guide of slides to help you follow the instruction
  • A downloadable workbook to apply the method as you take the course
  • Exercises, quizzes, and case examples to help you apply these methods as you learn them

The target audience for this course consists of individuals in executive and team leadership roles and those who want to improve performance and to rise in level. The value of this course to the participants and to the organization as a whole are:

  • Improved ability to measure and manage stress
  • Ability to recognize triggers and deal with them productively
  • Awareness and use of essential brain health habits
  • Better focus in stressful times
  • Clear definition of values, goals, and commitments
  • Creation of a plan for a better year ahead

Jon Wortmann is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. He is an executive coach, trainer, and best-selling author of five books including Hijacked by Your Brain and Mindfulness is Sublime. He has delivered over 3,000 public workshops and trainings across a variety of industry sectors. In addition to corporate teams, he is the leadership trainer in multiple towns and school districts in New England. His writing has been featured in Fast Company, Psychology Today, O Magazine, and Elle. A graduate of Carleton College and Harvard University, he also coaches golfers in the NCAA and on the PGA Tour.