Goal Setting and Workplace Efficiency

Goal Setting and Workplace Efficiency Courseware (TIM101)

This course teaches students valuable skills and strategies to manage their time, optimize their use of productivity tools, and set and achieve SMART goals. By learning to respect their own time and others', students will be able to use time management skills and techniques to improve their productivity and work-life balance. The course also covers Microsoft Outlook as a powerful time management tool, the importance of goal setting, and strategies for creating and implementing SMART goals. Additionally, students will learn to build a support system to help them stay on track, and develop habits for sustaining goal setting and success.

Publisher: Webucator

Benefits

  1. Time management: Learn techniques to respect your time and others', create practical to-do lists, and manage interruptions effectively.
  2. Microsoft Outlook: Discover how to optimize scheduling tools, manage emails efficiently, and use other features to stay organized and productive.
  3. Goal setting: Understand the importance of goal setting and learn how to create and implement SMART goals for personal and professional growth.
  4. Support system: Build a support system by identifying the right tools, finding supporters, and leveraging your social network for encouragement and accountability.
  5. Sustaining success: Develop habits for persistence, flexibility, and growth, and learn to celebrate small wins and make goal setting a habit.

Outline

  1. Become an Expert in Time Management
    1. Respect Your Time
      1. Realize That Time Is Money
      2. How Much Is Your Time Worth?
      3. Develop a "My Time Is Money" Mind-set
    2. Do More by Doing Less
    3. Respect Others' Time
      1. Don't Keep Others Waiting
      2. Check if an Interruption Is Timely
      3. Spend Your Time Doing What You Truly Love to Do
      4. Personality and Time Management
    4. Time Management Skills
      1. Create Practical To-do Lists
      2. Manage Interruptions
    5. Ways to Circumvent Interruptions
      1. Let Your Phone Take the Message
      2. Check Your Email at Designated Times
      3. Handle People Interruptions
      4. Schedule Difficult and Boring Tasks
    6. Goals as a Motivational Tool for Time Management
  2. Microsoft Outlook and Time Management
    1. Optimize Scheduling Tools
    2. Using the Inbox to Create Task Lists in Outlook
    3. Use Your Tasks as Work Lists
    4. Creating a Calendar Item from an Inbox Email
    5. Checking Email at Designated Times
    6. The Under-Two-Minute Rule
    7. Setting Up Rules
    8. Creating Folders and Archiving Email
      1. Creating Major and Subfolders
    9. Using Auto-archive
    10. Create a Distribution List
    11. Email Etiquette and Efficiency Tips
    12. Do's When Writing Email
  3. Understanding the Importance of Goal Setting
    1. Start Where You Are Planted
      1. Start Where You Are
      2. Have a Peer Role Model
      3. Have the Right Kind of Cheerleader
      4. Handle Stress Better
      5. Have Small "Wins"
    2. Why Goal Setting Is Important
      1. It Will Help You Find Purpose and Direction
      2. You Will Be More Productive with Your Time
      3. You Will Get Used to the Feeling of Success
      4. Optimism Will Become Second Nature to You
      5. Personal and Professional Growth Will Become Your Mantra
  4. Creating a Strategy to Achieve Smart Goals
    1. Understand What a SMART Goal Is
      • Specific
      • Measurable
      • Attainable
      • Relevant
      • Checking if Your Goal Is Relevant
      • Time Bound
    2. Identify the Right Tools for Goal Setting
  5. Implementing by Building a Support System
    1. How to Find Supporters
    2. Understand Your Strengths and Weaknesses
      1. Identify Skills You Need
    3. Different Types of Supporters
      1. Supporters at Work
      2. Professional Supporters
      3. Support Groups
    4. Turn Your Social Network into Your Cheerleading Network
      1. Being Selective
      2. Whom to Avoid
      3. Sharing Your Goals
      4. Make Yourself Accountable
  6. Sustaining Goal Setting for Success
    1. Persistence
    2. Don't Give up at the First Sign of Difficulty
      1. Be Persistent in Taking Small Steps
      2. Recover and Recuperate
    3. Flexibility
      1. Failure Is Learning
    4. Changing Your Approach
    5. Celebrating Small Wins
    6. Grow Where You Are Planted
      1. Believe in Yourself
    7. Make Goal Setting a Habit

Required Prerequisites

None

License

Length: 1 day | $35.00 per copy

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