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Organization and Productivity
Overcoming Chaos: How to Manage Multiple Projects, Priorities, and Deadlines 
Multiple demands, conflicting priorities, and impossible deadlines are a way of life for many professionals. It doesn't have to be that way!
If you manage projects, this workshop will help you refocus your energy and regain control over your workday. Take-home worksheets and questionnaires provide tangible tools to help you plan, manage, and track projects while managing multiple priorities. Bring information about a current project with you to practice new skills and tools in a collaborative learning environment. You'll leave this program with renewed energy and personalized tools that will help you get results!
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Create and implement a personalized priority management system that works.
- Use clear expectations and overarching goals to simplify work and stay true to projects and purposes.
- Manage conflicting priorities.
- Describe how key interpersonal skills contribute to "overcoming chaos."
Agenda
1. Not All "Get Organized" Methods Are Created Equal
• Understanding Your Personal Preferences for Organizing
• Leveraging Your Strengths
2. Staying on "The Path"
• Shifting Focus for Maximum Effectiveness
• Getting a Handle on the Big Picture
• Aligning Mission, Goals and Activities
3. Becoming an Artful Juggler
• Abundance Mentality
• Practical Strategies for Managing Multiple Projects
• Quadrant Thinking
• Out of Chaos: How to Create Free Time Each Day
4. Managing Projects with and Through People
• Reigning in the Chaos Creator
• Clarifying Expectations
• Leveraging Communication Tools
• Delegating Like a Pro
5. Coming Full Circle
• Setting the Climate for Overcoming Chaos
• Next Steps
For a printer friendly copy of entire agenda
Instructor: Virginia Weber Denny Bio
Schedule:
- Thursday, September 17, 2009 (Course #107CBF) register
8:30am - 4:30pm
Fee: $349 (includes instruction, seminar manual, lunch, parking and refreshment breaks)
