Why do some people seem to get so much done while others are struggling and falling behind? Don’t we all have 24 hours each day? What would life be like if you had more productive days and fewer that felt out of control? What do you do when the list of things to do is overwhelming and you feel stuck? Time management is a challenge for everyone, even the people who seem to have it all together. Most time management advice seems to center on “make a list of priorities” but even the best list can remain untouched at the end of a day, leaving you thinking, “I was busy all day but I didn’t get anything done.” And then there are those phases of personal stress when you show up for work, force yourself through the day and drag home exhausted physically and spiritually. Rather than managing time, we actually manage tasks, energy, distractions and the tendency to procrastinate. The goal of this session is to help raise awareness of each individual’s personal characteristics to better adapt workloads to strengths and weaknesses. This session won’t solve every problem but it does provide some concrete steps to organizing a more manageable workload, based on the idea that not all steps have to be adopted but each person can implement one or two suggestions that could be game-changers.
Learning Objectives:
Sort and organize tasks based on "must-do, need-to-do and want-to-do" criteria
Identify the impact of energy patterns on your productivity
Better understand how to deal with common distractions, energy drains and procrastination