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This GetAhead in Time Management accelerated training course will give you first class time management skills within 5-hours of interactive study. Having completed this course, you will be able to control the vicious circle of time-pressure and stress; allowing you to make the most effective use of your time, energy and talents. You will learn how to apply an array of proven time-saving techniques, including: urgency & importance analysis classification, task/time optimization and a variety of effective decision making strategies. Don’t take our word for it – see customer comments
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"written for anyone
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... Feel that there aren't enough hours in the day? Spend too many hours at work, getting too little done? Put your work before your physical well-being? Spend too much time in meetings and discussions? Fail to achieve your goals because you are too busy to set any? |
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Tackle
the Time Crunch Now! This Time Management self-development program will help you take on your biggest enemy - time crunch. In this fast-moving world, organizing and managing your time is a big challenge. This course explains how to meet and conquer the time challenge once and for all. Its groundbreaking "personalized" approach helps you uncover your own strengths & weaknesses to develop a time-management system that suits your needs. |
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Learn how to: Identify and apply proven techniques for dealing with stress and overload and how to optimize your working time in a multi-task environment. For those with seniority, the course also contains detailed training in how to overcome the reluctance to delegate, and how to decide which tasks are suitable for delegation and the art of delegating effectively. This course will enable you to develop a time management approach optimized for the precise requirements of your personality and job. |
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UK Customers, please visit our UK distributor website - www.getahead.uk.com
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| This Time Management self-development program is equivalent to a two-day instructor led course and is made up of self contained sections, each representing approximately 15 minutes of training. This gives you the flexibility to either undertake intensive study or to fit your training into a busy work schedule. |
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| Study Area 1 - Introduction | |
| Understanding Time Management - Explains the attributes needed for effective time management, and the benefits of beginning with a limited range of tactics, before extending these into an overall time management strategy. | |
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| Study Area 2 - Time Management Principles | |
| Identifying Time Loss - Explains the importance of carrying out an objective review of how you currently spend your time and identifying what proportion of it is spent in areas that are not essential to achieving your goals. | |
| Urgency and Importance - Describes how to use an urgency/importance grid to classify the tasks that you currently perform, and how to optimise the amount of time that you spend on each type of task. | |
| Effective Decision Making - Describes a variety of techniques that can contribute to more effective decision making. | |
| Setting Your Goals - Discusses adopting a proactive approach in order to anticipate events and be in a position to identify and define your goals clearly. | |
| Defining Your Objectives - Explains how to analyze your goals to define a series of objectives and the need to rank objectives in order to identify the means and actions needed to achieve them. | |
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| Study Area 3 - Time Saving Techniques | |
| Dealing With Interruptions - Explains how to evaluate what an interruption represents as a demand on your time and how to deal with non-urgent interruptions in a polite but effective way. | |
| Knowing When to Delegate - Explains how to overcome the reluctance to delegate, and how to decide which tasks are suitable for delegation. | |
| Delegating Effectively - Details the practical aspects of delegating work, the importance of providing ongoing support and feedback, and the need to evaluate the outcome and apply any lessons learned when delegating work in the future. | |
| Managing Incoming Calls - Describes how to screen your incoming calls when you don't want to be interrupted, and a variety of tactics for keeping incoming telephone calls as short as possible. | |
| Managing Outbound Calls - Explains the use of an outgoing call log to help plan and structure your calls, and an efficient time management approach to making outgoing calls. | |
| Organizing Your Workspace - Explains how to deal with incoming paperwork in an efficient way, and how to identify manual and electronic filing systems that meet the needs of the way you work. | |
| Communicating Effectively - Discusses various time saving techniques that you can use to improve your efficiency with regard to written communications. These include: speed-reading, business letters and email. | |
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| Study Area 4 - Dealing With Stress | |
| Understanding Overload - Describes the most common sources of work-related stress, and provides an objective assessment of the extent to which you may be suffering from overload at work. | |
| Negotiating Your Workload - The inability to say 'no' to requests can be a significant contributor to stress and overload. This section explains how to decline requests when it is appropriate to do so. | |
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| Study Area 5 - Practical Time Planning | |
| Planning Your Day - Explains how to use a planner or scheduler, to plan your tasks according to your workload and performance cycle. | |
| Using Activity Networks - Describes activity networks, which have become established as one of the most popular resource planning techniques available. | |
| Critical Path Analysis - Shows how to identify the critical path within any network of activities and how to calculate the total float and the free float available. | |
| Effective Resource Planning - Describes resource planning, which is concerned with the effective scheduling of all of the resources available in order to deliver the outputs required. | |
| Preparing Planning Diagrams - Discusses the various ways that resource planning information can be summarized for presentation to senior management. | |
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| This Time Management self-development program is available in the following formats... | |
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eBook Instant Download - Only $14 This 157 page eBook is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format and is fully compatible with all Windows PC’s, laptops, notebooks and PDA’s. It is printer friendly – both color and mono. Simply place an online order and you will immediately receive a confirmation email/receipt containing a download link. Once downloaded this eBook will provide you with a lifelong training resource. To read more about GetAhead eBooks click here. |
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Multimedia CD-Rom
- Only $39 This 5-hour multimedia CD-Rom training course will run on any multimedia PC and is presented using a combination of specially developed 3D graphics, animation and interactivity. This provides a stimulating one-on-one multimedia learning environment that is packed with interactive exercises, case studies and questions. This CD-Rom will be dispatched to you immediately and will provide you with a lifelong training resource. To read more about GetAhead multimedia CD-Roms click here. |
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eBook &
Multimedia CD-Rom
- Only $49 Why not get the best of both worlds - get the training you need right now (eBook download) and the interactive multimedia experience (CD-Rom). The 157 page eBook is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format and is fully compatible with all Windows PC’s, laptops, notebooks and PDA’s. Simply place an online order and you will immediately receive a confirmation email/receipt containing a download link. The multimedia CD-Rom training course will run on any multimedia PC and is presented using a combination of specially developed 3D graphics, animation and interactivity and will be dispatched to you immediately. |
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| This Time Management eBook represents approximately 5 hours of intensive training and is equivalent to a 2-day instructor led course. It is made up of self contained sections, each representing approximately 15 minutes of training, giving you the flexibility to either undertake intensive study or to fit your training into a busy work schedule. It clearly describes the underlying concepts which are then illustrated using a variety of real-world examples. It also includes exercises, case studies and questions to ensure that you understand and remember all of the key messages. | |
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embedded active ‘Table of Contents’ for easy navigation. This Time Management eBook (approx. 1MB) is in Adobe Acrobat format, if you don't already have the Acrobat Reader click here to download it free. Acrobat now includes the "Read Out Loud" feature - making your eBook a Talking Book. |
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| GetAhead Multimedia CD-Roms | |
| This multimedia CD-Rom represents approximately 5 hours of interactive study and is equivalent to a 2-day instructor led course. It is made up of self contained sections, each representing approximately 15 minutes of training, giving you the flexibility to either undertake intensive study or to fit your training into a busy work schedule. It clearly describes the underlying concepts which are then illustrated using a variety of real-world examples. It also includes fully interactive exercises, case studies and questions to ensure that you understand and remember all of the key messages. | |
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Stimulating Interactivity Every title in the GetAhead series uses a combination of specially developed 3D graphics, animation and interactivity to create a stimulating one-on-one multimedia learning environment. Each course represents 5 hours of intensive training and is equivalent to a 2-day instructor led course. Your own personal coach will guide you through the course, introducing each section, posing questions and summarizing the key learning points. |
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Study All GetAhead courses are modular and are made up of self contained sections, each representing approximately 15 minutes of training. Your progress is recorded each time you use the course, giving you the flexibility to either undertake intensive study or to fit your training into a busy work schedule. |
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In-Depth Content Each GetAhead title has been designed by experts in that subject area. Each course clearly describes the underlying concepts which are then illustrated using a variety of real-world examples. All of the content is fully narrated and includes interactive exercises, case studies and questions to ensure that you understand and remember all of the key messages. |
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Self-Assessment A challenging self test is included with each GetAhead course, to provide you with an accurate appraisal of your performance. Each interactive question includes detailed feedback together with a cumulative score. You can take this test, and repeat any parts of the course as many times as you wish, until you are satisfied with your score and appraisal. |
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