Effective Time Management
Course Description Overview
Time is a form of currency, and the ways you talk about it illustrate its value: people say “Time is money,” and “My time was well spent,” or “It's a waste of time.” Like most professionals, you've probably struggled with managing time effectively. In this course, you will acquire day-to-day time-management tools that will help you more effectively use your time so you can direct your energy towards fulfilling your short- and long-term professional and personal goals.
Your time is a precious and limited resource. Too often, you may feel frustrated that there aren't enough hours in the day to accomplish everything you hope to do. Effective time managers enjoy the satisfaction of directing their talents and energy towards productive, goal-centered activities. By identifying improved time management and organizational skills, you, too, can use your time and energy effectively, focusing your efforts on the activities that will help you reach your goals.
In this course, identify effective time-management strategies, including defining personal and professional goals, establishing priorities, and identifying the tasks that will be critical to achieving those goals. You will create a personal time-management action plan.
You will:
- State your goals.
- Analyze how you are currently allocating your most precious resources: energy and time.
- Identify elements of your personal work style that contribute to your effective use of time.
- Assemble a collection of time-management tools and strategies that you can use to take control of your time.
- Create an action plan for your time-management process and identify ways to evaluate and improve your efforts.
Professionals in a variety of fields who are seeking improved time-management skills, so that they can meet their long-term goals and perform more effectively.
To ensure your success, we recommend you have some level of work experience in any of a variety of organizational settings, and general end-user computer and Internet skills. You may wish to take either of the following United States Career Campus courses or have equivalent knowledge:
- Using Microsoft® Windows® 10
- Microsoft® Office Word 2016: Part 1 (Desktop/Office 365™)
For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:
- 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
- 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
- CD-ROM drive (if installing any software from a CD-ROM)
- Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)
- 1,024 x 768 resolution monitor recommended
- Network cards and cabling for local network access
- Internet access (contact your local network administrator)
- Printer (optional) or an installed printer driver
- Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen
Lesson 1: Defining Goals
Topic A: Define Time Management
Topic B: Describe Your Dreams
Topic C: Identify Regrets
Topic D: State Goals
Lesson 2: Analyzing Energy Allocation
Topic A: Create a Time Log
Topic B: Analyze Tasks
Topic C: Analyze Time Usage
Topic D: Analyze Energy Flow
Lesson 3: Identifying Personal Style
Topic A: Review a Successful Day or Project
Topic B: Analyze Your Preferences
Topic C: Identify Personal Strengths
Topic D: Identify Personal Motivators
Topic E: Reduce Time Wasters
Lesson 4: Assembling the Toolbox
Topic A: Negotiate for Success
Topic B: Delegate Tasks
Topic C: Choose Tools that Work for You
Lesson 5: Creating a Time-Management Action Plan
Topic A: Create the Action Plan
Topic B: Evaluate the Time-Management Action Plan