Managing Multiple Priorities

Core Modules

• Managing time effectively: create your personal time management system, establishing daily routine and good habits

• Balancing decision bases: there are two key decision bases - 'what' and 'when'. Learn to balance these and identify tools to handle any conflict

• Coping with overload: establish sources of overload, set priorities against deadlines, deal with multiple challenges

• Setting achievable goals: set breakthrough SMARTer goals

• Identifying personal focus and Key Result Areas (KRAs): identify your personal mission, break it down into KRAs

• Setting priorities: distinguish important/urgent, make decisions quickly, use creative priority handling techniques

• Working with others: delegate effectively, strategies to reduce interruptions and deal with ‘time bandits’

• Using Covey's matrix: understand how to focus and direct your energies towards high output activities

• Running effective meetings: use de Bono's 6TH framework to improve meetings, ensuring better results and speedier decisions

"This was a brilliant programme with an excellent trainer. I can't believe how much I learnt in just 2 days and the impact it has had on my work so far. It has helped to improve my time management in a very practical way - and reduced my stress levels!"

Runwani Weerasinghe, Press Officer, Breast Cancer Care