Training Course Syllabus:

Time and Project Management for Administrative Professionals - Administrative Professionals Training Seminar

Program Description:

Gain control over all of the projects, priorities, and deadlines that take up your time and energy!

Your job can be overwhelming. You’re responsible for tracking multiple schedules and calendars, juggling conflicting priority lists, and dealing with people with a wide variety of personalities and positions. And you need to do it all while being prepared to handle constant interruptions with confidence and authority!

It’s hectic and stressful and requires a very specific set of skills!

Fortunately, there are tools that can make it easier — tools that you’ll learn when you attend Time and Project Management for Administrative Professionals. When you become more effective at managing your time and projects, you’ll become more productive, and less stressed — and you’ll increase your reputation and respect in the office!

Experience the Power of Live Seminar Training

You’ll get your questions answered by experts with real-world experience. Your trainer’s expertise is at your disposal! It’s a unique opportunity to ask specific questions and get practical advice about the scenarios you actually encounter every day.

You can take advantage of shared experiences and learning. You’ll be surrounded by other administrative professionals, all sharing their questions, experiences, challenges, and solutions. It’s a great way to discover how to handle situations that haven’t occurred for you yet — but could!

You’ll take part in practical, discussion-based learning. Exercises, group discussions, and brainstorming sessions are a feature of all of our courses — and that makes the material fun to learn and easy to retain!

There are lots of ways to learn in today’s world — but nothing compares to live training experience.
 

Time and Project Management for Administrative Professionals Agenda:

Effectively Managing Projects and Priorities

• Powerful planning techniques guaranteed to boost your productivity
• 5 techniques that America’s top achievers use to get on track and stay on target
• Goal-setting how-tos for gaining control of your time, your projects, and your priorities
• How to make sure that your boss’s priorities are being met
• Prioritizing multiple projects from multiple people

The Keys to Getting and Staying on Track

• Tips for getting projects on the right track so you don’t get sidetracked
• The secret to making your to-do list work for you instead of against you
• A step-by-step plan of attack for turning piles into files

Effectively Supporting Multiple Bosses

• Practical strategies for handling multiple calendars and schedules without missing a beat
• Scheduling time to meet the needs of multiple bosses
• Developing a priority system that works for you – and your bosses – and not against them
• Handling mixed messages – what to do when your bosses’ directions conflict

Time-Management Tools and Strategies

• 5 time-wise habits that top achievers share
• Identifying your greatest time-wasters – and making a plan to eliminate them
• Discovering your daily peak productivity time and how to make the most of it
• Deadlines 101: tips for assessing how long a project will really take

The People Side of Project Management

• Respect: the key to working with people of all personalities and positions
• Prevent mixed messages with powerful communication techniques
• Techniques for delegating without authority
• How to project confidence, credibility, and authority in any situation
• Dealing effectively with people who waste your time and energy

Stress Relievers for When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed

• Quickly refocusing in the midst of multiple or frequent interruptions
• Easy at-your-desk stress-relieving techniques you can do anytime
• Tips to staying cool, calm, and collected – even under pressure

CREDITS:

All program levels are basic and the delivery method is Group-Live. There are no prerequisites or advance preparation required. Rockhurst University Continuing Education Center, Inc. will offer continuing education credit that may be recognized by the customer’s professional board. Credits are issued in accordance to the guidelines set forth by NASBA. The recommended CPE awarded for each program are 7, the appropriate measure of credit is fifty (50) minute contact hours. Introductions, breaks, and viewing exhibits are not included in the calculation of contact hours.

Please note that Continuing Education Credit approval is at the discretion of your licensing board; not all seminar topics are approved by all boards. Contact your licensing board or agency for specific information relating to your profession.

SEMINAR HOURS:

Seminar Check-In:  8:30AM  Seminar Program:  9:00AM - 4:00PM

Seminar Summary:

If you ever feel like you just can't get it all done ... discover how much easier your life can be when you practice these strategies (see full course description)

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