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Organization and Productivity
Overcoming Chaos: How to Manage Multiple Projects, Priorities, and Deadlines 
Multiple demands, conflicting priorities, and impossible deadlines are a way of life for many professionals. It doesn't have to be that way!
If you manage projects, this workshop will help you refocus your energy and regain control over your workday. Take-home worksheets and questionnaires provide tangible tools to help you plan, manage, and track projects while managing multiple priorities. Bring information about a current project with you to practice new skills and tools in a collaborative learning environment. You'll leave this program with renewed energy and personalized tools that will help you get results!
You'll Also Benefit By Learning How To:
- Organize and manage projects from start to finish amid conflicting demands and priorities
- Get a handle on your own habits and preferences and use them to increase your ability to manage multiple projects
- Use QuickPlan Worksheets to boost your effectiveness
- Leverage communication tools (phone, e-mail, voice mail, fax) to reduce interruptions and boost efficiency
- Overcome common barriers to project management effectiveness including procrastination, poor concentration, interruptions, conflicting demands, and last-minute changes
Seminar Agenda:
- "Get Organized" Methods Are Created Equal: Creating a system that works for you
- Staying on "The Path" how to simplify your work life and stick to your projects
- From Start to Finish: Project Planning and Management Tools that Keep You on Track
- Hand-on Practice: Planning Your Project and Preparing for Pitfalls
- Becoming an Artful Juggler: Managing Conflicting Priorities and the People who Present Them
- Managing Projects with and Through Others
For a printer friendly copy of entire agenda
Instructor: Virginia Weber Denny Bio
Schedule:
- Thursday, September 18, 2008 (Course #097CBG) register
- Thursday, April 9, 2009 (Course #097KBD) register
Fee: $349 (includes instruction, seminar manual, lunch, parking and refreshment breaks)
