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Planning and Prioritizing: Increase Productivity and Achieve More

Course Description:

Well, the day is over. Did you complete all the meetings, emails, phone calls and research tasks you wanted to? If not, you are not alone.

Being a manager means lots of catch up. And there never seems to be enough time in the day. However, a few changes to the way you work will help you to get more done, and breathe a little easier.

As a team, department or project manager, you juggle hundreds of tasks each day, and success lies in how well you plan, prioritize and manage those hours.  In fact, planning and prioritizing are at the heart of good time management.. 

CoursE highlights:

This information-packed 75-minute audio conference on CD will help you to: 

• identify goals,
• break them into tasks,
• prioritize to save time, and
• increase productivity. 

Our experts will explain specific methods to help you better manage your day and get your work done with less stress and unnecessary emergencies. You’ll also learn how to: 

• Act not react
• Make the most of the time you have and free up time for mission critical tasks
• Set realistic goals and ‘time to complete’ estimates
• Rid your schedule of time-wasters for a  better balanced schedule
• Recognize the difference between important and urgent priorities and tasks
• Keep track of and meet short and long term projects and deadlines
• Better cope with game changing shifts in priorities
• Manage social media time stealers

Featured Faculty:

Jack Nevison, Co-Founder, Oak Associates, Inc.

Jack Nevison is a co-founder Oak Associates, Inc., and founder and President of New Leaf Project Management. He is the author of six books and numerous articles on computing and management. During the course of his business career, Nevison has built and sold several businesses, managed projects, managed project managers, and served as both an internal and external consultant to Global 1000 companies.

Nevison was a contributor to the original 1996 edition of The PMBOK® Guide. He has designed several interactive games (Herding Cats©, Stays & Days©, and QPM©) to enhance the mastery of PM skills. He speaks and writes regularly on various topics of interest to project managers.

He is a past president of the Mass Bay Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®). Nevison is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College.

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE:

We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund every penny if you're not completely satisfied. No questions asked! It's 100% risk-free!

Pricing:

Your CD recording includes the complete audio conference presentation, audience Q&A and presentation materials.

APPROVED FOR RECERTIFICATION CREDIT:

HRCI - Receive 1.25 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. "The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit."

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