Managing Multiple Tasks, Priorities and Deadlines Bootcamp

Why Attend

Visions and goals are achieved when tasks are understood, priorities are established and deadlines are properly set. This course is designed to help participants develop the right capabilities to manage tasks, evaluate and establish the right priorities, and schedule activities based on clearly established deadlines. The course covers different methods and techniques to encourage task ownership while coordinating with other team members; it also covers how to influence those around us by properly setting expectations and seeing tasks through to successful completion.

Course Methodology

The course uses self-assessments and a wide mix of business cases that promote healthy discussions around the importance of managing multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities. Participants will benefit from role plays covering workplace challenges related to handling tasks, deadlines and priorities. They will learn how to deal with conflicts that may arise as a result. Interactive team exercises are also used with each team presenting their findings and comments.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Establish a solid foundation for effective and efficient task and self-management
Plan and manage work-related tasks and constraints
Prioritize tasks and related activities and learn how to handle associated stress points
Influence people and improve task outcomes through practical interpersonal skills
Work professionally with task-related changes and associated behaviors

Target Audience

This course targets professionals, from all industries, who want to acquire essential skills to create and develop an effective and efficient workplace environment. It is designed for team leaders, supervisors, managers and section heads who are interested in improving their personal productivity or that of the people they manage or work with, whether on a project or within a department. The course also serves as a solid foundation for those who are keen on assuming a supervisory or managerial role as the next step in their career.

Target Competencies

Self and time management
Goal setting
Scheduling
Task assignment and management
Conflict management
Communication
Motivation
Dealing with change at the individual and organizational levels

Introduction to tasks in a business environment
- Self and task management
- A contextual view of task management
- Task management and the business environment
- Organizational perspective on work accomplishment
- Impact of strategic management on task management
- How organization type influences task management
Task management and importance of planning
- Skills needed to lead and manage tasks
- Dealing with task constraints
- Goals, objectives and tasks
- Integrating scopes, work structures and plans in task assignments
- Managing Tasks and stakeholders
- Task management and risk
Setting priorities and deadlines
- Task management and work
- Planning, scheduling and meeting deadlines
- Task management and the development of priorities
- Effective management of meetings, e-mails, and interruptions
- ‘To Do’ Lists and managing priorities
- Time wasters, procrastination and immediate demands
- Stress and task management
Dealing with people while working on time-sensitive tasks
- Skills needed when assistance is needed
- The four rights of delegation
- Working effectively with others
- Interpersonal skills and task accomplishment
- Impact of interpersonal work styles on task accomplishment
- Being flexible and versatile
- Improving productivity at work
Task management and change
- Techniques to improve task outputs
- Communicating task assignments and associated changes
- Understanding employee behavior when dealing with change
- Dealing with resistance to change
- Critical techniques in managing change
- Personal plans and self-management

2024 Schedule & Fees

Fees

Fees + VAT as applicable

(including coffee breaks and a buffet lunch daily)

Discount Plans & Cancellations Policy

Location & Date

There are no public sessions remaining for the course this year. Please contact us if you wish to have a customized in-house session, or to find out how an additional public session can be scheduled.

Meirc reserves the right to alter dates, content, venue, trainer, and to offer courses in an integrated virtual learning (IVL) format whereby face to face classroom participants and virtual learners participate simultaneously in the same course in an interactive learning experience.

Tax Registration Number: 100239834300003

Overview

Course Methodology

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Establish a solid foundation for effective and efficient task and self-management
Plan and manage work-related tasks and constraints
Prioritize tasks and related activities and learn how to handle associated stress points
Influence people and improve task outcomes through practical interpersonal skills
Work professionally with task-related changes and associated behaviors

Target Audience

Target Competencies

Self and time management
Goal setting
Scheduling
Task assignment and management
Conflict management
Communication
Motivation
Dealing with change at the individual and organizational levels

Course Outline

Introduction to tasks in a business environment
- Self and task management
- A contextual view of task management
- Task management and the business environment
- Organizational perspective on work accomplishment
- Impact of strategic management on task management
- How organization type influences task management
Task management and importance of planning
- Skills needed to lead and manage tasks
- Dealing with task constraints
- Goals, objectives and tasks
- Integrating scopes, work structures and plans in task assignments
- Managing Tasks and stakeholders
- Task management and risk
Setting priorities and deadlines
- Task management and work
- Planning, scheduling and meeting deadlines
- Task management and the development of priorities
- Effective management of meetings, e-mails, and interruptions
- ‘To Do’ Lists and managing priorities
- Time wasters, procrastination and immediate demands
- Stress and task management
Dealing with people while working on time-sensitive tasks
- Skills needed when assistance is needed
- The four rights of delegation
- Working effectively with others
- Interpersonal skills and task accomplishment
- Impact of interpersonal work styles on task accomplishment
- Being flexible and versatile
- Improving productivity at work
Task management and change
- Techniques to improve task outputs
- Communicating task assignments and associated changes
- Understanding employee behavior when dealing with change
- Dealing with resistance to change
- Critical techniques in managing change
- Personal plans and self-management