Time Management and Stress Control

Training Overview

This Time Management and Stress Control Training in Dubai looks at the causes of time and stress management difficulties and offers concrete and practical solutions. By managing their time more effectively, participants will be able to make a greater contribution to your organization’s goals – they will be more effective at work but will still be able to achieve a sensible work / life balance.

Improving time management and controlling stress is a core skill for anyone wishing to work efficiently and establish good habits. Implementing their action plan will help them to reduce stress and enhance their productivity, and:

  • Gain control of the day and tasks – reducing stress.
  • Understand when you work best – increasing your effectiveness.
  • Manage priorities and workloads – improving productivity, meeting and achieving goals.
  • Stay healthy – in mind and body, even when under pressure.
  • Develop a range of practical and usable tools and techniques – to help you to manage your time more efficiently.

Training objectives

As a result of this course, participants will:

  • Have a clear understanding of stress and what causes it
  • Be able to highly effective personal strategies, plans and techniques to deal with stress
  • Gain a clearer picture of their priorities, both in work and outside
  • Learn how to link their short, medium and long-term goals
  • Be able to manage and control interruptions and behave more assertively
  • Make an informed choice about the best diary system for them and be able to apply simple, practical principles of diary management
  • Make better use of their time by making fewer lists but doing more of the things on them!

Course Outline

Stress in an Organizational Context

  • Where does stress come from?
  • What is the impact on your organisation?
  • Trends in recent years

The Psychology and Physiology of Stress

  • What is pressure; what is stress?
  • Causes and effects of pressure and stress
  • Recognising and reducing my sources of stress
  • The pressure management habit
  • Signs and symptoms of stress
  • The 4 way stress model

Strategies, plans and Techniques for Coping with Stress

  • The communication file structure
  • Circles of influence and circles of concern
  • SMARTER objective setting
  • The importance of achieving control

Goal Setting at Work and at Home

  • Balancing work and home
  • Building a goal tree
  • Achieving the right balance of progress and maintenance
  • Parkinson’s law

Time stealers & external factors

  • Effective meeting structures
  • Managing interruptions
  • 30 ways to make more time
  • Effective Diary Management
  • Prioritising your work
  • Scheduling techniques
  • Using your diary to say ‘no!

Fundamentals of Time Management

  • Understanding the principles of productivity
  • Avoiding the pitfalls of multitasking
  • Practicing mind-clearing techniques
  • Saying no with tact
  • Mastering the What, When, Where processing system
  • Processing email vs. checking email
  • Maintaining productivity gains
  • Urgent and important
  • Pareto’s Rule
  • Balancing work and home
  • Building a goal tree
  • Achieving the right balance of progress and maintenance
  • Parkinson’s law

Stress in an organizational context

  • Where does stress come from?
  • What is the impact on your organisation?
  • Trends in recent years
  • The psychology and physiology of stress
  • What is pressure; what is stress?
  • Causes and effects of pressure and stress
  • Recognising and reducing my sources of stress
  • The pressure management habit
  • The 4 way stress model

Strategies, Plans and Techniques for Stress Management

  • The communication file structure
  • Circles of influence and circles of concern
  • SMARTER objective setting
  • The importance of achieving control

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