Meeting Deadlines & Managing Priorities

Meeting Deadlines & Managing Priorities is an intensive one-day course which focuses specifically on the critical time management issues of deadlines, priorities and using personal planning systems to best effect.It also introduces the concept of 'Chronistic Intelligence' and aims to help participants manage their time on a range of differing time horizons across multiple projects and tasks.

Course Membership

All managers, professionals and administrative staff who have some discretion over how to manage their time and want to develop their understanding and skills in meeting deadlines and managing priorities.

Course Objectives

To help participants manage their time and workloads and fulfil their responsibilities in meeting deadlines and managing priorities .

Course Outline

• Emotional & rational bases of priority setting

• Quality, cost and time constraints

• Importance vs urgency

• Prioritising with others in mind

• Making and handling requests

• Personal planning tools - job logs & daily planning

• 'Chronistic Intelligence'

• Adjusting to the unexpected

• Managing multiple projects

• Meeting key responsibilities and objectives

• Handling interruptions

• Personal time management styles and associated pitfalls

Course Methods

ProSeminar's Meeting Deadlines & Managing Priorities offers a highly participative blend of informal lecture, exercises and group discussion.