Your Best Year Ever: Managing Your Mission, Yourself, and Your Time January is the traditional time to evaluate how the previous year has gone and how make the coming year even better. This time management workshop will give you principles, strategies and tips for making this your best year ever.
Participants will:
- Review the successes and frustrations of the previous year and forecast the successes and frustrations of the coming year.
- Anchor a Best Year Theme to you overarching mission and purpose.
- Design systems to reach goals for the year.
- Discover how personal mission and purpose statements guide time management.
- Apply Time Log Analysis to answer the questions, “Where does my time go?” and “Is that where I want it to go?”
- Design your ideal schedule and strategize how to carry it out.
- Increase congruence between time use and priorities.
- List and apply time management techniques to home and work.
- Diagnose your time management personality (concentrator vs. multi-tasker) and discover how to fit work life to personality instead trying the other way around.
- Develop time and career management plans that lead to high performance living.
- Eliminate time wasters.
- Examine relationships from a time and satisfaction perspective.
- Develop a plan for negotiating personal and institutional priorities.
- Examine diverse faculty responsibilities and methods for balancing teaching, practice, and scholarly roles.
- Group goals with roles.
- Develop a personal well-being plan that supports a satisfying personal life and a productive work life.
- Combat and embrace procrastination.
- Variables affecting work satisfaction: how to achieve flow and engagement.
- Practice social intelligence skills of clarifying expectations, negotiating differences, finding common ground with colleagues, employers, and family.
- Develop methods for handling interruptions, time wasters, paper work.
- Use focus to take advantage of waiting time, dead time.
- Create the illusion of adding more hours to your week and answer the question, “More time for what?”
- Improve memory and decrease distraction.
- Make lists that matter.
- Dream big but think small.
- Apply time management laws: Grandma’s, Lance’s, Julia’s, Parkinson’s, and Ben’s to personal situations.
- Discover how to create more balance, wellness, and happiness.
- Dismantle work blocks such as creative and writing blocks.
- Outline ways to use institutional resources to find role models, get mentored, and get promoted.
- Get and stay organized.
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