Time and Task Management Effectiveness: Working Smarter Every Day
Speaker: Christopher R. DeVany
Speaker Designation: President and CEO at Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide
Speaker: Christopher R. DeVany
Speaker Designation: President and CEO at Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide
Take control of your time...and get control of your entire work day!
The speed of everything has changed. Are your time management skills up to the challenge?
Do you put off more today than you can ever accomplish tomorrow...exhaust yourself by 4:00 p.m. with only a fraction of your work done...see yourself as a decision maker who never gets around to making decisions...dread the next business meeting-or worse, going back to your desk to see what voice mails and emails await you?
If you're doing more and enjoying it less, it's time to get out of the time trap and back to productive management! This presentation gives you practical techniques for controlling time and making it a manageable resource.
• Are you concerned about how much time and productivity your people are wasting?
• What about lost energy, efficiency, and effectiveness, especially because people are overtasked and overburdened?
• Would you like to gain an extra 30 minutes each day?
• Would you like to improve your concentration and increase your efficiency?
If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen, and learn as Chris DeVany leads us all through those important topics, key questions, and answers we all need to be able to address effectively to improve our team members and team’s performance!
By attending, you will understand how to do even more effectively:
• Achieve better results through more effective planning and clarifying objectives
• Delegate effectively and free yourself for bigger tasks
• Set group goals and priorities
• Eliminate the time wasters using tips for effective time management
• Handle interruptions and distractions
• Say no to unreasonable demands
• Redirect your efforts to the most important and valid tasks
• Make sure there is time in the day for you
• Learn time management strategies to improve concentration and increase your efficiency
Self-Evaluation: How Do You Manage Your Time
• Take the Time-Mastery Profile® to identify how you spend your time
• Highlight your strengths and challenges with time
• Identify time-wasters and learn how to avoid them using time-management strategies
• Learn the importance of time management skills
Concentration and Focus
• Learn effective time management skills that will help you complete your tasks at a faster rate
• Discuss how to handle distractions and interruptions—both self- and other-imposed Planning to Succeed
• Refine the planning process and goal-setting system using the SMART technique
Decision Making and Prioritizing
• Align your priorities with your goals for better decision making
• Learn about “the window of opportunity” to determine the most appropriate course of action
Getting Organized
• Learn the principles of organization to eliminate clutter and maintain order and effective filing systems
• Learn to manage your phone, e-mail, and electronic files
Establishing Boundaries to Create Balance
• Learn when to say “yes” and when to say “no”
• Say “yes” to yourself...by saying “no” to others
• Create quiet zones to think, reflect and concentrate
• Build a commitment to your own time-management plan—it’s up to you!
Setting SMART Goals
• SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timely
• What are my roles?
• What weekly goal will I set for each role?
• TOPPS: Task, Objective, Product, Program, Schedule
• TOPICS: Output, Product, Input, Conditions, Standards
• Setting milestones
• Working on the Plan
• CEO
• Senior Vice President
• Vice President
• Executive Director
• Managing Director
• Regional Vice President
• Area Supervisor
• Manager
Chris DeVany is the Founder and President of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle’s clients include government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands, global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, “90 Days to a High-Performance Team”, has been published by McGraw Hill, and is helping thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues. He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster’s International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation. He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
