Goal
Strengthen managers’ ability to organize their work, manage their attention and structure their team’s performance to increase day-to-day effectiveness, clarity and collaboration, even in high-pressure environments and with frequent interruptions.
Learning objectives
- Swiftly prioritize and structure their time to reduce work overload, unexpected issues and manage urgent situations.
- Improve their attention by limiting multitasking, interruptions and information overload.
- Support hybrid work by adapting management practices, clarifying expectations and implementing effective routines.
- Integrate concrete, simple and ethical use of artificial intelligence to reduce time spent on low-value-added tasks.
Course delivery
Interactive training delivered in a virtual classroom or in person, combining conceptual input, practical tools, individual exercises and group discussions. The approach promotes anchoring learning in managers’ day-to-day work and immediate application of the tools presented.
Duration
6 hours in-person session or 2 x 3 hours online sessions
Content
Part I
Introduction and icebreaker
- Identify your main current challenge in time and priority management.
Tool 1: Planning: a soft skill and a hard skill
- Planning as a management skill.
- Building clarity, attentional discipline and calm leadership.
- Planning based on priorities rather than a to-do list.
Tool 2: Prioritizing
- Three pillars: Attitude, reflection and action.
- Presentations of various prioritization tools:
- Interruptions and attention management
- Exercise in subgroups:
- Dealing with timewasters
- Saying no:
- a management skill
- Delegating effectively
Part II
Help your team better manage their time
Review of Part 1 and implementation
Tool 3 – Help your team better manage their time
- Main challenge of hybrid work: lack of synchronization.
- Four strategies
Tool 4 – Use artificial intelligence
- AI as a driver for day-to-day effectiveness.
- Best practices and ethical standards for using AI in management.
Summary and action plan
- Identify your strengths, areas for improvement and development priorities.
- Define concrete and measurable short-term courses of action.