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We have developed an innovative approach to executive time management that helps leaders who are continually challenged to do more with less. This program enables leaders to achieve high levels of sustainable, long-term performance by providing a self-management framework for:
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Sustaining intention and focus over time |
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Making hard tradeoffs |
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Eliminating “phantom workload” – the unnecessary extra work, resulting confusion, worries about quality, and poor performance – inadvertently caused by taking on too much, running late, and struggling to keep up |
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Developing a culture of mutual accountability |
The program meets a need unfulfilled by traditional time management approaches in that it combines action with self-reflection on how we spend our time and why, and tactics with strategy in four different domains where leaders must focus their attention. It integrates tips for working more effectively in a 24/7 world into a proven change model developed by Marilyn Paul in her book It’s Hard to Make a Difference When You Can’t Find Your Keys (Penguin Compass, 2004).
Public Seminars
Executive Time Management is offered as a two-day workshop three times a year by the Center for Management Research. It covers the following topics:
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Making the case for changing the way you work |
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Envisioning how you want to spend your time |
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Clarifying your current reality |
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Identifying support |
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Increasing your effectiveness in managing time to mobilize commitment, think strategically, build relationships, and organize for action |
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Planning to change one behavior |
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Confronting the competing commitments that hinder implementation |
In-house Programs
The program is also available for customization inside organizations. Recent applications include: increasing the ability of a corporate R&D department to make realistic time estimates of its deliverables and meet its commitments to internal customers, enabling a group of high potential leaders to prepare for changes in how they need to manage time when they are promoted, and training public sector executives to manage their time more effectively as leaders.
Executive Coaching
We also work individually with executives whose careers are at risk because of their inability to manage time effectively. Managers learn how to increase their reliability and trustworthiness when making commitments, maintain focus in an increasingly chaotic organizational environment, reduce unnecessary workload, and manage difficult tradeoffs. In sum, they learn to perform at a level that is both more productive and sustainable.
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