Organisational Skills Training Course

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Fee: N135, 000

Duration: 3days

Organising is not just about removing clutter, but also includes planning and prioritising. The ultimate aim of improving your organisational skills is to improve your productivity and reduce wasteful activities.

This course provides effective techniques to help you organise your time and tasks better such as removing distractions, overcoming procrastination, breaking up tasks, creating deadlines, promising rewards, self-disciplining and more.

This extensive training course helps participants to develop essential skills in organising so that they increase their productivity, and reduce waste of their time and resources.

During this training course, participants develop an understanding and use of examining their habits and routines, prioritising, organising the workspace, and make plans to stay organised. It also helps to identify and remove obstacles to organisation and productivity such as procrastination.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

• Remove the clutter
• Place everything in its place
• Write down priorities
• Prioritise tasks
• Use 80/20 rule
• Use a master calendar
• Set realistic deadlines
• Remove or limit time wasters
• Cope with things outside their control
• Use a day planner
• Be consistent
• Use paper and paperless storage
• Organise work area
• Fight procrastination
• Organise inbox
• Use discipline to stay organised

Course Outline

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 1 Getting Started

• Housekeeping Items
• Pre-Assignment Review
• Workshop Objectives
• The Parking Lot
• Action Plan

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 2 Remove the Clutter

• Just Do It
• You Don’t Have to Keep Everything
• Three Boxes: Keep, Donate, and Trash
• A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place
• Case Study

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 3 Prioritise

• Write It Down
• Urgent/Important Matrix
• Divide Tasks
• 80/20 Rule
• Case Study

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 4 Scheduling Your Time

• Have a Master Calendar
• Setting Deadlines
• Remove or Limit the Time Wasters
• Coping With Things Outside of Your Control
• Case Study

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 5 To Do Lists

• Use a Day Planner
• Finish What You Start
• Focus on the Important
• Do Quick Tasks Immediately
• Case Study

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 6

Paper and Paperless Storage

• Find a System that Works for You
• Make It Consistent
• Make It Time Sensitive
• Setting Up Archives
• Case Study

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 7 Organisation in Your Work Area

• Keeping Items Within Arm’s Reach
• Only Have Current Projects on Your Desk
• Arranging Your Drawers
• Organise to Match Your Workflow
• Case Study

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 8 Tools to Fight Procrastination

• Eat That Frog!
• Remove Distractions
• Give Yourself a Reward
• Break Up Large Tasks
• Case Study

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 9 Organising Your Inbox

• Setting Delivery Rules
• Folder and Message Hierarchy
• Deal With Email Right Away
• Flag and Highlight Important Items
• Case Study

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 10 Avoid the Causes of Disorganisation

• Keeping Everything
• Not Being Consistent
• Not Following a Schedule
• Bad Habits
• Case Study

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 11 Discipline is the Key to Stay Organised

• Stay Within Your Systems
• Learn to Say No
• Have Organisation Be Part of Your Life
• Plan for Tomorrow, Today
• Case Study

Organisational Skills Training Course – Lesson 12

Wrapping Up

• Words from the Wise
• Parking Lot
• Lessons Learned
• Completion of Action Plans and Evaluations

About Instructors

Mrs Mary Akinyeye

BSc, MSc, PMP

She is a wonderful, vibrant and virtuous woman who has contributed immensely to the success of many Nigerian graduates as a result of her lecturing...

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