Doing More With Less

Training Provided by Learning Technologies, Inc. More than ever, employees are having to do more with less. Today's economic environment is forcing many organizations to cut costs by reducing their workforce. This in turn is requiring individuals to manage multiple priorities and take on new responsibilities. Therefore it's critical that they learn to be more aware of their own priorities and constraints, ask questions and dig deeper to help others clarify exactly what is needed, and keep people informed of priorities, progress, and changes.

Doing More With Less During this program participants will explore tools to:

Focus On What s Important As Well As What s Urgent
Putting first things first does not mean doing what s most urgent, but rather what s most important. It also means keeping the big picture in mind.

Be More Self Aware
Discover how being aware of your specific commitments, deadlines, and stressors can help you manage others requests better and prioritize more effectively. Also, explore how to make sure what you re doing fits into the corporate priorities.

Help Others Clarify Their Objectives
Examine ways of helping those you work with clarify their objectives and focus their requests from the start. Help them test against the corporate goals they will be helping to achieve. Differentiate between their wants and their needs and explore the associated costs.

Ways To Keep Others Informed Along The Way
Explore how keeping people informed can help alleviate potential problems down the road. Make sure you re informing the right people up, down and across, and explore ways to get their buy-in. Use an effective feedback loop so communication is two-way.

Continually Question and Dig Deeper
Practice using effective questioning techniques to dig deeper and make sure all of the issues are outlined early on. Explore deeper level questions that give you the information you need.

Manage Resistance
Explore ways of dealing with resistance more effectively. Set the stage with open dialog, and make sure responsibilities are shared. Keep focused on what will move everyone forward

Learn To Cope With Time Wasters
Share best practices for managing your time and explore ways of dealing with procrastination.

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