Overview: Executive Time Management

Managing focus, energy, & relationships for sustainable high performance

About the Program
Conventional time management strategies focus primarily on tactics and tips. The framework of this program is both tactical and strategic. Moreover, it enables you to develop the awareness, courage, discipline and patience that are at the heart of both effective time management and leadership.

Crafted by an experienced faculty skilled in leadership development, visionary planning, systems thinking, and managing time and workload, its focus is on enabling you to identify the drivers of unsustainable workload, change the way you work, and achieve sustainable results, including:

• More control over your priorities
• More time to meet managerial responsibilities
  
• Increased energy
  
• Greater reliability
  
• Less stress
  
• Increased ability to keep track of tasks, commitments, and information
  
• More efficient use of email

You’ll learn how to:
1. Determine Your Reasons for Change
As a leader, you cast a long shadow. What signals are you broadcasting to others? What are the benefits of changing the way you work and the costs of not changing? How do you make the business case for undertaking the effort that’s required to change your approach to time?

2. Envision How You Want to Spend Your Time
You’ll learn how to become the author of your own choices and cultivate a positive image of what you’d like to accomplish with your time day-to-day, i.e. meeting your most important executive responsibilities, taking care of yourself, and being with important others.

3. Clarify Your Current Reality
Compare your work vision with how you actually spend your time and immediately identify opportunities to bridge the gaps. By surfacing the hidden cultural, organizational and individual pressures that influence your behavior, you will learn to make more conscious choices about beliefs and assumptions that help you achieve what you really want.

4. Identify Support Structures
Support is essential for learning how to change your behavior, manage your time better, and become more balanced as a leader. How you can overcome the natural tendency to go it alone by assembling a support structure for change.

5. Develop Strategies for Managing Time, Energy, Relationships, and Information in a More Sustainable Way
Research shows most successful managers spend their limited time wisely by using high levels of energy and focus. Learn to identify underlying factors that drain your energy and cause you to lose focus and time, and develop strategies and tactics for both creating and sustaining high levels of energy and focus over long periods.

6. Plan Next Steps
We manage time through deeply ingrained habits. To succeed, you must make formal commitments to yourself and others and plan with more intention. Discover the power of doing a few new things well.

7. Learn from Experience
It can be difficult to translate best intentions into action. Before you leave, you’ll identify and learn to resolve the competing commitments that could undermine your efforts to change and make more productive choices moment by moment.