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Discover the keys to handling your time effectively and lifting your productivity through this thorough seminar. Learn how to set and reach goals, build realistic boundaries, and sharpen your concentration and efficiency. Take charge of your time and reach greater success across every part of your life.

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  • 2345 Crystal Dr , Arlington, VA
  • 15 hours over 2 sessions

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Class Description

Description

There is enough time in a day. This course will teach you the most effective strategies to manage it.

Do you end most workdays feeling buried under tasks you never got to? Do you struggle to establish clear priorities when everything seems urgent? Do you find yourself constantly busy but somehow still falling short of your most important goals?

If any of that resonates, this time management seminar is exactly what you need. Designed for business professionals who are ready to take genuine control of how they work, this course cuts through generic advice and gets to the root of what actually keeps people stuck: not a lack of hours, but a lack of self-management strategy.

You will learn to identify the personal habits and external forces that are eating your time, develop sustainable approaches to planning and prioritization, and build the focus required to stay on track even when everything around you is pulling in different directions. The course is practical, specific, and immediately applicable from the very first session.

Who Should Attend:

Business professionals at all levels who want greater control of their time, their work approach, and their overall sense of balance and effectiveness.

How You Will Benefit:

  • Set clear, meaningful goals and build reliable systems to accomplish them
  • Establish priorities with confidence and push back on demands that do not align with your most important objectives
  • Identify and systematically eliminate the personal time-wasters that are costing you the most
  • Improve your concentration, reduce distraction, and work with greater efficiency
  • Break the cycles of procrastination and indecision that hold most professionals back
  • Rebuild and sustain your productive energy throughout the workday

What You Will Cover:

  • Diagnosing personal time-wasters and understanding their underlying causes
  • Defining goals tied directly to your professional role and setting meaningful, valid priorities
  • Creating a realistic, productive schedule that reflects your actual capacity
  • Managing self-generated distractions and interruptions from colleagues
  • Developing practical strategies for handling email and digital communication more efficiently
  • Setting boundaries and maintaining a sustainable balance between professional and personal demands
  • Prioritizing activities that matter and letting go of those that do not
  • Crafting your own personal "no" script to protect your time without damaging relationships

Course Outline:

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the core causes of procrastination and indecision in your daily work
  • Pinpoint the personal time-wasters that are having the greatest impact on your productivity
  • Develop stronger concentration habits and sharpen your ability to focus on what matters
  • Build strategies for staying on track and maintaining equilibrium under pressure
  • Increase your overall effectiveness and professional output on a consistent basis

Time Management Is Self-Management

  • Reframe the challenge: shift focus from managing clock time to managing yourself
  • Identify the most common time-wasters across professional environments
  • Assess your personal strengths and development opportunities when it comes to controlling your time

Planning for Results

  • Define meaningful goals based on your actual role and responsibilities
  • Establish priorities that are both important and achievable within your real constraints
  • Build a schedule that is realistic, productive, and sustainable over time
  • Apply a robust planning process for analyzing and reviewing your commitments regularly

When Others Are the Problem

  • Attend meetings with intention and add genuine value when you do
  • Set clear expectations with colleagues, customers, and your manager
  • Manage interruptions from others without damaging working relationships

Building Concentration and Focus

  • Develop strategies that build both productivity and efficiency simultaneously
  • Take a clear-eyed look at multitasking and when it actually helps versus hurts
  • Apply targeted techniques to overcome procrastination and reduce avoidance behavior
  • Manage technological distractions and digital overwhelm proactively

Creating Boundaries and Balance

  • Make deliberate choices about activities that support balance across your professional and personal life
  • Write and rehearse your own personal "no" script for different situations and relationships

Refund Policy

For Classroom, Live Online, Express Skills Courses and Webinar programs, you may transfer to a future session, send someone to take your place, or cancel for a 5% fee up to 23 days prior to your program.

If you provide AMA with less than 23 days’ notice, or fail to attend, you will be liable for the entire program fee.

Programs included in AMA On Demand offerings are not eligible for substitution, transfer, cancellation, return, or refund. We appreciate that this is an important investment for you and your company and would like to accommodate your needs the best we can.

Please email us at [email protected]

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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