Can you stay focused on the important things in spite of urgent demands?

Yes! As a leader, you and your staff members will increase the payoff you get by focusing on using time effectively and efficiently. Studies indicate that most of us waste more than two hours every workday! That would give us over 65 additional workdays each year! Thirteen additional weeks! We do this not because we want to waste it or because we are lazy, but because we are plagued by "time monkeys" that love to eat up time and divert us toward engaging in the urgent things at the expense of attending to the truly important.

We all have the same 24 hours to spend or invest every day of our lives attending to the important rather than the urgent ... minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, year by year ... for a lifetime.

Mastering time initiative is an investment in building a balanced, bountiful, and beneficial life and career. The way you use time is a habit that can be altered. You can eliminate the time traps in your life and use your time to accomplish your top priorities.

You will learn how to ...

• Determine your own values related to the use of time.
• Avoid getting trapped by others' irrelevant, urgent demands that rob time from your important priorities.
• Identify specific, worthwhile, and contributing activities to which you should devote the majority of your time.
• Maximize creative use and minimize abuse of personal discretionary time and time impositions from managers, staff members and your organization.
• Use time tactics to appropriately tame, feed, farm, and assassinate "time monkeys" based on important vs. urgent priorities.
• Eliminate wasted time spent on the telephone.
• Reduce time lost on paperwork and poor paper handling techniques.
• Gain more discretionary time to spend on your priorities and goals.