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Personal Productivity Corporate Training Materials. Module One: Getting Started. Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. Donald Trump.
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Personal Productivity Corporate Training Materials
Module One: Getting Started Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. Donald Trump Most people find that they wish they had more time in a day. This workshop will show participants how to organize their lives and find those hidden moments.
Module Two: Setting SMART Goals Time is the stuff that life is made of. Benjamin Franklin Goal setting is critical to your personal productivity. It can be used in every single area of your life, including financial, physical, personal development, relationships, or even spiritual.
Module Two: Review Questions • Complete this sentence. Goal setting is ____________ to your personal productivity. • Critical • Useful • Meaningless • Soothing • What is the single most important life skill that most people never learn to do properly? • Eat their vegetables • Run a marathon • Setting smart goals • Being on time
Module Two: Review Questions • Goal setting can be used in every single area of your life including physical, personal, spiritual, and ___________. • Educational • Financial • Industrial • Medical • Setting meaningful, ___________________ goals is a great step toward achieving your dreams. • Big • Short-term • Long-term • Impossible
Module Two: Review Questions • Accomplishing short-term ________ can help you accomplish tasks. • Goals • Dreams • Careers • Marriages • What are the three P's? • Peace, pensiveness, persistence • Priorities, purchases, personality • Pension, passiveness, purpose • Positive, personal, possible
Module Two: Review Questions • SMART is an acronym for what words? • Silly, maddening, artistic, realistic, trailblazer • Saturated, melodramatic, animal, redone, trouble • Simple, manageable, alert, reasonable, traceable • Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, timed • Achieving challenging goals requires a lot of __________ energy. • Magic • Kinetic • Exhausting • Mental
Module Two: Review Questions • When you are prioritizing, choose a goal that will have the __________ impact on your life. • Least • Cheapest • Better • Greatest • As we grow and change, our goals should ___________ too. • Change • Disappear • Increase • Decrease
Module Two: Review Questions • Complete this sentence. Goal setting is ____________ to your personal productivity. • Critical • Useful • Meaningless • Soothing • What is the single most important life skill that most people never learn to do properly? • Eat their vegetables • Run a marathon • Setting smart goals • Being on time
Module Two: Review Questions • Goal setting can be used in every single area of your life including physical, personal, spiritual, and ___________. • Educational • Financial • Industrial • Medical • Setting meaningful, ___________________ goals is a great step toward achieving your dreams. • Big • Short-term • Long-term • Impossible
Module Two: Review Questions • Accomplishing short-term ________ can help you accomplish tasks. • Goals • Dreams • Careers • Marriages • What are the three P's? • Peace, pensiveness, persistence • Priorities, purchases, personality • Pension, passiveness, purpose • Positive, personal, possible
Module Two: Review Questions • SMART is an acronym for what words? • Silly, maddening, artistic, realistic, trailblazer • Saturated, melodramatic, animal, redone, trouble • Simple, manageable, alert, reasonable, traceable • Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, timed • Achieving challenging goals requires a lot of __________ energy. • Magic • Kinetic • Exhausting • Mental
Module Two: Review Questions • When you are prioritizing, choose a goal that will have the __________ impact on your life. • Least • Cheapest • Better • Greatest • As we grow and change, our goals should ___________ too. • Change • Disappear • Increase • Decrease
Module Three: The Power of Routines Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn For most people, the word “routine” typically conjures up an image of a boring, repetitive life, with every moment controlled and managed. But with routines, you end up having more energy to spend on the tasks that will bring you closer to your goals.
Module Three: Review Questions • Routines and rituals can actually help _________ the spontaneity and fun in your life. • Increase • Decrease • Sap • Eliminate • Routines allow you to have more __________ to spend on tasks. • Room • Money • Energy • Fun
Module Three: Review Questions • “Any practice regularly performed in a set manner” is a _________. • Accident • Coincidence • Downfall • Routine • Once you establish a routine it can ________________. • Be set in stone • Be difficult • Be modified • Be easy
Module Three: Review Questions • How many steps are there to building a routine? • Three • Five • Tons • One • Which is not one of the three easy steps to building a routine? • Identifying the task • Identifying yourself • Identifying sub-tasks • Identifying time or trigger
Module Three: Review Questions • Sleep, meals, and _____________ form the building blocks of our lives. • Exercise • Irritating • Noise • Distractions • Which can be considered a professional routine? • Do tasks as they come up • Don't worry about organization • Set aside time to check email • Have no plan
Module Three: Review Questions • Which of these is an easy way to simplify your life? • Pay someone to do it • Plan your meals • Use electronic banking • All of the above • Setting up a system for maintaining your task tracking system is an example of what? • Too much work • Laziness • Professional routine • Procrastinating
Module Three: Review Questions • Routines and rituals can actually help _________ the spontaneity and fun in your life. • Increase • Decrease • Sap • Eliminate • Routines allow you to have more __________ to spend on tasks. • Room • Money • Energy • Fun
Module Three: Review Questions • “Any practice regularly performed in a set manner” is a _________. • Accident • Coincidence • Downfall • Routine • Once you establish a routine it can ________________. • Be set in stone • Be difficult • Be modified • Be easy
Module Three: Review Questions • How many steps are there to building a routine? • Three • Five • Tons • One • Which is not one of the three easy steps to building a routine? • Identifying the task • Identifying yourself • Identifying sub-tasks • Identifying time or trigger
Module Three: Review Questions • Sleep, meals, and _____________ form the building blocks of our lives. • Exercise • Irritating • Noise • Distractions • Which can be considered a professional routine? • Do tasks as they come up • Don't worry about organization • Set aside time to check email • Have no plan
Module Three: Review Questions • Which of these is an easy way to simplify your life? • Pay someone to do it • Plan your meals • Use electronic banking • All of the above • Setting up a system for maintaining your task tracking system is an example of what? • Too much work • Laziness • Professional routine • Procrastinating
Module Four: Scheduling Yourself Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. William Penn Routines and rituals should form the framework of your days at home and in the office. This module will explore how to schedule those tasks and activities in the most efficient way possible.
Module Four: Review Questions • Routines and _________ should form the framework of your days at home and in the office. • Procrastination • Difficult tasks • Rituals • Avoidance • There is no __________ to time management. • Answer • Path • End • Secret
Module Four: Review Questions • Electronic solutions are an example of a ___________ __________. • Long road • Difficult project • Tracking system • Sneaky tool • Which of these is not a step to making the most of your electronic solution? • Taking time to learn about features of the application • Keep all your email accounts for home and office together • Adjust as much as you can • Keep personal and professional tasks separate
Module Four: Review Questions • People who are traditionalists should try using a ________________ journal. • Electronic files • Post-it • Productivity • Memory • You can keep a ____________ calendar in the back of the journal. • Long-term • Short-term • Yearly • Activity
Module Four: Review Questions • What's the term for the concept that allows you to differentiate between important tasks and urgent tasks? • Urgent/important matrix • Important/non-urgent matrix • Home/work matrix • Work/task matrix • What is the concept of the urgent/important matrix called? • Roosevelt principle • Truman principle • Eisenhower principle • Trump principle
Module Four: Review Questions • Who rediscovered the Eisenhower Principle in 1994 and wrote a book centering on it? • Truman Capote • Stephen Covey • Maeve Binchy • John Grisham • Which is not a quadrant of the urgent/important matrix? • Urgent and important • Important, but not urgent • Urgent and ethical • Not urgent and not important
Module Four: Review Questions • Routines and _________ should form the framework of your days at home and in the office. • Procrastination • Difficult tasks • Rituals • Avoidance • There is no __________ to time management. • Answer • Path • End • Secret
Module Four: Review Questions • Electronic solutions are an example of a ___________ __________. • Long road • Difficult project • Tracking system • Sneaky tool • Which of these is not a step to making the most of your electronic solution? • Taking time to learn about features of the application • Keep all your email accounts for home and office together • Adjust as much as you can • Keep personal and professional tasks separate
Module Four: Review Questions • People who are traditionalists should try using a ________________ journal. • Electronic files • Post-it • Productivity • Memory • You can keep a ____________ calendar in the back of the journal. • Long-term • Short-term • Yearly • Activity
Module Four: Review Questions • What's the term for the concept that allows you to differentiate between important tasks and urgent tasks? • Urgent/important matrix • Important/non-urgent matrix • Home/work matrix • Work/task matrix • What is the concept of the urgent/important matrix called? • Roosevelt principle • Truman principle • Eisenhower principle • Trump principle
Module Four: Review Questions • Who rediscovered the Eisenhower Principle in 1994 and wrote a book centering on it? • Truman Capote • Stephen Covey • Maeve Binchy • John Grisham • Which is not a quadrant of the urgent/important matrix? • Urgent and important • Important, but not urgent • Urgent and ethical • Not urgent and not important
Module Five: Keeping Yourself on Top of Tasks Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. Anonymous Even after you’ve got a plan in place, it’s important to keep adjusting your plan so that you can stay in control of your time. This module will give you some ways to help you stay on top of your to-do list.
