This workshop will enable you to:
- Eliminate time stress
- Get over 100 practical ideas — at least one has to apply to you
- Create a balance between your work life and personal life
- Work with greater productivity and satisfaction
- Comply with Code of Professional Conduct
Approved for 6 hours MCLE credit, including 2 hours of ethics
"Good practical ideas for tackling the tasks that keep me from enjoying my days. I am excited about putting this into effect immediately."
"It is all less random. It can be more fun by being more disciplined."
"It can be done — an organized, satisfying life."
"You give a simpler theory on cleaning up what has always been a hopeless task."
"Wonderful suggestions to streamline my business life."
"I'm actually thinking about improving now."
"I am more hopeful. I see a way to make time management work."
"I have been stuck and now can get unstuck."
"Just plain common sense, but hearing it with methods of implementation brings it closer to reality."
This teleseminar will be presented in three 2-hour modules
AGENDA FOR SUCCESS
Module 1
- Become accountable for your time
- Understand where you can make time gains
- Where do you want it to go?
"Self-analysis instruments are very insightful."
"I need to be accountable to myself for time spent."
- Create positive attitudes for peace of mind
- Never again say, "I don't have enough time!"
"I can make time if I really want to."
"The sky's the limit in terms of $ and psychological growth."
- Work on what counts rather than what comes up
- The Doing/Managing ratio
- Fire incompetent clients
- Control where your time goes
- Increase income while decreasing hours
"This seminar helped me to look at what is really important to me and to set into motion the means to effect it."
"I am convinced I can become better attuned to working on what really counts."
- Become accountable for your time
- Delegate — You can do it!
- Overcome barriers to delegating
- Your secretary as assistant
- Using time-saving technology
"My thinking about delegation has changed. I see that it is possible to look for new ways to do things."
"Delegation is not as painful as I perceived it."
Module 2
- Plan your life
- Work to live instead of living to work
"I have made a conscious commitment to spend more quality time with my family."
"Excellent in making me realize what I truly value in my life."
"I have greater possibilities of reaching my goals by focusing on them and preparing
to start work on them."
- Plan your work
- Set and stick to priorities
- Set yearly goals
- Reduce your work hours: The "Cold Turkey" method
- Long range planning
"I have a better, if not profound, understanding that what I am doing now is not working."
"Suggestions have given me a new insight into my control problem and the suggested techniques appear workable."
- Stop having your work encroach on your personal time
Ethics: Lawyer/Client Relationship — Communication
- Work your plan: Control interruptions
- Be the master of technology, not the slave
- Balance being available with getting your planned work done
- Take a priority hour
"I hate interruptions! With some control work will be more fun."
"Using these controls can help eliminate my feeling that I am overwhelmed by my work."
"The priority hour can help me prevent interruptions without feeling rude."
- Manage the phone
- Delegate phone management
- Set phone appointments
- Get out of cell hell
"I never knew I was looking for distractions. Thanks for pointing that out."
"Excellent ideas to control telephone problems."
- Get out of e-mail jail
- The 12 best e-mail practices
"E-mail is my biggest problem and I am going to institute many changes."
"I liked the e-mail part best."
- Get and stay in control of your work
- Using a simple task management system
- Daily planning
- How to not let anything slip through the cracks
"I love the ideas about tasking and action lists."
"Excellent organization ideas."
"I want to work on organizing my to do lists — no more post-its."
Module 3
- Go home satisfied every day
"I am more hopeful and see the possibility of greater freedom and less stress."
- Communicate proactively with clients and in the office
- Eliminate time waste in meetings
Ethics: Lawyer/client relationship — Competence and diligence
- Get and stay organized
- Orderly file processing
- Clear up your piles
- Overcome indecision: The 3-Minute Rule
- Handle paper and mail efficiently
"I don't need to keep my professional journals!"
"I see this as a vehicle to avoid the clutter that I create for myself."
"Getting and being organized will make me a more satisfied person."
- Handle anxiety
- The anatomy of anxiety
- Get control over anxiety
- How to complete everything
"I have a clear path and less worry about the overwhelming snowball, as I broke the huge list into components I can easily complete."
"Everything is not so overwhelming."
- Stop procrastinating
- The Worst First method
- The Bite-the-Bullet day
"I feel like I can deal with procrastination better — lots of good mental strategies."
"Nice not to be plagued by the guilt of procrastination."
- Get things done
- Tackle the "some day," soft deadline, or tedious projects
- The 15-Minute Rule
"I will allocate 15 minutes per day for tasks that I have avoided handling."
"Helped me identify where my log jam is."
- Pause for perspective, creativity and well-being
- Creating creative time
- The "Do What I Like" Day
- Take a vacation
- Foster better time management for the whole office
- Convert intentions into action
