Are you ready to plug your time leaks?
Busy professionals lose up to three hours per day from time leaks. Interruptions, distractions, and overload from having a multitude of tasks to complete are all slow leaks that steal your time when you’re not looking. In the academic world, this adds up to scrambling to cram in seemingly more and more work. In your personal world, this can lead to more stress and less quality time with your loved ones.
Whether you’re working from home or campus or a hybrid, during this fast-paced session, Helene Segura will reveal common pressure points – and the solutions for them.
Learning objectives:
- Explore the causes of common time leaks.
- Learn strategies to plug those leaks.
- Discover the secret to planning a productive day – and turning those to-do lists into done lists.
What's included:
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Welcome!
- How to Use this Platform: a quick tutorial from the folks at Thinkific
- Using the Complete & Continue Button
- Want to turn off the weekly "course progress" emails?
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Handout
- Download your handout here.
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The Top Five Time Leaks
- Introduction to Time Management - 6:06
- What are time leaks? - 1:37
- Time Leak #1 - Email - 3:16
- Time Leak #2 - Instant Messaging - 2:10
- Time Leak #3 - Casual Conversations - 5:02
- Time Leak #4 - Constant Questions - 1:42
- Time Leak #5 - Self-Interruptions - 5:54
- Reactionary Days - 8:28
- The Secret to Planning a Productive Day - 8:59
- Calendar Activity - 8:27
- Breakout Room explanation - 3:11
- Breakout Room share-out - 8:56
- Reflection Activity and Q&A - 13:33
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Resources
- Productivity Kickstarter Kit
- Additional Solutions
Your broadcast host:
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Time Management Fixer
Helene Segura, MA Ed, CPO
Time management fixer Helene Segura delivers thought-provoking, yet entertaining time management keynotes and seminars that give busy professionals the powerful strategies and tactics they need to cut lost time. By improving efficiency, she helps companies lower employee stress levels, decrease absenteeism, improve retention, and increase profits.
The author of four books - two of which were Amazon best-sellers - Helene has been the featured organizational expert in more than 200 media interviews including publications such as US News and World Report and Money Magazine, as well as on Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC affiliates.
Her Bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University is in Political Science. She focused on international affairs, so she learned about negotiations and the importance of dissecting situations from different perspectives. Her Master’s degree from UTSA is in Educational Leadership. She learned about running a business, as well as educational psychology – behavior change and behavior management. Since 2006, in both her individual consulting and trainings, she's used all of those skills to teach audiences how to pin-point their barriers to personal efficiency and implement changes that will save their sanity – and save the companies for which they work a great deal of money.
When she's not revealing solutions as The Inefficiency Assassin, she enjoys experimenting with recipes, traveling and watching movies. -