INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
Do you struggle to stay productive amidst competing priorities and distractions? In today’s fast-paced business environment, achieving personal productivity is more than just time management—it requires goal setting, structured planning, clear communication, and a positive mindset.
The Maximizing Personal Productivity and Positive Thinking training course offers practical tools and strategies to help professionals take control of their schedules, maintain focus, manage interruptions, and foster a mindset that promotes motivation and results. This training course empowers participants to stay resilient, think proactively, and lead themselves and others through example and influence.
Participants will explore how to set SMART goals, align daily activities with broader objectives, and apply positive thinking to overcome challenges and achieve success in their roles.
This Maximizing Personal Productivity and Positive Thinking training course will highlight:
- Setting clear, realistic goals and measurable objectives for personal growth
- Planning and prioritizing tasks effectively—daily, weekly, and monthly
- Structuring your day to enhance efficiency and focus
- Enhancing communication to manage external demands on your time
- Building a resilient mindset through positivity and self-awareness
- Managing multiple tasks, interruptions, and competing priorities with confidence
COURSE DETAILS
Objectives
At the end of this Maximizing Personal Productivity and Positive Thinking training course, participants will be able to:
- Manage and motivate themselves and others by setting empowering goals and visualizing positive outcomes
- Apply proven techniques to enhance daily planning and priority setting
- Build productive habits that drive long-term personal and professional success
- Apply empowerment techniques to manage workplace demands and external requests
- Strengthen communication to align priorities and reduce misunderstandings
- Cultivate a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset using success coaching principles
- Create win-win outcomes that support collaboration and productivity
Training Methodology
This training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes learning with presentations, discussion, practical activities, videos, team practice exercises and case studies.
Who should Attend?
This training course is designed for those who desire to learn personal productivity techniques that will assist them in tasks, establishing priorities and meeting deadlines for work and projects.
This KC Academy Maximizing Personal Productivity and Positive Thinking training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Project Management Professionals
- Professionals who want to learn techniques to work with other colleagues
- Team Leaders, Supervisors, Section Heads and Managers
- Professionals who have an interest in a management position
- Anyone who wants to become a leader in their work role
- Project, Purchasing, Finance & Production Officers and Personnel
- Technical Professionals including those in Maintenance, Engineering & Production
- Secretaries, Clerks, Administrative and Support Staff
- Anyone who juggles multiple tasks and deadlines
DAILY AGENDA
DAY 1: Key Principles of Personal Productivity and Achieving Results
- Course objectives and review of beliefs and feelings about time, and success
- Essential principles of attention, energy, and time management
- How do you use your time now?
- Setting clear, concise, and motivating sales goals and action plans
- How to set and use goal setting as way of managing your time and increasing results?
- The principles of linking OKR’s, outcomes and SMART objectives to action plans and daily activities
DAY 2: Managing Priorities and Planning Systems
- Why goal setting does not work most of the time and what does?
- Identifying your own motivation and purpose
- Developing a solution-focused and growth mindset
- Self-coaching for progress and capacity building
- How to use priority ratings not urgency to react to tasks?
- Know your time ‘bandits’ and creating more positive habits to overcome them
DAY 3: Improved Communication for Saving Time, Energy, and Effort
- Dealing with distractions and improving your communication skills
- Assertiveness techniques for handling colleagues and clients
- Making meetings worthwhile – preparation and planning
- Speed-reading techniques to save time
- Clear, concise, and convincing, how to get your point across in 30 seconds
- Using priorities to build productive habits:
- Delegate to others,
- Avoiding Interruptions,
- Learn to say NO, nicely
DAY 4: Overcoming Procrastination and Structuring Your Day
- Batch sales tasks together, starting with emails
- Planning your day and week and protecting ‘prime’ time
- Apply the 80/20 to your work and projects
- Understanding procrastination, what it is and how to recognise it in yourself and others
- How to stop procrastinating and start making progress?
- How to take positive actions to go from being stuck to being motivated?
DAY 5: Applying Positive Psychology to Your Work Activities and Goals
- What is positive thinking and why it matters?
- Examples of positive psychology and positive thinking in individuals and organizations
- How positive mental attitude can influence and shape your future?
- Overcoming mental blocks, blind spots, and negative emotional loops
- Visualization techniques and relaxation techniques
- The seven principles of positive thinking and psychology
Certificate
- On successful completion of this training course, KC Academy Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.