TIME MANAGEMENT FOR PROFESSIONALS:
Define Roles, Set Goals, and Manage Your Use of Time

Some professionals thrive in their personal, family, financial, community, and professional lives. Others, in spite of ample talent and good intentions, fill their lives with mediocrity. Why is that? French writer Victor Hugo explained it this way: "But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely in the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign."

If you say to others: "I don’t have the time" , then this webinar is for you.

This simple remark originates from a perspective that creates poor habits and limits our achievement and abilities to function in every way of life. In fact, each of us has the same amount of time but we rarely see it as a “gift”. Our time—our use of this gift—should be carefully managed. After all, we "only go around once." Ultimately time management is a matter of personal stewardship.

This webinar builds on the concept that personal time management, when carried out in support of selected roles and ambitious goals, leads to individual and organizational success and significance. The webinar begins by helping you define roles and goals and then it offers a time management toolbox to help you fulfill the roles and achieve the goals.

This webinar builds on the concept that time management is the key for leading to organizational success and individual significance.

OBJECTIVES OF THIS WEBINAR:

• Reflect on your progress in fulfilling desired roles and achieving goals
• Acquire useful time management tools and techniques
• Work effectively, not just efficiently
• Integrate all aspects of your life, not just work
• “Find” at least one hour per day
• Reduce stress
• Achieve more success and significance
• Strengthen your organization

TOPICS:

• Work harder or smarter?
• Roles and goals first – then manage your time
• Time as a resource
• Time management: The great equalizer
• Effectiveness first, efficiency second
• 26 practical tips – the time management ABCs
• Won’t do list
• Attacking organizational time wasters
• A time management system
• Your action plan
• Resources for additional study

Pay one site registration fee and an unlimited number of participants from your organization can attend at that site.

Earn 1.5 Professional Development Hours (1.5 PDH) for this webinar.



A Record of Attendance Form is included free with each webinar for your record keeping and individual PDH verification. We ask your on-site coordinator to return the completed and signed copy of the Form to us following the webinar for (1) maintaining a separate copy as a service to attendees and (2) forwarding to NIU confirming attendance for those who order certificates.

Attendees may also order an official a Course Completion Certificate from Northern Illinois University for a small administrative fee. The Certificate is optional and may be ordered separately following the webinar to confirm your attendance and showcase the certificate on your office wall. Instructions for ordering certificates are given during the webinar.


* This webinar is eligible for the ’BUY THREE, GET THREE’ Members discount.

Instructor Bio

Stu Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, D.WRE Author of "Managing and Leading: 52 Lessons Learned for Engineers and Urban Surface Water Management"

Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, D.WRE is an independent consultant providing management, engineering, education/training, and marketing services. He has 40 years of engineering, education, and management experience in the government, private, and academic sectors. Stu has served as a project engineer and manager, department head, discipline manager, marketer, legal expert, professor, and dean of an engineering college.

Water resources engineering is Stu Walesh’s technical specialty. He led watershed planning, computer modeling, flood control, stormwater management, and floodplain management projects.

Stu authored or co-authored five books, including Managing and Leading: 52 Lessons Learned for Engineers and Urban Surface Water Management. He authored or co-authored many engineering and education publications and presentations and facilitated several hundred workshops, seminars, webinars, and meetings throughout the U.S. For the past decade, he has been active in the effort to reform the education and early experience of engineers. Stu has been recognized with awards from ASCE, ASEE, NSPE, and the University of Wisconsin.