Time Management Tips: Communication
44mBeginner2019-11-27
Authors
Dave Crenshaw
Author and Leadership Coach specializing in productive leadership
Course details
The Time Management Tips series was designed to help professionals boost their productivity, get things done, and find more time for what's most important. In this installment, productive leadership author and speaker Dave Crenshaw focuses on the key tenants of communication, sharing bite-sized tips that can help you strengthen your relationships with coworkers—and maximize your time in the process. Learn strategies for establishing realistic expectations, handling meetings or conversations that run long, and responding to quick questions. Plus, discover how being kind improves productivity, what to do when someone multitasks while speaking to you, and how to keep texting from being a distraction.
Learning objectives
Explain how you should respond when your boss asks you to finish something ASAP.
Identify the best way to approach the end of a meeting when the time schedule for the meeting is nearly gone.
List the details that should be present in a well-worded voicemail message related to a task at work.
Identify the most productive use of text messaging at work.
Explain how you can use a portable inbox to manage business cards you receive.
Learning objectives
Explain how you should respond when your boss asks you to finish something ASAP.
Identify the best way to approach the end of a meeting when the time schedule for the meeting is nearly gone.
List the details that should be present in a well-worded voicemail message related to a task at work.
Identify the most productive use of text messaging at work.
Explain how you can use a portable inbox to manage business cards you receive.
Skills covered
Time ManagementCommunicationWell-Being and Self-CareLimited SeriesProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and Management
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - How communication saves time
1. Communication Tips
- 02 - Give people your attention
- 03 - Responding to quick questions
- 04 - What to say instead of ASAP
- 05 - Make time to build relationships
- 06 - Staying engaged in conference calls
- 07 - Meetings and conversations that run long
- 08 - How being kind improves productivity
- 09 - Set voicemail expectations
- 10 - Leaving an effective voicemail message
- 11 - What to do when someone is multitasking on you
- 12 - What to do about unsolicited phone calls
- 13 - Using text messaging productively
- 14 - Stop message interruptions
- 15 - Make phone calls more productive
- 16 - What to do with business cards
Conclusion
- 17 - Next steps