Time Management for Stress Reduction and Productivity. Includes booklets, leader's guide, certificate of participation.

Time Management for Stress Reduction and Productivity

$79.95

Your training package includes 10 booklets, plus a downloadable leader’s guide, and certificates of participation.

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Description

Customer Service Training in Time Management.

Good time management is one of the most important skills for service professionals to master.

But, the pressing and often conflicting demands of customers, teammates, other departments, and management make it difficult for even the most experienced and well-organized reps to manage all of their day-to-day tasks and deadlines.

Now, you can help your staff improve their organizational skills and accomplish more each and every day with this valuable training package.

Your package includes 10 copies of the Training Booklet plus downloadable Leader’s Guide, and Certificates.

The Training Booklets may be used on their own for self-study or you may conduct more formal training sessions with the Leader’s Guide and Certificates.

It’s a complete training package on managing time in the service center.

Training Booklet

This hands-on guide includes a quiz to help reps evaluate how well they are managing their time. Plus 16 strategies to better organize their day and their work.

Read the table of contents and sample below to see how much useful information is packed into this brief booklet.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Rate your time management skills
  2. Determine how you are spending your time
  3. Review your time management log
  4. Create a to-do list
  5. Create a not-to-do list
  6. Prioritize tasks
  7. Schedule your day
  8. Minimize interruptions from coworkers
  9. Conquer procrastination
  10. Minimize interruptions from email
  11. Manage your documents
  12. Bundle your tasks together
  13. Beware of multitasking
  14. Find an organizational system
  15. Create a list of in-between tasks
  16. Improve your job skills

   Worksheet: Time-management self-quiz

SAMPLE
Step 8: Minimize interruptions from coworkers

Unscheduled interruptions can do more to derail your time management efforts than any other single event. But there are ways to minimize these interruptions and remain focused on your goals without antagonizing anyone. The following strategies are effective in dealing with coworkers and supervisors when they interrupt your carefully prioritized plans:

Stand up. Intrusions into your cubicle or workspace can be handled by standing up and moving toward the “invisible door” to your workspace when someone unexpectedly enters. This will prevent the individual from making himself or herself at home.

Keep it brief. Requests for information or help can often be handled by answering questions succinctly, without leaving room for additional conversation.

Schedule. Sometimes you just have to say no to requests from coworkers. While saying no may feel rude or uncomfortable the answer is to say “yes” to the person and “no” to the request.

For example, “I would love to help you research that, but I can’t do it until after 3:00.” Or try, “I’d love to talk to you about that, but I have to get back on the phones in 20 minutes, and I promised to have this activity report completed before then. When will you be available to discuss this later?”

It can be even more difficult to say “no” if your supervisor asks you to do something. Instead, try saying, “I’d be happy to do that, but how does it fit in with my other priorities?” Then share your schedule or to-do list with your supervisor to determine whether the request is the best use of your time.

Leader's Guide

To help you get the most from your training materials, you’ll receive a copy of the Leader’s Guide. It will show you how to introduce the materials to your staff in a positive and motivating way. How to reinforce important points in the booklet. Plus techniques to keep the message fresh long after the booklets have been distributed.

Best of all, you don’t have to be a professional trainer. The Leader’s Guide includes discussion topics, activities, trainer’s tips, and more.

Read the sample below to see how much useful information is packed into a brief section of this Leader’s Guide.

SAMPLE
Activity 2: Eliminating low-value activities

The guide focuses on eliminating low-value or no-value work. For this activity, ask each rep to keep a Time Management Log for several days before you meet (see Step 2 in the guide). Each rep should come to the meeting with a list of two or three work-related activities that they consider low-value or no-value.

Note: Be sure that reps understand that you are not asking them to share their entire Time Management Log. Completing the log is an individual activity and can only be done accurately if it is done honestly and privately.

Go around the room and ask each person to share his or her list. Note these tasks on a white board. Patterns should begin to emerge and your team can reach consensus on the most time-consuming of the low-value activities.

Now it’s time to brainstorm. Open the floor to creative ideas and suggestions for eliminating each low-value item from the work day. For example, in one company reps were asked to collect fax numbers for each customer who called with a particular type of issue. However, the company had stopped sending faxes two years earlier. The solution was to eliminate this field on the customer data screen.

At another company, reps felt they were spending too much time explaining a particular policy to callers. To address this issue, the policy was covered at the company website. This cut the number of questions by over 60 percent.

The flip side of this activity is taking the time to explain the value of certain work. At a large industrial manufacturer, the service team rated sending out product literature as a low-value and low-priority activity that was often at the bottom of the to-do list. The manager explained that by doing this work, the service department relieved its sales team of up to 12 hours of administrative time per month so that they could schedule an additional two sales calls per week, which enhanced company growth. This simple exercise can help eliminate time-wasting activities, clarify priorities, enhance teamwork, and energize staff.

Certificate

Use these certificates to acknowledge significant learning and development, and to provide motivation to put new skills into action.

Certificates may be downloaded, personalized, and printed.

Guarantee

Time Management for Stress Reduction and Productivity is guaranteed. We want you and your reps to use this valuable resource and put its ideas to work in your department. Then, if you are not 100% satisfied, you may return your materials within 30 days for a full refund.

About the Publisher

The Customer Service Group provides ready-to-use tools for customer service training and frontline motivation including a monthly newsletter, training packages, DVDs, and Customer Service Week celebration materials.