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Managing Chaos: How to Set Priorities and Make Decisions Under Pressure
Seminar No: 02261-XNBB
CEU Credits: 1.2
Length: 2.0 days
Now more than ever, you are asked to increase your productivity while balancing multiple priorities with high-risk decisions.
Learn to manage your priorities and make decisions all in one seminar!
This highly interactive seminar offers you and your team an array of practical tools to help you get things done in today’s chaotic and constantly changing work environment. You’ll learn practical techniques for making structured decisions—even under pressure—to earn buy-in from bosses, coworkers and customers. In a workshop environment, you will participate in valuable exercises utilizing real-world case studies. You’ll emerge with an action plan you can use right away to master expanding workloads and complex decisions.
Attendees:
Managers and senior tech professionals from all functions and anyone with managerial responsibilities whether or not that supervise others. In addition, anyone who is facing expanding workloads, tight time lines and increasing uncertainty. You and your team will benefit if you take this seminar together.
Note: Administrative professionals who are interested in managing their time and their daily responsibilities more effectively should refer to Seminar #2194:
Managing Chaos: Dynamic Time Management, Recall, Reading and Stress Management Skills for Administrative Professionals.
How You Will Benefit:
- Become more productive by prioritizing work and maintaining focus
- Make better decisions based on consistently good analysis
- Become more decisive and make better decisions by gleaning the right information, and appraising the situation more effectively
What You Will Cover:
- Managing escalating pressures: ten new answers
- How to chart your priorities: allocate your time between strategic and tactical work
- Using an array of tools to meet the competing demands of bosses, coworkers and customers
- Communicating powerfully even under pressure
- How your values and thinking styles drive your decisions
- Learning new power tools to structure decisions and make tough choices
Extended/Detailed Course Outline
Learning Objectives
- Become More Productive by Prioritizing Work and Maintaining Focus
- Make Better Decisions Based on Consistently Good Analysis
- Become More Decisive and Make Better Decisions by Gleaning the Right Information, and Appraising the Situation More Effectively
- Become a Stronger Communicator with Techniques to Help You Listen, Question and Clarify Priorities More Efficiently
- Gain the Cooperation of Others by Communicating the Risks and Gains of Decisions
- Learn Stress Survival Techniques to Help You Balance Work and Life When You Must Make Tough Choices Every Day
Start and End times: first day - 8:30am-5pm, all other days 9am-5pm unless otherwise specified. Your registration confirmation notice will confirm the hotel/conference center for the seminar for which you registered. The information included on this page is all the information available on this seminar. Please use form below to register only. To request information that is not included above please send an email to
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Seminars scheduled for the cities below are held at the locations listed below. For location information for other cities in which AMA seminars are held please call or email for information.
New York
AMA executive Conference Center
1601 Broadway New York, NY 10019
American Management Association (Located in the same building as the Crowne Plaza Hotel) 1601 Broadway On Broadway and 48th Street near Times Square. Entrance is on 48th Street.
Chicago
AMA executive Conference Center (adjacent to the Marroitt O'Hare)
8655 west higgins rd
Chicago, IL 60631
San Francisco
AMA executive Conference Center is located in San Francisco Marriott Hotel
55 Fourth Street 2nd Level
San Francisco, CA 94103
Atlanta
AMA Executive Conference Center
Address: 1170 Peachtree Street Ne Cnr Peachtree & 14th (3rd Flr)
City, State, Zip: Atlanta, GA 30309
Washington, DC
Arlington, Virginia
2345 Crystal Drive, Suite 200
Arlington, VA 22202
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If you cannot attend a seminar you can contact AMA in advance to transfer to a future session, or you can send someone to take your place. If you need to cancel your attendance, AMA will give you a complete refund if you cancel more than three weeks before your seminar begins. To cancel, simply email us at
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AMA grants courtesy transfers to people who cannot attend their scheduled sessions. You can use a courtesy transfer for any seminar of equal or lesser length than the original seminar. You must use your courtesy transfer within one year of the date of your originally scheduled seminar.
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