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13 May 2007

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Our core program, Managing Management Time™ (MMT), addresses the manager’s central mission:

To anticipate and positively influence — if not control — critical events which impact on their organization.

Do you know your time differences:
Between Vocational and
Management?

The penalty for failure here is to find oneself reacting to events, fighting fires, in essence to be living a life of crisis management.

• Confusing or conflicting priorities,
• A chronic shortage or lack of resources,
• Not enough time in the day to handle everything on their plate, and/or
• Someone else is in control of “what” and “when” the manager is doing, no matter what the manager may have planned.

Add to this that decisions must often be made under time pressure, in an environment often characterized by:

• Incomplete or partial information
• Uncertainty
• Ambiguity, and
• Risk.

Additionally, many of us are faced with these problems:

• Self doubts/wavering self-confidence:

“At this level, a mistake could be devastating. Did I make the right decision?”

• A feeling of isolation:

“While I might have the authority, I am in no position to directly affect tactical outcomes.”

“I have to rely on people, many of whom I don’t even ‘know’, to solve the problem.”"Can everyone effectively help solve the problem or is there confusion in the ranks?”

“I have to rely on people, many of whom I don’t even ‘know’, to solve the problem.”

“Can everyone effectively help solve the problem or is there confusion in the ranks?”

We know that internal problems, if not detected and corrected, can have a dramatic negative impact on the organization’s “bottom line,” even on its will and ability to survive. So . . .

 

Do you really know how to delegate:
Who’s got the Monkey?

We teach managers how to:

1. Recognize

• Where they are in the mix,

How they got there, and

Why they got there.

2. Implement

• Solutions to those managerial problems.

Why?
Our objective is to build a self-sustaining organizational culture that

Helps people at every level get the time to face this situation,

Has everyone making relevant recommendations and taking timely action to solve various situational problems, and

Gives each individual the means to get the support they need, must have to do their job.

 

Managing Management Time™

Our Program

This is NOT a conventional time management seminar.
It is different from other time management courses. Our program is not going to teach you efficiency techniques like prioritizing, sorting your in-basket, your e-mail, or screening calls and visitors. Those are valuable techniques which you can use after you’ve attended this program. What it will teach you, instead, is how to get control of the timing and content of your job.

Is our Managing Management Time™ Seminar for you?

Could you increase the value of each hour you put in:

• If you could become more accessible to your subordinates and have more time to yourself without having to put in longer hours?

• If your own subordinates would assume more responsibility for day-to-day operating decisions–so they would not reach your desk?

• If you could successfully anticipate, and not have to wait for, the decisions of your boss and those of other departments?

• If others would stop bypassing you for decisions that are your prerogative to make?

• If the reports you get from “the field” were more timely and meaningful?

• If interdepartmental conflicts and differences were resolved more often at those levels in the organization where they initially arise?

If so, then attending our Managing Management Time™ Seminar will be invaluable to you.

To further convince you that our presentations will address your situation, we invite you to explore this site. Then we look forward to being invited to conduct our leadership training for your organization.

For the course description of our Managing Management Time™ Seminar and the follow-up training, please click on their titles below:

Managing Management Time™

“Managing Management Time”™
(MMT)

The Real World

If we had to reduce the mission statement (or vision statement) of any manager or leader to only two words, it would be to control events. Simply stated, if we are not controlling events, then they will be controlling us. There is no third alternative!

Many of us begin by trying to efficiently manage our time. William Oncken, Jr. (1912-1988), who created his unique MMT philosophy and its humorous and down-to-earth imagery in 1960, believed that efficiency — the “daily diary” approach to time management — is useful only after you’re in control of your time in the first place.

But as you know, each day brings many unexpected interruptions, sometimes so many that you may not get around to doing what you were planning to do. Of course, handling those interruptions is part of your job; how you handle them determines whether or not you are in control or whether events are controlling you.

For example, suppose you have a deadline to meet for a project and you plan to spend the whole day working on it, then your boss calls you in for a three-hour meeting to discuss the status of another project. What happens to your plan? Or suppose a peer or one of your staff members comes to you with an urgent problem, which you know you must take care of right away to avert a disaster.

In these cases, someone else is determining what you do and when you do it, no matter what you had planned. And in the case of the peer or staff member, you might even be doing something that isn’t your job to do. Of course, in neither of those cases could you refuse to cooperate on the grounds that you have a plan and must stick to it. That would hurt your organization. And when you do something that’s bad for your organization, it’s also bad for your career.

You’re caught in a paradox - organizational management versus time management. You need to maintain good relations with the people you work with to do your job effectively, but they are precisely the source of the interruptions in which can prevent you from doing your job. That paradox is the basis of the Oncken MMT Philosophy.

At this point we invite you to “Surf the Molecule” and explore “Our Approach”. You will get a preview of what you will learn in attending our seminar:

1. how to recognize the paradox in your own job and
2. how to deal with it realistically and productively

Our Invitation To You

To make our Managing Management Time™ ( MMT) philosophy an integral part of your organizational culture, “Contact Us” about conducting an on-site Seminar at your company location. We also invite you to return the our Home page and check out the follow-up training available to graduates of our MMT Seminar.

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