Course Description
A distracted employee is a less effective employee. Employees who do not pay attention to their work can waste valuable time and make careless mistakes. Your participants will be more efficient at their job, make fewer mistakes, and overall be more productive.
Attention Management is a useful skill that allows managers to connect with their employees on an emotional level and motivate them to focus on their work and how to reach their personal and company goals. Your participants will gain valuable insight and strategies into what it takes to be more attentive and vigilant.
At the end of this workshop, participants should be able to:
Define and understand attention management.
Identify different types of attention.
Create strategies for goals and SMART goals.
Be familiar with methods that focus attention.
Put an end to procrastination.
Learn how to prioritize time.
Agenda
Course Core Competencies:
Module 1: Introduction to Attention Management
Topic A: What is Attention Management?
Topic B: Stop Thinking and Pay Attention!
Topic C: What is Mushin?
Topic D: What is Xin Yi (Heart Minded)?
Module 2: Types of Attention
Topic A: Focused Attention
Topic B: Sustained Attention
Topic C: Selective Attention
Topic D: Alternating Attention
Topic E: Attention CEO
Topic F: Attentional Blink
Module 3: Strategies for Goal Setting
Topic A: Listening to Your Emotions
Topic B: Prioritizing
Topic C: Re-Gating
Module 4: Meditation
Topic A: Beta
Topic B: Alpha
Topic C: Theta
Topic D: Delta
Topic E: Gamma
Module 5: Training Your Attention
Topic A: Mushin
Topic B: Meditation
Topic C: Focus Execute
Topic D: Visualization
Module 6: Attention Zones Model
Topic A: Reactive Zone
Topic B: Proactive Zone
Topic C: Distracted Zone
Topic D: Wasteful Zone
Module 7: SMART Goals
Topic A: The Three P’s
Topic B: The SMART Way
Topic C: Prioritizing
Topic D: Evaluating and Adapting
Module 8: Keeping Yourself Focused
Topic A: The One Minute Rule
Topic B: The Five Minute Rule
Topic C: What to Do When You Feel Overwhelmed
Module 9: Procrastination
Topic A: Why We Procrastinate
Topic B: Nine Ways to Overcome Procrastination
Topic C: Eat That Frog
Module 10: Prioritizing Your Time
Topic A: The 80/20 Rule
Topic B: The Urgent/Important Matrix
Topic C: Being Assertive
Topic D: Creating a Productivity Journal
Topic E: The Glass Jar: Rocks, Pebbles, Sand and Water