Harold Taylor

Harold Taylor: Program Outlines

Time Management for Business
Description: In this session, we review the time management strategies that are important to entrepreneurs and managers in larger companies with an emphasis on those designed to increase their personal productivity and affect the bottom line. Includes mission statements, goals, long-range and short-range planning, delegation, meeting management, communications and ways to accomplish significant results in less time with less stress while maintaining a balanced life.

Time Management in the Home
Description: This course discusses time management tools, procedures and strategies for working parents, single parents, students and retirees. How to make your own personal organizer, challenges of a home office, balancing a home, job, family and children, personal goals, time-saving tips and shortcuts in all aspects of household management.

Time Management for Seniors
Description: With life expectancy increasing, people are spending a third of their lives in retirement. Age brings new problems, challenges, and opportunities. In this one-hour seminar, Harold reviews common time management strategies as they relate to seniors, and introduces newer strategies tailored specifically to the needs of the elderly. Whether you are a senior, provide assistance to seniors, or plan someday to become a senior, there is information here for you.

Topics included in the program: How time management can increase your lifespan. You’re never too old for planning. How goals can keep you young. Increasing quality time. The greatest time management strategy: living a longer and healthier life. Why time seems to go faster the older you get. Ways to slow down the perceived passage of time. Lifelong learning. Time challenges unique to seniors. Time tips for seniors.

Time Management for Students
Description: With the increasing pace of life, choices available and time demands, juggling school with other activities can be a stressful venture. It is essential that students, particularly those in college or university and those also holding down a job, develop self-discipline and structure, keep organized, plan well ahead, and manage their time effectively. In this seminar Harold Taylor, time management consultant and former college teaching master, will outline some practical suggestions for students at all levels.

Managing email
Description: Email has replaced the telephone as the most frequently used communication tool and consumes as much as three hours per day of an information worker’s time. This obsession with email is causing stress, health problems, productivity losses, family problems, and affecting life balance. Harold Taylor provides email statistics, resources, references, and discusses specific email strategies, including how to get rid of the backlog in your inbox, how to file for instant retrieval, the best times to check and send email. email shortcuts, reducing spam, writing effective email messages, the FADES method of dispensing with incoming email, keeping your inbox empty, preventing email from infringing on personal time, calculating the cost of email for yourself and your clients, and more.

Time management in a Nutshell
Description: The basic process of gaining control of your time and your life involves just three things on your part – think, plan and do. In this one-hour session, time management expert Harold Taylor guides you through these steps: Think: Exploring your passion, purpose and priorities. Determining what is important in your life, breaking free of trivia, and setting your sights on specific targets. Plan: Planning your course and creating commitment. Deciding how you will get from where you are to where you want to be, plotting the course of action in your planner, and developing guidelines to stay on track. Do: Dealing with distractions and developing discipline. Maintaining focus amid chaos, coping with interruptions, and resisting the tendency to procrastinate.

10 Time Management Myths
Description: In this one-hour seminar Harold Taylor dispels many of the common myths that are still circulating today, such as “We can manage time,” “To Do lists help get things done,” and “time is money.” During the course of the program he discusses efficiency and effectiveness, quiet hours and focus hours, personal organizers and electronic devices, time logs and time wasters. The emphasis is on what really works and what are outdated time management remedies that are no longer applicable in today’s environment.

Time Management Keynotes
Harold Taylor is also available for keynote speeches on time-related topics that are fast-paced, humorous and motivational. Whether you need an opening or closing keynote, a luncheon speaker or an after dinner speaker, Harold will tailor his talk to the occasion.