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Al Hassan conducts Time Management Workshop (28 April 2011)

The Al Hassan Management Development Center (MDC) conducted a Workshop - Success through Time Management on 27 April 2011 at Haffa House Hotel. This is the fourth workshop conducted by Al Hassan MDC in order to help employees manage their time and be effective in their personal and professional lives. This workshop was attended by 29 participants comprising Executives to Dy. Managers. The program was conducted by in-house faculty; Sanjay Khandagle, Head - Talent Management and Adeel Naqvi, Executive-IT Dept.

The one day workshop addressed the following objectives:

Understand the concept of time and its scarcity

Realise the importance of time in our own lives

Learn the art of using the right strategies to manage time

Balance your work life & family life

Manage stress by managing time

Make Time Management a habit for doing the best in personal & professional life.

The program was made interesting and highly interactive through case studies, audio-video inputs apart from lectures. Various psychological games were also introduced to understand the Goal orientation of the participants.

The workshop was inaugurated by Shahzad Sadan, GM-Organisational Development. He addressed the employees to become successful by Managing time. He reiterated the following, "Being successful does not make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful."

One of the hallmarks of successful people is that they manage their time well and do all that to get what they want. They reach the pinnacle of success by managing themselves in all spheres of life. Let us learn from the best people who have succeeded and use the tools and techniques to make us successful and our life happier.

The employees also took the assessment on their 'Time Management Behavior' and they were able to make an action plan to manage their time and more so manage themselves. The entire focus was on understanding oneself to manage oneself. The IT tool of MS Outlook was explained in detail so that employees will use the tool properly and utilize their time productively. 90% of the participants gave excellent feedback and all of them wanted the program to be conducted for all employees.

A follow-up workshop will be conducted to look at the challenges faced by employees in implementing the learnings.

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