Managing Multiple Tasks, Priorities & Deadlines Certificate (CPE)
- Capture all current commitments in a single trusted task list and classify them by project, deadline and owner.
- Prioritise competing tasks using the Eisenhower matrix and impact-effort scoring.
- Plan multi-step assignments backwards from deadlines with milestones and buffers.
- Negotiate deadlines and scope with multiple requesters using clear, evidence-based conversations.
- Apply focus techniques such as time blocking and batching to reduce interruptions and context switching.
- Understanding Workload Pressure
- Causes of overload and missed deadlines
- Myths of multitasking and the cost of context switching
- Assessing personal work patterns
- Capturing and Organising Commitments
- Building a single trusted task system
- Breaking work into next actions
- Using Outlook, Teams and task tools effectively
- Prioritisation Methods
- Eisenhower urgent-important matrix
- Impact-effort and value-based prioritisation
- Daily and weekly priority reviews
- Planning to Meet Deadlines
- Backward planning and milestones
- Estimating effort and adding buffers
- Tracking progress across parallel tasks
- Managing Requests and Expectations
- Clarifying requests and acceptance criteria
- Saying no and renegotiating deadlines professionally
- Status updates to multiple stakeholders
- Protecting Focus and Sustaining Performance
- Time blocking, batching and focus sessions
- Handling interruptions and email overload
- Energy management and avoiding burnout
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Program Professional Framework
Managing Multiple Tasks, Priorities & Deadlines Certificate (CPE)
Program Overview
When several managers, projects and urgent requests compete for the same day, professionals need a reliable system rather than more effort. This programme provides practical methods to capture all commitments, prioritise by impact and urgency, plan backwards from deadlines, protect focus time, handle interruptions, and negotiate realistic deadlines when demands exceed capacity. Participants build a personal workload management system using digital tools they already use, such as Outlook and Teams, and practise communicating priorities and progress to multiple stakeholders.
Learning Outcomes
- ✓Capture all current commitments in a single trusted task list and classify them by project, deadline and owner.
- ✓Prioritise competing tasks using the Eisenhower matrix and impact-effort scoring.
- ✓Plan multi-step assignments backwards from deadlines with milestones and buffers.
- ✓Negotiate deadlines and scope with multiple requesters using clear, evidence-based conversations.
- ✓Apply focus techniques such as time blocking and batching to reduce interruptions and context switching.
Target Audience
- Administrative and executive assistants supporting several managers
- Project coordinators and team members juggling multiple assignments
- Specialists in shared service and support functions
- Supervisors managing competing operational demands
Detailed Program Modules
01Understanding Workload Pressure
- Causes of overload and missed deadlines
- Myths of multitasking and the cost of context switching
- Assessing personal work patterns
02Capturing and Organising Commitments
- Building a single trusted task system
- Breaking work into next actions
- Using Outlook, Teams and task tools effectively
03Prioritisation Methods
- Eisenhower urgent-important matrix
- Impact-effort and value-based prioritisation
- Daily and weekly priority reviews
04Planning to Meet Deadlines
- Backward planning and milestones
- Estimating effort and adding buffers
- Tracking progress across parallel tasks
05Managing Requests and Expectations
- Clarifying requests and acceptance criteria
- Saying no and renegotiating deadlines professionally
- Status updates to multiple stakeholders
06Protecting Focus and Sustaining Performance
- Time blocking, batching and focus sessions
- Handling interruptions and email overload
- Energy management and avoiding burnout
Training Methodology
Applied Project & Assessment
Applied Project
Participants set up their personal workload management system, prioritise their real task list, produce a two-week backward plan for their most critical deadline and script one deadline renegotiation conversation.
Assessment
Short diagnostic at the start, practical tasks linked to each learning outcome, and evaluation of the applied project against published criteria.
