Stress & Time Management for Finance Managers

Specific Outcomes:
Stress Management for Finance Managers
• Defining stress
o DIAGNOSTIC ACTIVITY: Online Stress levels gauge
• Perception of stress
• Types of stress
o Time
o Anticipatory
o Situational
o Encounter
• Causes of stress, as Finance Manager
o Workplace e.g. Difficult clients
o Personal e.g. Dealing with loss/grief
• Applying the Pyramid Approach
• Outcomes of stress
• As a Finance Manager, developing stress management/coping strategies
o Individual
o Organizational
• As a Finance Manager, building Assertiveness Skills
o Definition
o Characteristics
o Strategies
• Developing resilience skills
• Developing Emotional Intelligence
o Self-regulation/control (i.e. when managing difficult and challenging people and situations)
• Mindfulness training
o CASE STUDY: Whose got the Monkey – Learning to say no
• Work-Life Balance
o Applying the Wheel of Life
• Personal Effectiveness and Lifestyle Management – applying the Sharpen the Saw habit
• Employee wellness and –Assistance Programmes
o Counseling
o Therapy
o Personal Financial Management

Specific Outcomes:
Time Management for Finance Managers
• Understanding time management principles and practice
• Understand that the world is a set of related systems and that lack of time management in one area of the organization will impact on the performance of others in the organization
• As a Finance Manager, identify current time management profiles and utilization of time
• As a Finance Manager, identifying time wasters – environmental and personal (self-generated)
• Identifying time management problems (counter-productive work practices) and their respective solutions
• As a Finance Manager, applying the following time management tools and techniques:
o Goal setting
o Time and activity management log/audit
o To-Do list o Prioritization (A-B-C)
o Scheduling
• Practical time management guidelines to improve efficiency/productivity, as a Finance Manager
• Practicing the “4 Ds” of effective time management
• Planning your day as a Finance Manager – the guidelines, principles, resources and time frame
• Draw up and implement time efficient work plans to carry out department/division work functions Consolidatory session
• Reflective learning and introspection – gap analysis lessons learned
• Integration into Stress Management (Life and Work) Plan to enhance personal effectiveness, as a Finance Manager