Master your attention and energy to achieve what truly matters. This course equips leaders with practical strategies to prioritize, plan, and perform, transforming busy into productive.
Welcome to "Time Mastery for Modern Leaders," a vital course equipping current and aspiring leaders with practical strategies for prioritizing, planning, and performing with exceptional efficiency. In today's fast-paced world, effective time management transcends mere productivity—it's about intentional leadership and sustainable impact.
This course will empower you to:
Join Maria Conde, an experienced CPA, CGA, and certified coach with over 30 years in leadership, as she guides you through transforming your approach to time. Discover why managing your attention, energy, and priorities within time is more crucial than time management itself. You'll learn to categorize your time into deep work, shallow work, reactive work, meetings, and personal time, gaining awareness of where your efforts truly go. Utilize tools like the Eisenhower Matrix and the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) to make intentional prioritization a core leadership skill.
Transition from reactive to intentional leadership by implementing a rigorous weekly CEO reset ritual. Learn to "work on the business" rather than perpetually "in the business," designing your week to reflect your strategic vision. The course delves into effective time management techniques such as time blocking, theme days, and power hours, helping you reclaim control over your schedule.
Finally, unlock the power of delegation—not as a burden, but as a development tool for your team. Understand the four levels of delegation and use clear communication scripts to empower your team, fostering growth and shared responsibility without micromanagement. Crucially, explore the significance of boundaries: seeing them not as rigid walls but as kind, clear communications that protect your time, energy, and mental well-being, fostering a culture of respect and sustainable productivity within your organization. This course provides the framework to lead by example, cultivating a workplace where authenticity, balance, and effectiveness thrive.
Success & Mindset Coach for Leaders and Entrepreneurs
Maria Conde is a CPA with 30+ years of leadership, business, and finance experience. She retired from the corporate world to run two of her own businesses. Alongside of accounting she is a Certified Professional Coach with specialties in health, confidence, money and mindset. She also creates leadership courses for professional development both online and in person facilitation.
This portal is provided as a training and development resource for City of Markham employees. Every course is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, is quantifiable in hours, and is verifiable — you receive a documented certificate of completion for every course you finish, stored on LearnFormula indefinitely.
If you hold a professional designation (for example in engineering, accounting, human resources, or law), courses may be counted as professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities toward your continuing professional development. Individual practitioners are responsible for confirming that an activity meets the requirements of their professional body. For questions about the City of Markham's training and development policies, please speak with your people leader or Human Resources.
