Date: December 8 to 9, 2014
Venue: Lovely Professional University, Phagwara

Background & Rationale
Workshop on ‘Time Management and Decision Making Skills’, a Corporate Training Program was organised at Lovely Professional University for staff members of GENESIS HEALTH & FITNESS. Ms. Sunaina Ahuja, Associate Professor & Dy. Dean and Mr. Sarabjit Singh Kwatra, Assistant Director, Lovely Professional University were the key facilitators.

The Workshop focused on increased performance and productivity through time management. The participants learn how to divide their time in important and urgent activities. The 80-20 principles were also discussed with them. Effective decision making skills and decision making process were also discussed with the help of activities. The schedule carried a multi pronged approach that included inputs, group discussions, case based analysis, role plays and finally presentations by the participants illustrating their findings.

The Focus pointers were:
• Self Awareness and Self Management
• Time Management vs Priority Management
• The Time Spent Analysis
• Urgent vs Important
• Time Wasters and Distracters
• The principles of Decision Making
• The Dos and Don’t’s of Effective Decision Making

The program received active participation of associates from GENESIS HEALTH & FITNESS. The participants were appreciative of the gesture shown by the University in terms of choice of Subject Matter Experts, appropriate learning environment, venue setting, infrastructure, study tours and content delivery. They were also impressed by the subject expertise of the resource persons. The participants observed that the program was outcome oriented and gave them new insights on the topic. It was crafted to meet the training needs stated by the client. LPU-HRDC is committed to provide tailor made Professional Development Programs for the corporate sector. These training programs also help in strengthening industry-academia relations thus opening new vistas of mutual collaboration.