Time Management

This course seeks to produce a measurable step-change in your overall ability to make effective use of your work and personal time. In a non-threatening way, it will increase self-awareness of your present time challenges. It provides guidelines and techniques that can be shown to work in the realities of the workplace.

You will benefit by learning a flexible, practical way of structuring your day, spending more time on what is important to you and feeling more in control of your time. Increased confidence in managing tasks and achieving a better work-life balance are other typical benefits.

This course will help organisations benefit from increased productivity, fewer delays and enhanced timely achievement of goals. More time will be spent on important value-adding tasks at the expense of the time-consuming unimportant ones.

There are no specific pre-requisites for this course. The training is aimed at people with responsible roles at all levels and all functions that have some discretionary use of their time. It is equally suited to the small business and multi-national.

• Self-assessment of personal time management – creating a SWOT analysis for the team.
• Understanding how personal preferences for behaviour have an impact on time management.
• Goal setting and planning, the importance of SMART objectives in time management.
• Principles of time management: tools and techniques to improve personal time management; action planning, diary management, a flexible daily frame, daily and monthly planning, prioritising your workload the urgent/important matrix.
• Personal time: understanding your prime time, managing interruptions and mastering procrastination.
• Personal time: techniques to help you save time such as mind mapping, information recall and streamlining group / team activities – bring together satellite team.
• Being more assertive – identifying how to make a change in your behavior.
• Managing pressure and coping with stress.
• Learning actions to plan how to move forward.

• Inter-active, relaxed and fun.
• Work-based examples to illustrate concepts.
• Discussions to explore ideas and exercises to consolidate learning.