Time Management
How will I benefit?
After the course you will be able to:
- Pinpoint time management problems hindering personal effectiveness
- Identify habitual ‘time stealers’ and know how to reduce these
- Summarise different ways to plan and prioritise use of time
- Explain how to optimise time on a daily basis
- Return to the workplace with a personal action plan to improve time management
Who should attend?
You will find this course helpful if:
- find yourself rushing to get tasks completed, or have a habit of missing deadlines
- tend to put things off, thinking that you will have more time later to get things done
- sometimes feel overwhelmed with everything that you need to do
- have trouble saying no and don’t feel confident in delegation and negotiation
- find that meetings are a waste of time
- get to the end of the day, wondering where the time has gone and why you have not achieved what you intended to
Course Outline / Key Topics
- Session 1: Becoming time conscious
- How much time do you have at your disposal, and are you optimising it?
- Danger signals - what could indicate that you are not using your time wisely?
- Time logging
- Time stealers
- Session 2: Optimising time
- Factors that can contribute to a feeling of being disorganised, and how you can reduce these
- Planning and prioritisation tools and techniques
- Being assertive and delegating effectively
- Using negotiation and effective meeting management to optimise time
- Can digital tools help you manage your time better?
- Helping your reports to make best use of their time to achieve their objectives