Time Management

Time is one of the most important assets at work and everyone has a responsibility to ensure it is well managed. This doesn’t always mean being ‘maxed’ out – it’s about getting balance into your life to ensure your priorities are taken care of.

This one day programme will help you develop a strategy for ‘event control’ and give you a range of tools and techniques to help you plan and organise yourself to be effective
 
Outcomes
 
You will learn about:
  • your own work style and how this helps and hinders your time management
  • how to establish and plan in your own priorities
  • how to plan work around your most productive times
  • how to deal with interruptions so they cause minimal impact
  • avoid procrastination and ‘swallow the frog’!
  • setting goals with time lines and milestones
  • how to decide if a task is urgent , or important or both
  • how to make your outlook or diary work for you
 
Who should attend?
Time management is a key competency for all people at work and this programme will benefit anyone who has any element of control and influence about when they do things. 
 
Pre-work
Participants will be required to log their work activities for a typical day or two, prior to the programme. This will be analysed during the event to help see what happens during a typical working day and where improvements can be made.
 
Post course actions
At the end of the day participants will be asked to write a letter to themselves of actions and good intent – these will be collected and returned six weeks afterwards to help reinforce the lessons learnt!
 
Course content
 
Current audit
  • areas I’m good at/ not so good at?
  • the impact of personal work style
 
Procrastination
  • favourite areas?
  • ‘swallow the frog’ – do it now
 

Planning & Prioritising
  • what prompts my choice?
  • understanding my work categories
  • analysing my time log (pre-work)
  • making ‘me time’
 
Deadlines
  • best practice to follow/ pitfalls to avoid
  • keeping on track
  • managing the flow of work  
 
Outlook use
  • Daily planning
  • Schedule the balance  
 
Interruptions
  • saying no nicely
  • limiting the damage
 
Work area & communication tools
  • desk and  paperwork routines
  • voice mail and telephone disciplines
  • email and web control
  • working from home
 
Personal action plan
  • review of your action points to work on
  • letters to self of actions to work on
 
 
Maximum number of delegates: 12
 
Cost: 1 unit
 
To register please email our Training Co-ordinator on .com
registrations@thelearningcollaboration.com

Download: /object/course/7205/doc/TLC_Time Management (D&G).pdf