Practical Time Management Skills
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As working environments grow ever more hectic and demanding, the majority of the workforce faces increased workloads and competing priorities. Forward thinking organisations are recognising the need to manage valuable time more wisely through constructive planning and prioritising both in order to maximise the value of your output and minimise the stress that has become a daily part of working life.
- Turning 'Theory' into 'Practice'?
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Benefiting from time management principles and best practice tools and techniques, you will return to work ready to focus your energy, take control, work more effectively and improve productivity. This programme will help you discover a new time perspective on your life and just how valuable it is!
- Who should attend?
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This course is applicable to anyone who has ever felt they are juggling too many tasks at one time, who wants to be more in control of their life and become more effective and productive in the workplace.
- Key areas to be covered in the programme and documentation
Goal Setting
Establishing life goals and work/life balance
Creating wish lists
Developing a strategy and long term, intermediate and short term goal settingTime Management Styles
Maximising the positive aspects of your time management style
How your style creates pressure
Using your body clock to achieve efficiency
The way that you work and how it impacts on others
Working with other peoples time management styles
Learning to say no and not feel guiltyBest Practice Time Management
Focusing on goals to succeed
Learning to take control of timeCreating Good Habits
The formation of good and bad habits
Continuous improvement through creating good habits
Building self disciplinePlanning
The importance of planning
Different methods of planningEffective Prioritisation
Prioritising when all tasks are urgent
Setting systems and criteria for prioritised work
Annual, monthly, weekly and daily prioritisationUsing Time Management Aids Effectively
Diaries, planners, to do lists, time management systems, PDAs, PC based systemsTime Logs|
Monitoring and costing time
Evaluate the cost/benefit of your time to your organisationBenefit from Better Meetings
Which meetings need your time?
The cost of meetings to your organisation
How to make meetings more time effectiveDelegation for Maximum Time Efficiency
Why every manager must delegate
A step by step guide to delegatingEliminating your Time Wasters and Weaknesses
Identifying and managing major time wasters
Dealing with excess paper and managing your office environment
Dealing with e-mails, interruptions and visitors
Taking control of the telephoneTips, Tricks and Techniques
Quick fix ideas
Time duellingMaking it happen when you return to work
Every delegate leaves with a personal action plan developed with the trainer of the event
Every delegate has selected the techniques that will personally create the most impact for them back in their workplace
- Benefits to you
- Recognising the immense value of effective time management
Clarifying your own and your teams objectives, responsibilities and priorities
Proactively planning and using your time more effectively
Eliminating your time wasters and weaknesses
Benefiting from better meetings, improved delegation, reduced stress levels and higher productivity
Applying the time management techniques and practices you have learnt immediately on returning to work
- Companies already benefiting include:
- Duration of Course
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2 Day Course
- Course details
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- Testimonials
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"This course will allow my company to develop its existing strategies to a much greater and hopefully profitable level."
Managing Director, Tarmac