Overview
Course duration: 2 days.
This course brings time to life through practical exercises, tools and techniques which show just where time is lost, its impact on you and others – then shows you how effective prioritisation and management of time can make a difference to your work/life balance.
This highly practical workshop focuses on improved management of time and priorities. It shows how and where your time is lost. You will be given proven tools, tips and techniques which challenge your approach to your workload and help you regain control.
Is it right for me?
If you are a team leader, supervisor or professional who wants to ‘step up’ your productivity through better use of your time.
What will I learn?
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Value time as a resource for yourself, your team and your business
- Focus on your objectives and key areas of responsibilities
- Establish and overcome the causes of poor time management
- Identify and deal with time stealers
- Prioritise your tasks and the unexpected
- Plan ahead and minimise the demands and pressures of your job
- Delegate tasks successfully to free up some of your time
- Increase personal and team productivity to achieve a greater work/life balance.
Pre-course Activity
Completing a time log for a minimum period of two days is a requirement of the workshop. This will help you to establish how you currently spend your time whilst identifying opportunities for you to put into practice the tools, tips and techniques in your role.
What will it cover?
Managing yourself
- What are you there to achieve?
- Linking objectives to key result areas
- What are you responsibilities and priorities?
- Goal setting for yourself
- Long term goals and how they can help your planning
- Defining your personal timestealers
Planning and prioritising
- How to prioritise your workload
- How to use priority ratings
- Using planning tools to optimum effect
- Time management practical application exercise
- Controlling your email
- Scheduling tools in Outlook
- How to use the key criteria for prioritising
- Proactive planning
Managing your communications
- Listening and questioning skills
- Controlling your email
- Handling phone interruptions
- Reading and writing – speedily and effectively
- Managing meetings
Working with others
- Managing expectations of your workload to others
- Saying ‘no’ assertively (even to the boss)
- What is delegation and how to delegate successfully
Managing your work environment every day
- Coping with the paper and the in box
- Taking control of your time
- Problem solving and decision making to save your time
- Managing your stress levels
- Reviewing tips for working on the move
Action planning
- Health checks
- Staying in control of workload
- The future
Further courses to consider
Developing Your Personal Impact and Building Productive Relationships
Trainer Profile
Ian Sanders
View a short video of Ian talking about this course.
‘There aren’t enough hours in the day’
‘Too much to do and too little time to do it in’
‘Everything seems to be urgent’
These are some of the time management issues I hear on my courses. You want to be able to cope with the demands and pressures of your jobs, achieve greater productivity and strike a better work / life balance.
I relish the challenge of working with my delegates to plan, prioritise and manage their workloads more effectively, and drawing on many years’ experience in a number of high pressure roles will aim to put you at ease and work individually with you to help transfer your new skills to the workplace.
The Faculty
Along with Matt Plant, Julia Dickson, Nigel Amphlett and Charlotte Cameron, Ian Sanders is part of the dedicated faculty team who will deliver this course. The initials next to each date below indicate which trainer is scheduled to deliver which event.
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Recent delegates have said:
"Really enjoyed the course. I feel positive about going back to work and putting these ideas into practice."
Testimonial
Melanie Butel, Treasury Accountant
Zenith Insurance
Everything on this course has helped me deal with prioritising and planning my workload better. I was able to apply new ideas on delegation and task planning as soon as I returned to the office.