Time Management Training

This 1-day time management in-house training course is designed to help you make the most out of your time. Today we have more and more demands made upon us at work – tighter deadlines, more work, juggling priorities – you name it!

With this course you will learn skills and techniques to prioritise your work, how to avoid time wasting activities and how to communicate what you want and what you don’t want!

By the end of this course you will know how to get more done, in less time without the stress!

Content:

• A Waste Of Your Time?
  • How are you currently managing your time?
  • Identifying your current time stealers
  • Appreciating the opportunity cost of your time
  • The difference between being “busy” and “productive”
• Prioritising
  • Understanding urgent v import tasks when prioritising work
    • Covey matrix
    • Work scheduling exercise
  • How to organise and schedule your own work and that of others:
    • How to analyze your current “time sapping” tasks and what to do about them
    • Identifying the role delegation plays in this
  • How to prioritise and manage your inbox
• Planning & Monitoring
  • Application of simple planning and monitoring techniques:
    • Understanding the time management matrix
    • Applying the Pareto principle (80/20 Rule) to time management issues
  • Forward thinking and forward planning
• Getting Results Through Others
  • Co-ordinating the efforts of the department/team with forward planning and scheduling
  • 7 different ways to delegate workload
  • Assertiveness skills
    • How to renegotiate deadlines
    • How to “Say no” in different ways