Time Management

Course Overview

The course aim is to develop excellent planning, prioritising, delegation and decision-making skills which support delegates in managing their work and responsibilities. 

Delegates will also learn practical problem solving and decision-making skills to enable them to manage their time more effectively.

Delegates will leave with an action plan of how they intend to apply their skills to proactive, improve their personal performance and demonstrate responsibility for their own learning, development and progression.  

Content

• Establishing your role and responsibilities. 

• What effect does good planning and prioritising have on you, your team and the organisation?

• Planning and prioritising using Covey’s Quadrants

• Discuss tools and techniques that can be used to work effectively through tasks, emails, people development, meetings, and team workload

• Using the productivity CORD model – Capture & Collect, Organise, Review, Do.

• Scheduling work based on your attention level

• Managing your inbox to zero

• Delegation of tasks

Which Tasks Are Best To Delegate And Who To Delegate To

Techniques For Effective Delegation

• Decision-making and how it impacts on time management

The Importance Of Considering The Impacts To Stakeholders When Decision Making.

The 8-Step Decision Making Model

• The importance of understanding others’ roles when deciding how to prioritise tasks

• Complete personal action plan at end of training and commit to sharing it with line manager to ensure its application

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course delegates will have the skills to:

• Use Covey’s quadrants time management grid to

• define the difference between urgent and important tasks

  to ensure 75% + tasks are in the important not urgent quadrant to maximise productivity and minimise stress

• Be conscientious about meeting deadlines, overcoming challenges, managing workload and pressures well

• Drive self and others to deliver outcomes and meet deadlines and objectives; and take the initiative to make things happen

• Implement practical time management techniques

• Delegate and streamline work effectively

• Take responsibility for own actions and decisions, actively using the skill to manage time effectively

• Clarify decisions and think through the implications of own decisions before prioritising and re-aligning work effectively

• Be proactive, improve own personal performance and demonstrate responsibility for own learning, development and progression

• Understand and commit to prioritising workload effectively