These systems prove to be effective at first, but seem to get forgotten over time and people fall back to their bad habits once more.
Description
Old Aphorism
Everyone needs to deal with incoming “stuff” on a daily basis, whether they are mails, emails, calls, information packs, messages, your own thoughts or even random events like the breakdown of your car.
We need to deal with a collection of unrelated stuff at work and at home using only “one” mind. If you increase your efficiency in dealing with these, you stand to gain enormously.
Many systems exits and numerous productivity books and courses attempt to impose one system or other to their audience. These systems prove to be effective at first, but seem to get forgotten over time and people fall back to their bad habits once more.
Over time, as more systems are learned and tested, a sense of hopeless develops that no matter what time management system is used, the result is never good.
Our Approach
At Skills Converged, we deliver the Time Management course continuously and we have realised that imposing any particular system on delegates does not necessarily lead to increased productivity.
As a result, we have tailored this course to make it as effective as possible not just in the short term, but also in the long term.
To achieve this, the course focuses on fundamental principles, guidelines, attitudes and organisation systems.
Based on these principles and examples of such systems, delegates form their own system based on their own life style.
In our experience, this has proven to be much more effective and even months after the course, our delegates report that they have become more productive as a result of this course. We are proud of this and continuously work to improve this course.
In this day-long highly practical course delegates will learn:
Attitude Towards Time
How different people look at time and what are the implications of this
What mental techniques can you use to increase your productivity?
What is the impact of perfectionism on your productivity and how can you manage it?
What stops you from starting a task and how can you overcome it?
What techniques can you use to avoid procrastination?
How to take advantage of "dead time"
How to free your mind from thinking continuously about critical tasks
How can you optimise your day based on your capabilities and your workload?
Planning
How to set goals systematically to maximise your productivity
How to set your mission statement based on everything you do in life
Which planning style is better?
How to brainstorm
How to plan if you don’t like planning
What is a bottom-up and top-down approach to productivity?
What is the best way to plan in meetings to make the best use of time and produce a good plan?
Organising
How to organise your physical and digital environments
What reference system works best and what its critical qualities?
What tray system works best?
What calendar system works best?
How to take advantage of GTD principles (Getting Things Done) to organise your life
How to set up and use your calendar using the latest methodologies such as GTD
How to prioritise your tasks based on urgency and importance
How to use GTD with Microsoft Outlook
About Skills Converged
Training People Is Our Passion
At Skills Converged, we believe there is a better way to do training.
Our mission is to help you deliver high impact courses with long lasting results, that takes the least amount of time to deliver.
Above all, we are passionate about training methodologies and design. We are restlessly searching to improve training techniques and share this through the design of our training materials and numerous products on train the trainer such as our best-selling books, courses and articles.
A Note on Site Update - July 2023
We are excited to let you know that we have now completed a major update, giving you a completely redesigned website.
This update has been long in the making so we are excited that we can finally release it to you. We are offering you the same quality products and services as before, though with an improved website interface and functionality.
You Can Now:
Order products with a significantly improved shopping cart and checkout process
Browse the training materials based on categories, length and level
Pay using your own local currency (where possible)
Pay using a variety of payment options including Apple Pay and Google Pay
Open an account so you have a record of all your orders
Browse our free training materials, exercises and activities using multiple tags together to fine-tune the search and find exactly what you want for your courses
And many other features and improvements throughout the site
Our History
Skills Converged was founded in 2008 by Dr Ethan (Ehsan) Honary. With a background in artificial intelligence and space robotics, Ethan became increasingly interested in cognitive psychology, science of learning and eventually the training industry.
His interest and passion in the subject grew strong enough that he eventually decided to leave his full-time job in the space industry to establish a new training company.
Now for more than a decade, Skills Converged has been offering quality training products and services all across the world and has acquired numerous clients including global brands, governments, training agencies and freelancers.
With a background in technology, educational psychology and research, Skills Converged is uniquely positioned to produce state-of-the-art products which none of our competitors can match.
Based in London, we are right at the heart of the training industry in the United Kingdom. We regularly run training courses in London, our most popular one being Train the Trainer course.
We constantly analyse and receive feedback from the training community which allows us to improve the quality of our products rapidly and use this knowledge in the design of our future courses.
This is a continuous process, but one that we love to pursue and that it helps us produce unrivalled products.
The Pillars of Our Design Methodology
We use the following design principles:
Must Lead to Long Term Learning
A training course, delivered in whatever form, is not worth the time or money if attendees are not going to learn or remember the content for long. They might as well not attend.
In the last three decades, we have come a long way in understanding the role of long-term memory in cognition and subsequently in learning and training. We are enthusiastic about these developments and insights and use them throughout our entire design process.
Must Maximise Training Per Unit of Time
Time is a scarce resource. We use accelerated learning principles, experimental learning, knowledge-based learning, participatory learning, and a host of other techniques in the design of our training materials to make sure we can achieve maximum results in the shortest amount of time on any given topic.
Must Be Easy to Use
As a subject matter expert, you know the content well. When it comes to training, most of your focus, as much as 90%, should be on the training activity rather than figuring out what to teach.
We are aware of this principle and work hard to design training materials that are easy to pick up, understand and deliver. With well-designed content, you spend less time figuring out what to cover and more time on how to meet your delegates’ specific training needs. We always aim to save you time.
This course will help you assess your present situation, in terms of work and personal life – focusing on concepts essential to effective time/task management and work planning.
By the conclusion of the specified learning and development activities, delegates will be able to
Ask a busy person….. Take time out to reassess your time management skills. Using proven techniques take greater control of time.
This one-day time management training course explores the need for reflection, planning, organising, setting goals and responding to day-to-day activities and demands.
Today, we have more demands on us than at any time in history at work and home.
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