Time Management Skills

Course Overview

This time management skills course enables you to develop and implement time management tools and techniques that give you more control of the time you have and how it is used.

 This course enables participants to identify areas of their role where time could and should be better utilised and also more effective ways to plan for and prioritise the many things that have to be done.

The time management skills course explores why we do what we do: the paradigms we have been taught and habits we have adopted and sub-consciously apply, some of which are no longer appropriate or necessary due to technological innovation, change of role, change of law, change of culture. We all carry unnecessary baggage.

This course is facilitated in a fun and interactive style to identify that baggage and thereby produce permanent, positive change. The ability to make informed decisions such as when good enough is good enough and the ability to ensure innovations in technology work for us not against us, enabling us to stop the tyranny of the smart phone and tablet.

Course Description

On this time management course we identify the complementary skills that are key to time-management, such as delegation, assertiveness, people and communication skills and identify how these can be applied to greater effect.

Techniques and best practices are shared so that participants can experiment with what best suits them depending on their role and responsibilities, body clock (are they a morning or evening person) and personal responsibilities (family, social, community.)

We explore how it is possible to have a better work:life balance without neglecting either and thereby reduce stress levels; how to defend your diary without causing offence or being seen as negative or unco-operative.

Barriers and challenges to effective time management

• Individual

• Organisational

• Cultural

Principles of effective time management

• Identifying the ‘time robbers’ and exploring strategies to thwart them

• Back to basics – clarifying what you should be doing

• Job descriptions

• Key performance indicators

Prioritising and planning effectively

• The urgent and important matrix

• Defending your diary

• Managing interruptions

• Saying “no” positively and without causing offence

Exploring effective time management tools and techniques

• Using time logs to see where your time is actually going

• To do lists

• Block time