Time Management Basics

Course Content

Course Overview
 -  Learning Objectives

Time Robbers
 - Self Inflicted Time Robbers
 - Time Robbers Imposed by Others

The Prioritisation Grid
 - How the Prioritisation Grid Works
 - Urgent versus Important
 - Maintaining Responsibility

Planning
 - Planning Tools
 - Using a Planner
 - Exercise: Planning a Get-Together

Setting Goals
 - The Importance of Setting Goals
 - Knowing What You Want to Accomplish
 - SMART Goals

Getting Organised
 - Strategy, Choice and Making a Difference
 - Organising your Workspace
 - Effective E-mail Operation
 - The Batching Technique

The Four D’s
 - Do, Dump, Delay, and Delegate
 - Guidelines for Keeping a Piece of Paper

A Personal Action Plan

Course Aims

This half-day workshop is designed to familiarise delegates with common problems that arise in the workplace, and solutions to them.  Through group discussion and questions directed to the instructor, delegates will also be able to consider improvements that will help them in their own working lives.

At the end of this workshop, delegates will be able to:
 -  Understand common sources of poor time management
 -  Recognise and solve problems in their own workplace
 -  Understand how to set and achieve goals
 -  Take control of things that would derail productivity

Workbook and Reference Guide

The delegate workbook forms the basis for discussion and note taking during the workshop, but it also includes explanations that are intended to enable its use as a reference guide afterwards.

Target Audience

Anyone who needs to manage their time !  This includes senior managers, line managers and supervisors, administrators, project managers and many more ...