Time Management
Three Days to Turbo-Boost your Time and Task Management
Description
Most people have learnt some time management theory or techniques during their professional career yet most people complain of never having enough time to finish their tasks as well as they want.
Sometimes we need to revisit basic theory and techniques from a fresh perspective and sometimes we need to upgrade some of our old outdated ways of viewing the topic of time and task management.
This essential three day training workshop will help you to assess how you are doing, where you can improve and how you can go about setting up time management systems and habits that are sustainable and enable you see real results in your output and daily experience of handling a complex and heavy workload.
This training workshop will feature:
• Prioritization matrixes and how to use them in day to- day planningand decision-making
• Dealing effectively with time management obstacles such as procrastination, interruptions and getting distracted
• How to work smarter, not harder to leverage your time and output
• Using technology to your advantage at work
• How to get goals and achieve them through self, time and task management
Course Objectives
By attending this ICL training course, participants will be able:
• Identify what time and priority management is
• Apply time management principles
• Be able to manage their work time effectively
• Be productive with handling meetings
• Organize information files
• Use office technology effectively
• Set realistic goals for tasks and activities
• Draw up a plan to organize tasks and activities
• Manage priorities by setting personal and work goals
• Increase work effectiveness and productivity by prioritizing
• Enjoy a more balanced lifestyle through minimizing time wasters
• Become more assertive and delegating tasks
• Feel more in control of daily activities
• Reduce the stress which results from a lack of effective time planning
• Delegates will learn skills which will improve planning, assertiveness, setting priorities, decision making, desk and paper management, and communication skills.
• Manage themselves to get things done on time
• Be able to do effective weekly planning
• Be able to prioritize and schedule tasks
• Deal with interruptions and make effective decisions which affect time positively.
Who is this Training Course for?
Company employees wishing to take more control of the way they spend and manage time.
The Course Content
Day One:
Module 1
• Time Management & Self- Management
• Knowing yourself better
• Clarifying your purpose and vision
• Challenging bad habits - creating new ones
• Understanding your job
Module 2
• The four generations of time management
• Pareto analysis
• Time Log
Guiding principles of time and self management -Planning and controlling your workload
• Keeping yourself motivated to achieve tasks
• Reducing travel time and how to optimally use the time available to you
• Managing communication
• Small group exercise with presentation feedback and group discussion
Day Two:
Module 3
• Getting organised
• Weekly Planning
• Monthly planning
• Keeping your agreements
• Increasing your focus
Module 4
Prioritising workload and key tasks -Need for task prioritisation and ‘Eating your frogs’
• Methods of task prioritisation
• Presentation, group discussion and individual exercises
Day Three:
Module 5
• Time wasters
• Procrastination
• Time wasting meetings
Module 6
Delegating tasks -Defining delegation and identifying why we tend not to delegate
• Benefits and art of effective delegation
• Presentation, demonstration, group exercise and facilitated group review