- your own work style and how this helps and hinders your time management
- how to establish and plan in your own priorities
- how to plan work around your most productive times
- how to deal with interruptions so they cause minimal impact
- avoid procrastination and ‘swallow the frog’!
- setting goals with time lines and milestones
- how to decide if a task is urgent , or important or both
- how to make your outlook or diary work for you
Who should attend?
Time management is a key competency for all people at work and this programme will benefit anyone who has any element of control and influence about when they do things.
Course content
- Current audit
- areas I’m good at/ not so good at?
- the impact of personal work style
- Procrastination
- favourite areas?
- ‘swallow the frog’ – do it now
- Planning & Prioritising
- what prompts my choice?
- understanding my work categories
- analysing my time log (pre-work)
- making ‘me time’
- Deadlines
- best practice to follow/ pitfalls to avoid
- keeping on track
- managing the flow of work
- Outlook use
Daily planning
- Schedule the balance
- Interruptions
- saying no nicely
- limiting the damage
- Work area & communication tools
- desk; and paperwork routines
- voice mail and telephone disciplines
- email and web control
- working from home
- Personal action plan
- review of your action points to work on
- letters to self of actions to work on
Pre-work
Participants will be required to log their work activities for a typical day or two, prior to the programme. This will be analysed during the event to help see what happens during a typical working day and where improvements can be made.
Online Course Outline
There never seems enough time in the day; we can’t create more of it, so we have to get better at using what we have. These workshops are designed to give you strategies to help combat the pressure, bad habits and people who “steal” away your precious time. We will also look at the particular challenges of working from home.
The programme comprises of two virtual sessions (interactive, facilitator lead) combined with pre and post exercises/activities structured and designed to make this as real life and relevant as possible to each individual in order to bring about real, sustainable change.
Objectives
By the end of these sessions you will be able to:
- Understand and work with your own behavioural preferences of how you manage your time
- Establish and manage priorities, both professional and personal
- Plan your time more effectively
- Manage interruptions and beat procrastination
- Set achievable goals
- Work more effectively with others; when and how to delegate
Programme Structure
Session 1:Understanding the challenges to effective Time Management: Personal and Professional Content:
- What makes it hard? Examining the issues
- My attitude: Am I working in the way that works best for me?
- Personal challenges to working from home
- Driver questionnaire
- Time log
- Prioritisation
- Managing interruptions
- Avoiding procrastination
- Maintaining a work life balance
- The art of delegation
- Personal Eisenhower Matrix
- Ted Talk – gaining control
- Intent – personal reflection, action planning
| Duration: 2 x 3 hour sessions and pre and post work | Credits: 1.6 |
| Max. Delegates: 8 | Member Cost: £240.00+VAT |
| CPD Points: 6.5 | Non-Member Cost: £360.00+VAT |
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