Personal Development Skills
Time Management
Overview
• Do you put off more today than you can ever accomplish tomorrow…
• Exhaust yourself by 4:00 p.m. with only a fraction of your work done…
• See yourself as a decision maker who never gets time to make decisions…
• Dread the ringing phone, the knock on the door, the next business meeting?
Who Should Attend
If you’re doing more and enjoying it less...it’s time to get out of the time trap and back to productive management. This fast-track program will give you practical techniques for controlling time and making it a manageable resource.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites
Benefits of Completing This Course
• Become more efficient and meet more goals
• Feel calmer and more in control
• Have more energy
• Improve your patience, persistence, self
discipline and confidence
Inclusions
- Training Manual with step-by-step instructions
- Practice files relevant to the training material
- Training Completed files - you are free to take away any completed files for review
- Unlimited online support, as training doesn't stop when you walk out our door
Learning Outcomes
• I dentify own time management preferences
• Learn to set goals and plan your day
• Learn to prioritise tasks
• Identify tasks that can be delegated
• Develop action plans
• Improve Personal organisation and effectiveness
• Learn to dealing with Interruptions
• Develop a balancing between work and play
Topics Covered
Principles of Time Management
● Personality types and time management
● Productivity cycles
● 80-20 Rule
● Goals, objectives and priorities - To do lists - Setting Priorities - Urgent/Important Matrix - Daily plan / Rule of 3 / Accountability
Time Management Plans
● Time management plans
● Daily plans
● Obstacles to Planning
Increasing your Efficiency
● Organisation skills
● Focus
● Motivation
● Overcoming procrastination
● Decision making
● Habitual Behaviour and improving habits
● Making your workplace work
● Technology and Time Management
● Managing emails
● Productive telephone time
Effective Communication
● Focus
● Being an Effective listener
Productivity
● Interruptions and meetings
● Co-workers interruptions
● Conducting proactive meetings
● Keys to productive meetings
● Factors affecting productivity
● Goal Setting
● Prioritising - urgent and important
Dealing with Information Overload
● Causes of Information overload
● Overcoming information overload
● Organising your office
● Record keeping
● Making your filing system work
Putting your Skills to Work
● Effective meeting management
● Improve personal time management skills
Live online - learn by doing.
Our Live Online courses are conducted through a dedicated learning platform that enables us to provide instructor-led, hands-on training to develop real skills, in real time. Each participant logs into their own virtual environment set up specifically for the course. This is a fully interactive experience - just like in a classroom. No passive lectures, no videos to follow - real-time, hands-on practice with your instructor guiding you every step.
Instructor
- Provides real-time, live hands-on instruction and demonstration
- Provides step-by-step practical activities for participants
- Can assist participants on their screen, if necessary
- Can share participant screens to enhance discussion
Participants
- Receive hands-on instruction, step-by-step exercises and skill-builder activities
- See the instructor's screen while working in their own environment
- Can interact with the instructor and the group of participants
- Can ask questions at any time
- Join the course from any location with internet, using a course invitation
- No need for any software - just a computer with internet and a browser
- No downloads or installs necessary on the participant's computer
Inclusions
- E-Book Training Manual / activity booklet provided
- Certificate of Completion
- Post-course support to the level of the course
- Access to any training exercises used during the session
Session Times
- Full Day Course: 9:00am - 4:30pm
- Half Day Course: 9:00am - 12:30pm or 1:30pm - 5:00pm
Private sessions are booked exclusively for your team and can be facilitated as Live Online group training, or in a Classroom / Face-to-Face setting at your workplace or another organised location. Content and duration can be tailored to your needs - contact our Course Scheduling team to discuss your requirements.
Classroom / Face-to-Face
Classroom sessions are delivered at a nominated location, available for Private courses only.
Requirements (if training is delivered at your site)
- No individual computers are required for participants - this course is discussion, activity and workbook-based
- The instructor will bring their own laptop - please provide power
- A screen or projector for the trainer to connect their laptop to (please indicate the connection method - HDMI or Wi-Fi)
Inclusions
- Training Manual / activity booklet
- Certificate of Completion
- Post-course support for queries relating to the course content
Get in touch with our Course Scheduling team to arrange a private session or confirm delivery options for a specific date.