Effective Time Management
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Overview

Course duration:
1 day.

This course helps to answer the age old question of “where does all my time go?” It identifies how precious time and gives you proven techniques to effectively protect and manage it.

Through practical exercises, examination of proven time management tools and techniques the course will give you ability to plan and prioritise effectively.

This is a highly practical workshop which shows how and where your time is lost and what impact that has on you and others.

Is it right for me?
This course is for busy people who want to be able to manage their time in the most effective way possible.

What will I learn?
-To regard time as a resource to be managed
-Identify and focus on your objectives and key areas of responsibilities
-Establish and overcome the causes of poor time management
-Identify and deal with time stealers
-Prioritise your tasks and the unexpected
-Increase personal and team productivity to achieve a greater work/life balance.

Pre-course Activity
Participants will need to identify what the key areas of work which they consider to be the most important to their role and the most urgent (they may be one and the same or very different!).

What will it cover?
Defining Time
-What do we mean by time management?
-Being able to recognise what good and poor time management is?

Managing Yourself
-Defining what you are expected to achieve in your role
-Linking your objectives to key result areas
-Identify your responsibilities and priorities
-Being able to set goals and objectives for yourself
-Choosing your long-term goals and how they can help your planning
-Defining your personal time stealers and how to deal with them

Planning and Prioritising
-Identifying key tips and techniques on how to prioritise your workload
-Using modern planning tools to optimum effect to develop proactive planning
-Controlling your email
-Scheduling tools in Outlook
-Using your Blackberry / PDA 
- Identifying how to balance your focus and energies when managing your time 
- How to use the key criteria for prioritising
-Time management practical application exercises

Making it Work
-Q & A session on other time management issues
-Practical exercise to review your time issues
-Creating a practical and personal action plan to implement back in the workplace
-Making a promise (using the network of participants to support you implementing your plan
 
Tools
 
Key Details
Duration1 day
 
£569
per delegate
 
 
Bookings Helpline: 01933 233884 (Monday to Thursday - 8:00am to 5:30pm and Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm).