Time Management Training

Course Overview

Fact: Time is money and lots of it gets lost in disorganisation, disruption and chaos.

Do you ever wonder where your workday disappears to? This workshop helps you organise and prioritise for greater workplace efficiency. You will learn to get a grip on your office space, organise your work flow, learn how use your planner effectively, say no without guilt, and delegate some of your work to other people. This workshop is full of ideas for organising your work area and your paperwork and working on the “right” things.

This workshop includes dynamic trainee/trainer interactions and discussions, written and oral exercises, voice recordings, case studies, reflection, quizzes and a workbook for each participant to take back to the workplace.

Target Audience

All individuals and professionals who want to increase their productivity by proactively choosing how and when to invest their time, and those wishing to develop more balance and control over their time commitments.

Course Outline

SECTION 1: Left Brain/Right Brain

1. Two Types of People
2. Case Study
3. The 80 / 20 Principle

SECTION 2: Time Management Principles

1. Time Wasters and Solutions
2. Procrastination and Motivation
3. Time Management Techniques

SECTION 3: Setting Goals

1. Setting SMART Goals
2. The 3 P’s

SECTION 4: Planning

1. Planning Tools
2. Scheduling
3. Five Minutes Before the Hour
4. Prioritising

SECTION 5: The 4 D’s

1. Do it now
2. Dump
3. Delay
4. Delegate

SECTION 6: Delegation
1. What to delegate
2. The reasons to delegate
3. The six steps to delegation
4. Resisting delegating
5. Delegation log
6. Access

SECTION 7: Organising your Workspace

1. Tips for better Organisation
2. Sorting and Batching

SECTION 8: Organising your E-mails

1. Tips for better Management

SECTION 9: Managing your Workload

1. Case Study: Marvellous Mary
2. Workload Analysis

SECTION 10: Work / Life Balance

1. Setting Daily Rituals
2. Vital Areas of your Life
3. Stress
4. Warning Signals
5. The “Less Stress” Lesson