Effective Time Management
Duration - Half-day
This interactive course provides delegates with practical strategies, tools and techniques to help manage their time pro-actively at work and at home. The programme helps delegates understand how they currently manage their time and then assists in the development of new habits to increase and maintain their efficiency throughout the day.
The course incorporates accelerated learning techniques and is run in an informal style involving individual and group activities. The emphasis is on practical strategies to use both personally and professionally.
Course Content
Understanding time, time traps and wasters:
- How you spend your time
- The hurry pattern
- Procrastination
- Interruptions
- Habits and the brain
- Identifying time wasters and blockers
Seven Practical Strategies:
- Understand yourself and your body clock
- Prioritise and plan – the power of ‘NOW’, effective prioritisation and goal setting
- Take control – saying ‘no’ and effectively using resources
- Develop your power tools – a rapid introduction to visual overviews, effective skimming and scanning
- Use technology effectively – emails and other technology
- Manage your personal energy level – breaks, brain food and planning ‘down time’
- Enhance the space around you - your working environment
Action Planning
- Additional time saving tips
- Personal planning and goal setting
- Reviewing progress
The programme is interlaced with brain breaks and energy enhancers, incorporating desk exercises and energy boosting techniques to provide the optimum environment for learning.
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