Time Management Skills
In many organisations, there will always be too much work and never enough time. However, often the secret to getting ahead of the workload is simply getting started. This is best done by analysing your work load and environment and breaking the complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks. This training is not designed to deliver a total change in your personality; it is designed to give you the skills and knowledge to organise yourself, control your work, and polish your skills to respond effectively to the new realities of work.
- Cost: €450.00
- Duration: 1 day
- Cork Date: 20 Apr, 19 Jun
- Limerick Date:
- Dublin Date: Mar 13, May 21, Jul 11
- This course is also available as a customised client specific course.
People who understand that time management is a choice and that we can all improve our productivity levels. They want to acquire the skills to achieve more in their day to day activities, free up time for projects and develop their career. They require a practical reality-based set of techniques and strategies to be more effective and less stressed.
Having completed this training the participants will:
Understand the importance of their own attitude and beliefs about time in how effectively they manage it.
Identify where they abandon their own priorities and work to reduce the frequency and length of interruptions
Share some of the techniques with the team or colleagues to reinforce the new behaviours
Have a strategy to apply the training content to their organisation by making small changes
Realise that it is what you don’t do that determines what you can do
If you spent the company’s money the way you spend their time
Applying Parkinson’s Law
Identifying where your time is mismanaged
Identifying your most productive time of the day
Soft deadlines Vs hard deadlines
Establishing your core priorities
Using the 80/20 rule
Identifying and dealing with time thieves
Are You your greatest time thief
When to say No
Goal setting techniques
Identifying your key result areas
Priotitising your tasks
Escaping the email avalanche
Using Ms Outlook as a time saving and scheduling tool
Using planning tools
What you plan or how you plan
Five point planning checklist
Scheduling horizontally not vertically
Abandoning habits that waste time
How your team impacts on your work management
Identifying who wastes your time
Agreeing team time management norms
Creating a support network
Moving from positive thinking to positive doing
Identifying the barriers to adopting new behaviour
Confronting Procrastination
The worst first method
Creating a new ritual