Course overview
Good time management is a core skill, enabling productivity, efficiency and better decision-making. It's also crucial to creativity and wellbeing at work. However, most people struggle with the daily pressures of conflicting demands and deadlines, overloaded mailboxes, and/or unwelcome interruptions.
Our Effective Time Management training course, aimed at staff and managers alike, will explore common pitfalls with time management and personal effectiveness and provide tools and strategies to maximise this precious resource.
Who should attend
This course is suitable for all staff, irrespective of whether they have
management responsibilities.
Benefits of attending
By attending this course, delegates will:
- Reflect on the challenges they face when managing their workload and explore tools and techniques in making the best use of time
- Learn how to plan tasks and prioritise more effectively, balancing the needs of stakeholders’ with their own to aid their productivity and wellbeing
Course content
✓ Understanding personal time management challenges
✓ Common time management pitfalls and the impact on productivity
✓ Strategies for overcoming personal challenges
✓ Differentiating important versus urgent
✓ Prioritising tasks
✓ Identifying and managing distractions
✓ Strategies to minimise distractions and maintain focus
✓ Managing emails and instant messaging
✓ Handling interruptions and unexpected tasks
✓ Creating effective daily task lists
✓ Setting SMART goals
✓ The time-blocking technique
