You
can’t manage time because it works independently of you. However,
what you can do is manage how you use available time more effectively.
This course will help you improve your planning and time management
skills. As a result, you will be able to:
• Identify your self-management and time challenges
• Set SMART goals and prioritise in line with changing business needs
• Locate your activities on a Four Quadrant Time Management model
• Use a Six-Step Process for managing your time
• Reduce the effect of time wasters in your daily activities
• Develop Action Items for improved self management and use of time
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This workshop will benefit anyone who needs to improve their use of time.
About 30% of the workshop time is devoted to
instruction and examples. 70% of the time is spent on
group activities, exercises, case studies and
simulations. These activities are designed to give you
practice and build your confidence in managing
yourself and your time.
Managing Yourself and Your Time
• Managing Yourself: A Key Skill for Modern Professionals
• Managing Your Time: Value of Time as a Resource
• Results of Failing to Plan and Organise the Use of Time
• Questionnaire:Your Time Usage - Self- Assessment
Setting Goals and Priorities
• Reactive and Proactive Professionals
• Setting SMART Goals
• Exercise: SMART Goals
• Action Planning and Scheduling
• Developing a Successful To-Do List
• Knowing What to Do by Prioritising
• Simulation: Handling Your In-Tray
Four Quadrants of Time Management
• Urgency and Importance in Time Management
• Managing activities in Quadrant 1: Necessity
• Managing activities in Quadrant 2: Readiness
• Reducing activities in Quadrant 3: Deception
• Eliminating activities in Quadrant 4:Waste
• Exercise: What have you done this week?
• Stress and Time Management
• A Six Step Process for Managing Your Time
• Exercise: Implementing the Six Step Process
Eliminating Time Wasters
• Exercise: Identifying Your Personal Time Wasters
• Handling Interruptions
• Handling the Telephone
• Handling Paperwork
• Organising Your Desk
• Case Studies: Time Wasters
• Avoiding Procrastination and being decisive
• Exercise: Planning to Eliminate Your Time Wasters
Time
Management: Lessons Learned
Action Planning for Improved Time Management
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