Description:

This one-day time management course covers a primary business skill. Time has a direct impact on performance and success.

The ability to manage your own time is made more complex by the diversity of issues being managed concurrently. Also, the working environment is not always created for highly productive work. Very often events take over and determine for us what we have to do next and it is an easy step simply to react. Unfortunately this is not a good way to control our output or that of the team.

This time management course is about the detail of personal time management. It looks at habits, behaviour and the importance/urgent nature of work. It looks at SMART working and the process of planning our work and eliminating those items which are not productive. It looks at a healthy work/life balance and how it can improve effectiveness and performance. There are many productivity tools available to us which offer real benefits. The course will look at the management of the workplace generally and the organisation of our personal space in particular.

The course will consider the impact of the environment on the working ability of the team. The micro management of team time is clearly crucial to the performance of the business, but the lack of it can lead to unhappy teams bogged down in issues and without a clear way out. This leads to stress and can spread to other teams. The course will look at meetings and how this very important process can be used to manage and monitor team performance and help create the good habits which lead ultimately to culture change and the locking in of good performance.

The micro management of time is an important management technique in creating better working practices. Understanding why we work as we do is the first step to change. But once we know why we need to change we need to know how we must change and how we measure the benefit. The course provides the simple understanding of why we do what we do and how to alter our behaviour to provide a happier and more productive outcome. This course is a productivity course and will result in substantial benefits.

An Attendance Certificate will be provided at the end of this skill course.

Vital Benefits:

Good personal time management and the transfer of that best practice to the team can lead to substantial business benefits. This course provides the following vital benefits:

• A clear understanding of how time is utilized
• A set of valuable tools to manage time efficiently
• A concept of SMART working
• An understanding of behaviour and how it can be changed
• Understanding the productive environment
• Better micro management of teams by eliminating waste
• Increasing productive time and working more productively
• Understanding the benefits of bureaucracy whilst seeking out redundancy

Objectives

Managing personal time is a lot of little things which amount to huge productivity gains and possibly the difference between average and best. This is important because it can be managed by everyone. In this course, it is our objectives to:

• Increase your effectiveness by focusing on higher value work
• Provide an understanding of why we behave as we do
• Provide a set of tools to help you prioritise and manage your time
• Change your life by changing your habits
• Provide a clear understanding of self organisation at work
• Understand teams and how they work

Topics:

The course covers the following topics:

• SMART working, prioritization of tasks and managing meetings
• An understanding of habits
• Some psychological issues
• Identifying non-value added work and reducing it
• Organisation of work
• People issues affecting work and performance
• Delegation and allocation
• The nature of effectiveness
• Urgency / importance grid and changing quadrants
• Developing a strategy for step change

Who to Attend:

The information in this course could substantially change the bottom line of your business, by starting a culture of excellence. We would recommend it to the following project people:

• Business leaders
• Business executives
• Business managers
• Line managers
• Those who make important decisions for the business
• Those who face the clients or customers
• Those who want to develop their business skills