Objectives

This 1 day highly practical and interactive course aims to equip participants with skills to organise themselves and others and plan and gain control of time and effectively prioritise and manage their workload. Planning, organising, implementing and monitoring are essential elements of this workshop.

The session will help delegates:

  • Understand time management and recognise their time management strengths and weaknesses
  • Organise and plan time, resource and themselves more pro-actively
  • Systematically review their use of time
  • Prioritise their workload and organise effectively
  • Make better use of time through effective delegation where this is appropriate – optional objective as appropriate to delegates
  • Use ways of handling disruptions
  • Produce an action plan to improve time management
The course can be tailored and adapted to focus on additional specific areas of change and improvement for time management, organisation and planning.

Content

  • Organisation and planning strategies and techniques
  • Time as a resource
  • Systematic and opportunistic approaches to improvement
  • Building an awareness of our use of time
  • Managing priorities
  • Creating an overview of what needs to be done - standing back and surveying the
  • whole picture
  • How and what to plan, schedule and organise. - Analysing workload, prioritisation and categorising
  • Fitting long term priorities into short term planning
  • Clarifying our role and the goals that we need to achieve
  • Managing paper, electronic communications and documents – paper documents and post, electronic messages, emails etc
  • Handling the unexpected – managing interruptions
  • Identifying your personal “time thieves”
  • Establishing a set of key result areas
  • Focusing on results
  • Time logs
Who should attend: Staff at all levels who need to gain control of their and use it
more effectively

How to book

Please contact your Learning & Development manager if you are interested in this course.