Time Management Training Course - One Day

About this Time Management Training Course

Training to help learn new time management tools and techniques to become more productive. Eliminate time stealers; avoid procrastination. Plan ahead, prioritise and delegate.

The purpose of time management training course is to achieve a higher level of productivity. As you improve your time management skills, you will make more progress in less time.

Effective Time management suggests that you: operate according to your plan, not your mood.

Some people put-off tasks they don’t feel like doing:
That means they procrastinate. We must avoid procrastination. Procrastination is the way NOT to manage your time.

Good time management also means Prioritising.
Since you cannot do all tasks at the same time, you must prioritise your working day.

Many people do not prioritise their work well. So, they do ANY task at hand, in a random order.
That is poor time management. Personal Effectiveness means working NOT in a random order.

Time management courses always include tips on proper Planning because many people do not plan sufficiently ahead.

A lack of planning results in higher stress levels: a feeling that there are never enough hours in the day.

Poor time management skills lead to “firefighting”, which means dealing with problems as they arise rather than strategically planning to avoid them.

Some people have following bad time management habits:
Procrastination. Too easily distracted. They take on too much work, (They can’t say No). Poor memory. They are disorganised or Lazy.

Effective time management is about eliminating the above list of bad habits and replacing them with good time management techniques:

Prioritisation. Planning. Preparation, Prevention. Organisation. Delegation. Memory. Recuperation. Energy.

This time management skills training course will help you to get more from each day, by managing three aspects of your work environment: We call these elements, SOS Time stealers.

SOS Time stealers means:

• SELF - How you can improve yourself, and your own time management habits?
• OTHERS - How you can stop others from wasting your time?
• SYSTEMS- Which are your worst systems that waste your time?

You will love this Time management and personal effectiveness course which is designed to provide the time management tools, techniques, information, skills and knowledge you need to radically improve the quality of your working day.

Please read the full course description of the time management techniques, and then reserve your place on this informative time management skills course, today.

Time Management Training - One Day Course Overview

This effective time management course has been designed to provide the skills needed for you to make more progress in less time and how to use your time effectively.

You will learn how to handle people and situations that sometimes take you off-track and on occasion, waste your time.

Available Dates and Locations

Next Open Course Starts in 13 days, Manchester, places available Book Now >

Please note all our training courses include optional three months FREE telephone coaching to answer any on-going questions.

Course Timings: Start 09:00 - Finish 16:30. Lunch at 13:00, Tea Breaks at 11:00 and 15:00.
6 trainer-led hours, additional 2-3 via post-course portal independent learning

We currently offer training courses in: London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Maidstone, Kent, Glasgow, Scotland, Leeds, Gloucestershire

Time Management Training Course Content

Time Management Training - Day One - AM

Introductions

When at work, you would like to get the best performance from yourself and others - to manage your time effectively.

You need to make the most progress in the least time and effort.

How could you do that?

It is vital that you prioritise correctly.

This course will help you to prioritise properly; and take back control.

The first thing to understand that all tasks must be judged according to:

1. The value of the task
2. The deadline pressure of the task.

These two criteria help us to build the following time management grid.

Four types of activity

• High value, late work - Q1 Crisis
• High value, not yet late - Q2 Productive
• Occupied but not productive - Q3 Busy Zone
• Low value waste of time - Q4 Fruitless Zone

Many people spend their time working in Q1 crisis and Q3 busy-work, chasing tight deadlines - this is bad project management and poor time management.
They fail to do enough Q2 planning and problem prevention; thus, they sow the seeds for a fresh crop of Q1 crises.

We need to spend more time in the High value, not deadline driven Q2-Productive zone.
This is the P list. Profitable. Purposeful. Prioritisation. Planning. Preparation. Prevention of avoidable error.

The P LIST is your key to avoiding poor time management:

The enemy of the Q2 P-list is the Q3 busy work.
Q3 Busy work is “the stuff that gets in the way” of high value productive work.

Your mission is to do the high value Q2 work, in advance of need, by controlling the trivial many Q3 work.
We will help you to do that.

Identify people who waste your time (the time stealers); and what you can do about it.

We need to identify all the things that stop you from being on the P-List activities.

We call this: Time management SOS: Self, Others, Systems.

1. Self: Your own bad habits.
2. Other people
3. Systems: Inefficient work systems

We will help you to address your poor time management problems.

Time management skills questionnaire.

We have a great time management questionnaire for you which will help you to identify any bad habits that you, or your colleagues, may have.

We will help you to eliminate the time management problem by identifying the causes of poor time management and help you better manage your time.

Prioritise your work, so you always get the most important task done - good project management.

Prioritisation is the heart of good time management.

You must prioritise your tasks, because you cannot do everything simultaneously.

We will help you to prioritise your tasks into value order and logical order.

Prioritisation method

We will show you a time management tool which will enable you to properly prioritise your tasks.

• On paper
• On computer
• With a time-management APP on your mobile device

Avoid procrastination and concentrate on the most valuable tasks.

Get yourself back on track. You should always have “a mental track to run on”.

Use SMART Goals in your time management

One way to improve your time management skills is to be clear on your goals

One way to help other with their time management is to set them clear goals. (delegate!)

Delegate the right task, to the right person, for the right reasons

Delegate the right task, to the right person, for the right reasons

There are many good reasons to delegate:

• Delegation frees you up for other work
• Delegation is a form of training
• Get the best production from the whole team
• Delegation helps you to balance the load
• Delegation can reduce your stress levels if done correctly

Distractions, interruptions and the biggest time stealers

Resist being distracted off topic; how to keep your mind focused onto the task at hand.

Apply the 80–20 rule to your own time management

The 80 20 rule says that 80 percent of the value in contained in 20% of the content.

The 80 20 rule asks you to find the 20% of your activities that will account for 80% of your value to your organisation.

Learning and applying the 80-20 rule will help you get more hours in the day.

Solve problems more quickly and effectively

Problems solving is an important skill.

We will help you to solve problems and we will help you to encourage your colleagues to solve their own problems, so they don’t keep interrupting you to solve their problems for them.

Handle interruptions quickly, without causing any offence to the listener.

Interrupt the interrupter and gain the maximum value in the minimum time without causing offence.

Summary of morning session, action plans

Time Management Training - Day One - PM

Personal effectiveness training for time management skills

Personal effectiveness. Your effectiveness has an emotional component. We will look at the role that emotions have in a person’s productivity and effectiveness.

You are a union of mind and body.

You need a healthy mind and healthy body.

Let us take a look at the issue of healthy body.

We will quickly ask you to check your energy levels and health habits.

We will help you with your Nutrition, sleep and exercise.

Improve your productivity by managing your mood

We will examine how your productivity is affected by your emotions and how your emotions are affected by your mind set.

Maintain a positive mental attitude

Your mind set affects your willingness to act. And your mind set affects your relationships with other people, and therefore your productivity.

• We will examine the role of worry, stress levels, fear, anger, upset, and how it negatively affects output.
• We will examine how higher levels of confidence, optimism and happiness positively affects output.

Master the art of Conversation control

• Keep office conversations on productive, rather than non-productive topics
• In your place of work, how much time is wasted in negative, go-nowhere conversations? We will help you to refocus office conversations onto productive topics.

Use the continuous improvement cycle: Purpose, Plan, Action, Feedback, Change

All successful action can be seen as the application of a simple five-part cycle.

Purpose, plan, action, feedback change.

Learn the success formula

1. Purpose: Set the goal
2. Plan: Formulate your best plan in writing
3. Action. Take decisive action
4. Feedback: Gather and evaluate the feedback. Both positive and negative
5. Change: Make progress by continually adapting and evolving.

Recognise that the success formula is a continuous process.

How to use feedback to improve results

Feedback comes in two varieties: Positive and negative.
We will help you to make better use of feedback and decrease your stress levels.

How to make the future better than the past.

We will show you how to use all the above information to ensure your future is much better than your past.

Summary / action planning / close

The Course Training Method

The training method follows this general pattern - the training is very interactive and interesting:

1. The trainer gives a clear explanation of the point in question with specific examples.
2. Then, the delegates practice by doing an exercise with each other.
3. The delegates practice by doing an exercise with the trainer.
4. All points are supported with full written notes to take away.
5. Delegates are asked to write down an associated action, for each point made.
   (At the end of the day, we have about twenty such actions, from which the delegates choose six which are the most personally meaningful).

Note: we do not believe in placing people in any situation of embarrassment by demanding that they 'perform' in front of the whole group. So you can relax: come on this course and be at ease; ready to learn new skills!

CPD (Continuing Professional Development) Endorsed Course

This course, content and delivery has been checked and endorsed by the CPD certification service. They have checked our content training style and organisational methods and venues. CPD have accredited the high quality of our courses.

• Leadership and Management Training (2 days) - 12 trainer-led hours, additional 2-3 via post-course portal independent learning
• Time Management Training (1 day) - 6 trainer-led hours, additional 2-3 via post-course portal independent learning
• Conflict Management Training (1 day) - 6 trainer-led hours, additional 2-3 via post-course portal independent learning

More information about CPD and The Continuing Professional Development Certification Service can be found here.

Open Training Course Pricing and Availability

You are able to book this course online today.

Next Open Course Starts in 13 days, Manchester, places available Book Now >

The open training course costs only £450 +VAT per delegate. For this price we provide:

• A full day of quality training
• Tea, coffee and cakes
• Lunch
• Full colour course notes
• Written action plan
• Certificate
• Additional training material by means of monthly updates
• Access to the Post Course Portal

Plus, 3 months free telephone coaching

To answer any on-going questions, you will also receive email and telephone support from your trainer after you have attended the course. Whilst you are implementing what you have learned we will be there to help you if you need us for advice, guidance and coaching.

Course Timings

Start 09:00 - Finish 16:30.
Lunch at 13:00, Tea Breaks at 11:00 and 15:00.

6 trainer-led hours, additional 2-3 via post-course portal independent learning.

After the course, how can you keep the training-momentum going?

We understand that it is important to keep the momentum of the training going, in the weeks after the course. The ideas and methods that you learnt during the course need to be implemented, not just for the two weeks after the course, but for all time!

In order to make that happen, we will give you continued, on-going support after the training course has finished. The support comes in the form of the Post Course Portal.

The Post Course Portal is a web page that contains a review of all the course material, plus the following:

• Newsletters containing training blogs and articles, which will provide you with ongoing training and good ideas, whenever you need them.
• Fun questionnaires that are designed to tease out your strengths and weaknesses and then give you ideas as to how you might improve your performance.
• Decision matrices that will allow you to make decisions and prioritise tasks into the correct order.
• Summary diagrams and mind maps from the course.
• Conflict scripts that give you examples of how the conflict method can be used, in real life situations.
• Free eBook the effective leader manager.

All Open Course Dates and Locations

In-House Training Course Pricing and Proposal

This course is also available from just £1,950 +VAT per day as a bespoke in-house group training course in the UK and worldwide.

It has been designed to provide a similar experience to our open courses, however we can tailor the content to fit your specific needs. In-House Group training costs from just £1,950 +VAT per day for up to 20 delegates (international training price varies).

This price includes:

• Full days training
• Full course training manual
• Personal written action plans
• Access to the post course portal
• Three months free telephone coaching

Plus, hotel accommodation for trainer if necessary. (Premier Inn type: not the Hilton!)

In-House Proposal Document

Download the in-house training proposal document

Contact Us Today

Please call us on +44 020 3856 3008 to discuss your requirements for the in-house training course.

If you want to know more about any other Management Training Courses, or their suitability for you or a colleague, call us on +44 020 3856 3008.

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Time Management Training Course Quiz

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Take this course quiz to see where you have good time management techniques and where you are NOT so strong.

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