Time Management Training Course
- One Day
- Learn cutting-edge time management techniques to make more progress, in less time
- Eliminate "Busy-days but non-productive days"
- Use 8 PART SMART to achieve more in less time
- Prioritise tasks into their most logical order; maximise your efficiency
- Discover the most common time management mistakes and how to fix them
- How to delegate the right task, to the right person, at the right time
- How to beat procrastination and get the best from yourself and others
- Learn proven techniques from expert trainers
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The course content was spot on! Concise, informative and enjoyable. Learned a lot. Will be used back at the office. The trainer's presentation was excellent, knows his stuff!
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Time Management Training
Do you have days when you're busy but not productive? Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work? If so, then our training course in time management will give you practical techniques and tools. Learn to plan, prepare and delegate, avoid procrastination and time stealers. Become more productive and less stressed by learning effective time management.
Time Management Training - 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.
For a more in-depth course outline click:
Morning - Planning, Preparation and Prioritisation
- How can I manage my time better?
- Prioritise. Do things in the right order
- Manage the Three Time Wasters: S.O.S.
- Self: Others: Systems
- Identify time management mistakes
- Avoid procrastination – Develop a “Do it now” attitude
- Stop people wasting my time
- Inefficient systems that waste time
- How to set specific goals
- Delegate the right task, to the right person
- Handle interruptions. Manage distractions
- Personal time management tips. Manage my time better
- What is the Pareto Principle; 80–20 rule?
- Email management using the 80/20 principle
- How can I make the right decision?
- Time management action plan
Afternoon - Personal Productivity and Continuous Improvement
- Personal effectiveness training
- Attitudes affect results
- Create and sustain a positive mental attitude
- Improve productivity by managing moods
- Avoid the “afternoon slump”
- Generate more energy
- Conversation control. Keep conversations on-topic
- Improve other people’s time management
- Base team action on the five-part success formula
- Purpose, Plan, Action, Feedback, Change
- How to bounce back stronger after a setback
- Develop confidence, optimism and wellbeing
- Design a better future
- Write my Personal effectiveness action plan
A selection of food which is available on our open courses - varies per venue
Book Now - Open Training Course Pricing and Availability
The Time Management open training course costs only £450 +VAT per delegate.
For this price we provide:
- A full day of quality training
- 6 trainer-led hours, additional 2-3 via post-course portal independent learning
- Tea, coffee and cakes
- Lunch
- Full colour course handbook
- Written action plan
- Certificate
- Training articles and newsletters
- Access to additional free training material after the course
Plus, optional 3 months free telephone coaching
To answer any on-going questions, you will can 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.
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The course was well structured and it opened my eyes to the potential causes of failure, within both the company projects and my personal projects. It also taught me things that I will definitely apply to make myself and my team way more productive! The Trainer was very personable, and did well keeping the group engaged and the content interesting.
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 (international training price varies). Plus, hotel accommodation for trainer if necessary. (Premier Inn type: not the Hilton!)
This price includes:
- Quality training delivered by an experienced trainer
- Full days training
- Full colour course handbook
- Preparation work
- Travel costs and time
- Written action plan to take away
- Access to our post course portal
- Access to our on-line leadership and management decision matrix templates and tools
- Plus three months FREE telephone coaching to answer any on-going questions
In-House Proposal Document
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Contact Us Today
Please call us on +44 (0)20 3856 3037 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 (0)20 3856 3037.
The course content was spot on! Concise, informative and enjoyable. Learned a lot. Will be used back at the office. The trainer's presentation was excellent, knows his stuff!
Time Management Training - Morning
Definition: What is time management training?
Time management training explains how to achieve maximum productivity, in a limited amount of time. It includes instruction on goal-setting, prioritisation, delegation and prevention of avoidable errors. Effective time management improves your organisation’s efficiency.
Time Management Prioritisation Grid
All tasks should be judged according to two criteria:
- The value of the task
- The deadline pressure of the task
These two criteria help us to build the time management grid.
The Time Management Grid Generates 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 time management. They fail to do enough Q2 planning and thus, they sow the seeds for a fresh crop of Q1 crises.
They should be spending more time in the high-value, not deadline driven, Q2-Productive zone.
The Productivity P-List
Progressive. Profitable. Purposeful. Prioritisation. Planning. Preparation. Prevention of avoidable errors.
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.
What can I do about people wasting my time?
Counter-measures you can use to stop people wasting your time.
What are my bad time management habits?
How to identify the distractions that take you from the P-List activities.
We call this the time management SOS: Self, Others, Systems.
- Self: Your own bad habits
- Other people
- Systems: Inefficient work systems
Eliminate poor time management habits and replace them with good time management skills.
Time Management Skills Questionnaire
A time management questionnaire to identify bad habits that you or your colleagues, may have.
Prioritisation
Prioritisation is the key skill of good time management.
Because you cannot do everything simultaneously, you must prioritise your tasks.
Prioritisation Method
A time management prioritisation tool, which will enable you to properly prioritise your tasks:
- On paper
- On computer and
- Via an app on your mobile
Decision Making
Your effectiveness ultimately depends on your ability to make the right decision and solve your problems. There are five types of decisions you must master:
- Prioritisation by value
- Prioritisation by logical sequence
- Yes or no decisions
- Which one, What kind decisions
- Problem – Cause – Solution analysis
Delegation
Definition: The act of entrusting a task to another
Delegate the right task, to the right person, for the right reasons
Reasons to delegate:
- Delegation frees you up for other work
- Delegation as a form of training
- Delegation ensures maximum productivity from the team
- Delegation helps you to balance the load
- Delegation can reduce your stress levels, if done correctly
How to delegate:
Use 8-Part SMART.
Eight questions that need to be answered in order to properly delegate a task.
Why some people are afraid to delegate
A discussion on the excuses people use to avoid delegating.
SMART Targets as a Goal-Setting Tool
Time Management depends on being goal-focussed.
Handling Distractions and Interruptions
Distractions and interruptions are one of life’s biggest time stealers.
Find out how to interrupt the interrupter, to gain the maximum value in the minimum time.
Apply the 80–20 rule to your own time management
The 80 20 rule says that 80 percent of the value is contained in 20% of the content. Apply the 80-20 rule and maximise your efficiency.
How to manage emails more effectively
Emails can both help and hinder your progress - we will look at how you can manage your messages
A selection of food which is available on our open courses - varies per venue
Time Management Training Programme - Afternoon
Personal Effectiveness Training
Definition: Personal effectiveness is a measure of your ability to achieve the maximum progress in the minimum time, money and effort. It is the result of a productive state of mind, combined with an effective set of actions.
Productive State of Mind
Your effectiveness has an emotional component.
We will examine how your productivity is affected by your emotions and how your emotions are affected by your mind set.
How your physical health affects personal effectiveness
"A healthy mind in a healthy body" (“Mens sana in corpore sano”).
Keeping your body healthy with exercise, is essential to keeping your mind in a positive state.
How to improve your energy levels and health habits.
How to maintain a positive mental attitude
We will examine the role of worry, stress, fear, anger, upset, and how it negatively affects productivity.
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.
The Continuous Improvement Cycle
All successful action is the application of a simple five-part cycle:
Purpose, plan, action, feedback, change.
The Success Formula
- Purpose: Set the goal
- Plan: Formulate your best plan in writing
- Action. Take decisive action
- Feedback: Gather and evaluate the feedback, both positive and negative
- Change: Make progress by continually adapting and evolving. Recognise that the success formula is a continuous process
Putting the success formula into practice
The success formula as a series of eight questions which you ask and answer every day.
Feedback vs Failure
Feedback comes in two varieties: Positive and negative.
We will help you to make better use of both types of feedback.
How to make the future better than the past.
We will show you how to use the information on this course, to ensure your future is much better than the past.
A selection of food which is available on our open courses - varies per venue
The course content was very good, I really enjoyed it. A lot of skills that can easily be applied (as well as some more difficult ones) to work and life. Excellent manual and got through a lot of content in detail. The trainer's was very good, knowledgeable, friendly, approachable - clear and concise.