Efficiently managing time is a crucial skill sought after by employers across various industries. Staff members who can make optimal use of their time on the job are highly valued, as time saved directly translates to cost savings and increased revenue for organizations. Effective time management involves analyzing workloads, setting priorities, and maintaining focus on productive tasks.

To gain control over personal and professional matters, consider attending this engaging course.

The Time Management and Personal Effectiveness training course is designed to help participants regain focus, develop a balanced perspective on events, and adopt a more productive approach to work and personal life. By reducing stress levels and utilizing creative thinking tools provided in the program, attendees will generate new and valuable ideas for their business while significantly enhancing personal effectiveness.

The course will identify essential skills for personal effectiveness in today's fast-paced environment and concentrate on applying these skills using the preferred method of participants, whether it be paper-based, e-tools, or a combination of both.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the Time Management and Personal Effectiveness training course, participants will be able to:

Develop effective techniques for planning and achieving short and long term goals
Prioritize your daily activities/tasks to accomplish your most important work
Plan and schedule the necessary time for highly important projects
Make effective decisions and handle information flow efficiently
Delegate with confidence and track delegations with greater ease and success
Gain control through personal organization and desk management
Use creativity and mind-mapping techniques to effectively design and manage projects
Plan and execute productive meetings
Achieve balance in the key areas of your life

Who Should Attend?

Time Management and Personal Effectiveness training course, is ideal for:

All practitioners who juggle different responsibilities, deal with time pressures and those who struggle with multi-tasking and procrastination.
Those who would like to better understand why they get stuck in work backlog and negative time patterns and want to learn about strategies that help them overcome these.

Course Outlines:

Dimensions of Time Management & Personal Effectiveness

Programme introduction and objectives
Action planning and enhancing personal and team effectiveness
Making the most of office technology
Chronistic intelligence
Time-stealers and costs of poor time management
Priority setting – rational and emotional approaches
Ten principles of effective time management
Handling and making requests
Behavioral analysis and time management

Personal Planning Systems/ Interruptions/Project Planning/Stress

Getting the best from diaries and to-do lists
Proactive planning to meet key responsibilities
Developing time-based planning – daily, weekly, monthly plans etc
Handling interruptions – developing a time sensitive culture
Planning project-type work
Principles of Critical Path Analysis and implications for priority setting
Understanding stress
Managing stress in self and others
Dealing with change – taking and getting a positive response

Getting the Best from Other People/Communication /Meeting Skills

Delegation – giving and receiving
Team-working and team building
Improving communication and working relationships
Assertiveness
Effective and efficient meetings – ‘everybody’s a chairbody’

Office Ergonomics/ Managing Information/ Efficient Reading & Writing

Optimizing the office environment
Handling the paper-load and developing paperless systems
Managing e-mails
Improving the efficiency of management reporting
Using and developing relational databases
Business writing and the principles of ‘rapid composition’
Rapid and efficient reading – digesting and retaining information
Mind-mapping

Developing Creativity/Continuous Improvement/ Self-Development

Developing creativity in self and others
How the brain works and creative thinking techniques
Developing a culture of continuous improvement
Implementing change initiatives
Influencing skills – making a case and managing the ‘politics’
Continuing professional development – a proactive approach
Programme review and action plans

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