Time Management

Training Description 

This course examines the importance of an effective performance management system in helping organizations define and achieve short and long term goals. Personal time management skills are essential for professional success in any workplace. Those able to successfully implement time management strategies are able to control their workload rather than spend each day in a frenzy of activity reacting to crisis after crisis – stress declines and personal productivity soars!

In addition, the course emphasizes the importance of measuring the effectiveness of human resource activities that are designed to enhance individual and organizational performance.

Training Objectives

Each attendee who will complete this training will gain the following outcomes:-

  • Discuss the guidelines of time management
  • Identify time waster’s factors and adopt strategies for eliminating them from the work pattern
  • Recognize the variety of causes of procrastination and apply relevant techniques to overcome these
  • Clarify and prioritize objectives and goals and use practical techniques for organizing work.
  • Improve productivity through working smarter
  • Identify different working styles
  • Use planning tools to optimize effectiveness

Who should attend?

This course is designed for anybody who feels there are not enough time in the day to complete their work, and for anyone who works at tight deadlines and want to get the most value from every hour.

Training Objectives

Each attendee who will complete this training will gain the following outcomes:-

  • Discuss the guidelines of time management
  • Identify time waster’s factors and adopt strategies for eliminating them from the work pattern
  • Recognize the variety of causes of procrastination and apply relevant techniques to overcome these
  • Clarify and prioritize objectives and goals and use practical techniques for organizing work.
  • Improve productivity through working smarter
  • Identify different working styles
  • Use planning tools to optimize effectiveness

Training Duration: 2  days / (6 hours/day)

Training Program

The following program is planned for this training. However, the instructor(s) may modify this program before or during the training for technical reasons with no prior notice to the delegates. Nevertheless, the training objectives will always be met:

DAY 1: 

08:30 – 09:00

Registration & Coffee

09:00 – 09:30

Welcome & Introduction

09:30 – 10:30

Overview: A Guideline to Time Management

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 11:45

Goals and Benchmarks – The Ladders of Success

  • The Three P’s
  • S.M.A.R.T. Goals
  • Prioritizing Your Goals

11:45 – 12:15

Prioritizing Your Time

  • The 80/20 Rule
  • The Urgent Versus Important Matrix
  • Assertiveness

12:15– 01:30

Video Presentation/Role Play

01:30 – 02:10

Lunch

02:10 – 02:45

Time Management Styles

02:45 – 03:15

Practical Exercises

03:15 – 03:30

Break

03:30 – 03:50

Planning Tools to Optimize Effectiveness

03:50 – 04:00

Training Wrap-Up

04:00

End of Day One

DAY 2: 

09:00 – 09:30

Training Recapitulation for Day One

09:30 – 10:30

Identify Time Stealers

  • Causes of Procrastination

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 11:45

Dealing with Interruptions
   11:45 – 12:45 Organizing Your Workspace

12:45 – 01:30

Delegating Made Easy

  • What is Delegation?
  • How to Delegate Effectively?

01:30 – 02:10

Lunch

02:10 – 02:35

  • Ways of Saying �?No’ Constructively
  • Meeting Management

02:35 – 02:50

Break

02:50 – 03:30

Video Presentation/Role Play

03:30 – 03:45

Training Summary

03:45 – 04:00

Giving of Training Certificate Completion

04:00

End of the Course

Spaces available on the following dates:

Material given during the training:  [DVD’s and Case Studies will be used during this course to illustrate examples of good and bad change implementation processes].

Before the course

Each delegate will be asked to complete a Pre-Course Assessment Form to determine their current level and objectives for attending the course. The content of such Form will be used by the trainer only to give tailored training that is focused on each group of delegates.

At the end of the course

Each delegate will be asked to complete an Individual Development Plan and Vocational Completion Certificate

 

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