Up to 10 delegates

The focus is on managing time better to be effective in one’s role, and handling the practical issues of time management in a busy work environment.

The content is as follows:

  • Welcome/objective setting
  • Different perceptions of time – understanding your own and others timeline
  • Putting first things first – using Stephen Covey’s Time Management Matrix to look at how to use time to be effective in a role and minimise stress to self/others
  • Identifying time problems/issues
  • Understanding our ‘reactive’ and ‘rational’ brain behaviours – why we manage our time differently in different situations
  • Key principles in controlling workload and time usage
  • Review personal time usage – understanding and controlling ‘randomness’
  • Introducing the ‘closed list’ concept – ‘will do’ rather than ‘to do’
  • The ‘Manana’ principle for dealing with incoming work/information
  • Time Management Tips – effective use of diary, working effectively
  • Getting momentum into challenging or postponed tasks
  • Making a fresh start right away – taking the learning back to work straight away
  • Review/Action Plan/Goal Setting

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