Course description
Time and Priority Management
We’re all faced with more competing demands on our time than ever before. But do we even know where our time goes?
Knowing how we spend it is the first step towards being able to control how we spend it. What non-essential activities can you drop? If there are things you can’t drop, how can you manage them better? How can you be more intentional about how you run your day?
This is an opportunity to explore different approaches to time and priority management. How can you manage interruptions better? How can you structure your day around your peak energy moments? How can you make your life easier by using the compass, not the clock?
Delivery: Available as a full-day, half-day, bite-sized programme or webinar. Virtual and in-house delivery options.
Upcoming start dates
Outcome / Qualification etc.
- Explain the essential principles of time management
- Explore how they can use their time so that it better aligns with their goals
- Identify ways of using different planning tools to stay on track
- Articulate the importance of being proactive and avoiding firefighting
- Understand how to apply different strategies in a series of typical workplace situations
Training Course Content
Time audit
- How do you actually spend your time?
- Important v ‘urgent’
- The problem with ‘busy’
- The ‘runaround’ dilemma
- Going beyond ‘busyness’
- Pareto’s law
2 Eliminating wasted time
- Identifying your ‘time-stealers’
- ‘To-do’ lists or ‘to don’t’ lists?
3 Managing yourself
- Self-management challenges
- Overcoming procrastination
- Impact of stress and pressure
4 Keeping on track
- How do you make sure you focus on your priorities – and don’t lose sight of them, especially when you’re busy?
- The First Things First Model (FTFM)
- Compass or clock?
- Challenge your plan – the ‘planning fallacy’
5 Getting things done
- The 4Ds
- Do it
- Dump it
- Participant it
- Defer it
- Making things happen
- ‘Overwhelm’ and multi-tasking
- Managing competing priorities
- Attention, focus and willpower – working with your circadian rhythm, not against it
6 Strategies
- Blocking time
- Managing emails
- Managing interruptions
- Managing meetings
7 Actions and next steps
- Review
- Personal action planning
- Next steps
Course delivery details
Available as a full-day, half-day, bite-sized programme or webinar. Virtual and in-house delivery options.
Reviews
Average rating 5
Great way to become more aware of concepts around time management and my own time wasters and when I'm at my most productive
Excellent – I was aware of most of the techniques mentioned but really needed a refresher course on them. The trainer was really upbeat and inspiring – I came away feeling uplif...
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