Time and Personal Management Training Course

Managing Myself Training Course

Duration: 2 Days

Introduction

This 2-day workshop is aimed at staff, supervision and management at all levels to help them to organise themselves, their priorities and their time more effectively.

Time management has become of ever-greater importance in recent years. As change becomes more rapid, missed deadlines can prove expensive or disastrous. As pressures on cost increase, individual managers, supervisors and employees are expected to be more and more productive Companies are increasingly judged on the global standards of world-class organisations, the expectations of shareholders and customers are of very high organisational efficiency. Time management can have a major impact on all of these factors.

From individuals’ point of view, effective time management skills can make a significant difference both to their personal performance and to their quality of life, employees with superior time management skills are not only more organised and productive in their work, and they are also less stressed and have more time for family, social or self-improvement activities.

Course Aim(s)

To enable learners to identify and adopt skills and habits that will allow them to make the best use of time – planning, prioritising, having clear objectives and dealing with time thieves. Leading to a more productive, less stressed professional who recognises how to make the most of the time available, to be not only efficient, but also effective.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course participants will be able to: -

Have a clear understanding of the key results areas for their own job.
Identify their own time thieves
Recognise where their own time goes
Develop strategies for dealing with time thieves
Deal assertively with interruptions
Understand how to plan and prioritise
Recognise the need to establish and achieve objectives
Developed techniques for assessing the importance and urgency of different tasks.
Identified balance in their ability to manage time in a way which does not conflict with important cultural traditions.

Method and Approach

A practical and active programme utilising group and individual activity to enable discussion and personal reflection.

Course content

Day 1

Getting organised according to the company’s priorities
The cost of poor time management on you, on others, on the company
How to recognise “Time stealers” in your daily work
How to deal with “Time stealers”
Cultural issues - the relative importance of family and work, the tradition of courtesy towards even unannounced visitors & the different value placed upon time, timeliness and punctuality
Recognising the different values of culture and adopting time management skills and techniques in a way which balances the commercial requirements of the company with cultural norms of behaviour Understanding your own habits which result in lost time
Ways of breaking your bad time management habits
The real meaning of the word “Priority”
How to differentiate between “Important” and “Urgent”
How to prioritise your work according to the Company’s key performance indicators.
Set your objective activity
Prioritising between company time, personal time and family time
How to create and monitor an effective “Time Budget”

Day 2

Creating systems and defending your time
Creating your own time management strategy
Effective use of lists and reminders
Setting up and using effective personal organisation systems
Dealing with conflicting priorities
The principles of cooperative time management
Negotiating with colleagues and with seniors over priorities and time allocation
Planning to eliminate recurring time burdens
Saving future time by using preventive and contingent planning