Time Management Training

Course Duration:

• 2 days

Course Overview

Will help the individuals to manage their time, and to achieve their professional goals and professional goals.

Course Objective:

• Articulate your goals.
• Analyze how you are currently allocating your most precious resources: energy and time.
• Identify elements of your personal work style that contribute to your effective use of time.
• Assemble a collection of time-management tools and strategies that you can use to take control of your time.
• Create an action plan for your time-management process and identify ways to evaluate and improve your efforts.

Course Content

Module 1: Getting Started

• Icebreaker
• Housekeeping Items
• The Parking Lot
• Workshop Objectives
• The Three P’s
• The SMART Way
• Prioritizing Your Goals
• Visualization

Module 2: Setting SMART Goals

Module 3: Prioritizing Your Time

• The 80/20 Rule
• The Urgent/Important Matrix
• Being Assertive

Module 4: Planning Wisely

• Creating Your Productivity Journal
• Maximizing the Power of Your Productivity Journal
• The Glass Jar: Rocks, Pebbles, Sand, and Water
• Chunk, Block, and Tackle
• Ready, Fire, Aim!

Module 5: Tackling Procrastination

• Why We Procrastinate
• Nine Ways to Overcome Procrastination
• Eat That Frog!

Module 6: Crisis Management

• When the Storm Hits
• Creating a Plan
• Executing the Plan
• Lessons Learned

Module 7: Organizing Your Workspace

• De-Clutter
• Managing Workflow
• Dealing with E-mail
• Using Calendars
• When to Delegate
• To Whom Should You Delegate?
• How Should You Delegate?
• Keeping Control
• The Importance of Full Acceptance

Module 8: Delegating Made Easy

Module 9: Setting a Ritual

• What is a Ritual?
• Ritualizing Sleep, Meals, and Exercise
• Example Rituals
• Using Rituals to Maximize Time

Module 10: Meeting Management

• Deciding if a Meeting is Necessary
• Using the PAT Approach
• Building the Agenda
• Keeping Things on Track
• Making Sure the Meeting Was Worthwhile

Module 11: Alternatives to Meetings

• Instant Messaging and Chat Rooms
• Teleconferencing
• E-mail Lists and Online Groups
• Collaboration Applications

Module 12: Wrapping Up

• Words from the Wise
• Review of Parking Lot
• Lessons Learned
• Completion of Action Plans and Evaluations