Time Management
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Time Management
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1 Day (9:00 am – 4:30 pm)Meals Provided
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Course Overview
Never have enough time in a day? Working to other people's priorities and not your own? Taking back control and managing your responsibilities requires goal setting, organisation and task prioritisation. This course will provide you with the tools to achieve peak performance through self management and the successful breakdown and prioritisation of tasks.
Expected Outcomes
- Understand the difference between time management and self management.
- Identify and learn how to control personal time wasters.
- Develop a process of setting objectives and priorities.
- Understand the role that delegation and controlling your work environment plays in managing time.
- Use assertive communication techniques to manage requests.
- Techniques to avoid procrastination through goal setting and positive self-talk.
Prerequisites
There are no suggested prerequisites for this course
Who Should Attend this Course
This course has been designed for anyone who wants to increase personal productivity and minimise stress caused through a reactive/responsive mode of working.
Core Learning and Development Competencies
This course has been designed to support the development of the following core competency areas identified to facilitate individual and organisational success:
- Action orientated
- Organising
- Planning
- Time management
Topics Covered [Click to Show All]
Time is uncontrollable, we can only manage ourselves and our use of time.
Balancing lifestyles
Use the Web of Life to track how you're balancing your lifestyle.
Theories on time management
Apply Pareto's 80-20 Principal to identify activities for focus.
Time stealers
Implement strategies to reduce or stop the impact of time stealers.
Understanding your purpose
SMART Goals ensure you're working on the right things and getting results.
Identifying and Setting Priorities
Use the time management matrix and ABC method.
Daily Action Plan
Develop and evaluate your daily action plan.
Respond to work environments that contribute to time wastage.
Assertive communication
It's more productive to express your feelings through assertive communication.
Delegation
Understand the positive reasons for delegation and the three ‘golden rules of effective delegation’.
Procrastination
Learn how to stop low priority tasks getting in the way of high priority ones.
Managing meetings
Understand the five main elements of effective meetings.
Stay alert for ‘monkeys’
Taking on others problems is allowing the ‘monkeys’ to leap from their back to yours.







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