Essential Time Management

Aim

This workshop is designed to help participants gain greater clarity around their priorities and habits, and make better use of their time for increased personal effectiveness.

Objectives

• Explore expert principles for successful time management
• Understand how your personality traits and habits are affecting your ability to make effective use of time
• Clarify your aims, goals and priorities in life and in work
• Highlight techniques for managing time and achieving your priorities
• Learn essential tools for negotiating timescales and deliverables
• Practice assertive communication skills for making clear requests and saying ‘No’
• Implement changes in habits and behaviours for increased success

Content

Why time management?
Understand what we mean by time management, what makes it challenging and how effective use of time can impact personal and business success

• Challenges and Issues
• Benefits of managing time effectively

Principles for Success
Consider how experts think about the concept of managing time and contrast with your own sub conscious thinking patterns

• Expert principles for effective use of time
• Explore personal attitudes and beliefs

Time of your Life
Overcome resistance and increase your success by aligning day-to-day activities with what matters most

• Identify personal priorities
• Creating a ‘balanced’ approach to life
• Setting Clear Outcomes
• Defining Short Term Goals

Planning and Organising
Tools and techniques for planning, prioritising and managing daily activity

• Setting work priorities
• Important versus Urgent
• Scheduling activities
• Time Management techniques

Personal Saboteurs
Recognise how your personal habits are affecting your ability to make best use of time and explore how to change unwanted habits

• Personal Boundaries
• Personality Traits and Preferences

Essential Negotiation
Effective time management often requires negotiation to agree realistic timescales and deliverables.

• Explore opportunities for negotiation
• Understand your negotiation style
• Tools and techniques for negotiating realistic outcomes

Assertiveness Techniques
Powerful techniques to communicate clear messages, respect others’ needs and assert your own.

• Making clear demands and requests
• Politely and confidently saying ‘No’

Personal Commitments
Identify and commit to specific actions and behaviours that will improve your use of time and personal effectiveness

Style

The workshop is highly participative and will incorporate different elements of learning to suit a variety of learning styles and to create an enjoyable and stimulating environment. Participants will benefit through practical experience, increased self-awareness, new skills and behaviours and leading edge thinking and techniques. There will be a mix of tutor input, individual and group activities, feedback and group discussion on practical applications.