Time Management Training

Delegates are provided with the knowledge and skills required to maintain proper boundaries, become more organised, and focus on priorities.

Course Outcomes:

• Assess and analyse their present time management skills, having completed a “Personal Self- Assessment”
• Identify the roadblocks to effective time management
• List the behaviours associated with type A and type B personality types
• Assess their own behaviour and identify their personality type
• Identify and implement the three steps associated with effective time management techniques
• Complete a time management worksheet using the techniques of Prioritising, Scheduling, Boxing and Time Mapping
• Discriminate between activities that are ‘urgent’ and those that are ‘important’
• Assess personal time wasters and develop contingencies to overcome them
• Identify the principles associated with effective delegation and assess their own delegation skills
• Implement the ten organisational skill practices designed to effectively manage time
• Apply effective assertiveness techniques in managing time
• Understand and implement the concept of the “Balance Effectiveness Wheel”
• Develop a personal action plan based on all the knowledge and skills required, in their quest to manage their time effectively

Course Outline:

Module 1: Roadblocks to Time Management

• Self – Assessment
• Time management myths
• Attitudes to time
• Identifying Time wasters
• Definition of time management
• The stress response

Module 2: Personality Types and Behaviours

• Type A personality
• Behaviours associated with Type A
• Type B personality
• Behaviour associated with Type B
• Self- Assessment: personality type

Module 3: Time Management Techniques

• Prioritisation
• Application exercise
• The ABC rank – order method
• Application exercise
• The Pareto principle
• Application exercise
• Important-versus-urgent method
• Application exercise
• Scheduling
• Application exercise
• Execution – goal setting

Module 4: Organisational Skills

• Diary planning
• Managing deadlines
• Correspondence
• Phone calls
• E-mails
• Cell phones
• The Internet
• Assertive communication

Module 5: Time Management and Balance

• The “balance effectiveness wheel’
• Application exercise
• From time management to personal leadership

Module 6: Creating Personal Action

• A time management personal action plan

Course Duration:

2 days

*Number of days can be customised and adjusted for in-house programmes.*

• The course is offered in-house and can be custom made to include specific examples and exercises based on the organisation’s activities.
• The course is wholly interactive combining theory with role play, team exercises and group interaction.
• Evaluation happens through participation and group discussion