career development skills
Improving Your Time Management
Old certainties are going. Employees increasingly need to adjust their attitudes in order to cope with change. Improving your personal effectiveness is a means towards becoming more productive in the workplace.
If you are facing an increasingly challenging and demanding workload and would like help on how to manage it, this short course aims to introduce participants to the concept of time management and then helps to explore ways in which you can add value to your job and support your organisation's corporate objectives.
This course is for anyone who understands that Tuesday fortnight always comes, wants to achieve more and get in control of their work and their life and who want to reduce personal and organisational stress.
Objectives
At the conclusion of the seminar, participants should be able to:
- Describe how to set clear goals
- Understand the concept of time management and why it is needed explain the importance of clarifying core values, competencies and behavioural strengths and how these affect your perceptions and use of time
- Explain how to identify and establish priorities identify areas for improved efficiency and effectiveness
- Describe time management processes including inputs, outputs, activities and tools
Outline of programme
Participants are introduced to dynamics of personal effectiveness and will consider the following:
- Improving your personal planning skills
- It's the quality of the hours you work that's important - not the quantity
- How productive are you? Are you an initiator or reactor?
- How to get - and stay - more organised
- Setting SMART Goals, Priority setting: Importance or Urgency. Key Objective four: Taking Action. Getting and keeping organised - office or workstation management | effective filing systems | efficient hard drives | email and snail mail | conquering the paper tiger
- Stress free decision making
- How to control interruptions
- Interruptions, delegating responsibilities, avoiding telephone tag
- Taking Control. Define what is to be done. Sequence, estimate and develop schedules. Time Logs, Daily Planners. The best little to do list ever
- How to create and interpret a GANTT Chart.
- "Don't sweat the small stuff": keeping things in perspective
- The hitchhikers guide to effective delegation
