Managing your time effectively is critical to success, because time once lost can never be regained. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest- and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man. This course has been designed to enable you gain and apply your knowledge and understanding of personal and professional awareness, organization and commitment, and use the tools, methods and techniques that you will learned in goal setting, prioritization, scheduling, and delegation to overcome time management challenges and enhance productivity.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Plan effectively to achieve your personal and professional goals
• Recognize and overcome barriers to successful time management
• Identify specific time management tools and use them effectively
• Manage resources both effectively and efficiently
• Keep your sense of perspective to prevent and manage crises
• Delegate effectively
• Manage expectations and say “No” when appropriate

Course Contents:

DAY 1

• Identifying your greatest ‘time stealers’
  • Individual reflective exercise

• Guiding principles of time and self-management
  • Planning and controlling your workload
  • Keeping yourself motivated to achieve tasks
  • Reducing travel time and how to optimally use the time available to you
  • Managing communication
  • Small group exercise with presentation feedback and group discussion

• Identifying and managing peak physiological performance time
  • Peak physiological performance and time
  • Importance of breaks and the negative effects of stress
  • Presentation followed by individual exercise and group discussion

DAY 2

• Saying ‘no’ and negotiating solutions
  • Ways to say ‘no’ assertively
  • Identifying potential win-win solutions
  • Demonstration, group discussion, pairs practical exercise

• Prioritising workload and key tasks
  • Need for task prioritisation and ‘Eating your frogs’
  • Methods of task prioritisation
  • Presentation, group discussion and individual exercises

• Planning and prioritising your own workload
  • Templates for planning and prioritising projects, goals, tasks
  • Planning essentials and practical
  • Presentation, individual practical activity and facilitated group discussion

DAY 3

• Delegating tasks
  • Defining delegation and identifying why we tend not to delegate
  • Benefits and art of effective delegation
  • Presentation, demonstration, group exercise and facilitated group review

• Assigning tasks to be delegated
  • Team skills matrix
  • Identifying best person for the task
  • Presentation, individual exercise with feedback and review

• Solutions for managing time effectively
  • Finalising our time management strategies to resolve time stealers
  • Individual reflective and action planning exercise with colleague support