Time Management

DURATION: 1 DAY

Lack of time is a common complaint. The clock is always ticking, and in today’s fast-moving world, it seems we have to make every minute count. No matter how you look at it, time waits for no one.

Most of us feel under pressure to accomplish all sorts of things at work and in our personal lives. In a typical day, for example, you may be under the pump to meet project or task deadlines, perhaps you’re supervising a busy team of people in a service role, and it doesn’t stop there; when you leave work for home, you may well be facing hectic household demands, and even attending to children’s important school and sporting events.

And all the while, you’re trying to keep up-to-date and in control of the expectations of your work role and various roles in your personal life (as a partner, parent, sister, brother, grand-parent, grand-child, and the list goes on). How can you possibly achieve everything in one day?

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

self-audit their own use of time, and identify challenges and opportunities for better time management;
define time management, dispel common myths of time management and identify the habits of effective time managers;
identify and create strategies for handling ‘time stealers’;
identify opportunities to delegate and manage requests from others more effectively;
complete their own SWOT analysis identifying their own strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to developing new time management skills and habits.
demonstrate skills for protecting priorities by saying ‘no’ to requests from others’, when appropriate ;
practice managing typical daily interruptions.

YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT …

How to manage yourself, instead of trying to manage the clock.
The myths and realities of time management.
The four (4) ways we use time based on importance and priorities.
Recognising the Urgency Addiction and what to do about it.
The activities that use up your time and do not add value, and how to manage them.
Helpful tools and templates of effective time management.
Assertive communication to support effective time management.
Managing interruptions.
Overcoming procrastination.
Learning to say, ‘no’ to protect your priorities.

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who sHOULD participate?

Anyone who gets to the end of busy day and feels like they’ve achieved very little.
Individuals who are suffering because they do everything for everyone else, saying, ‘yes’ to requests and later regretting it.
Those who believe there are just not enough hours in the day to get everything done!
Individuals experiencing low motivation and putting off those things that really do matter in their life.
Supervisors and managers who find they’re spending most of their day doing low-value, ‘busy’ work, at the expense of their more value-adding, strategic work.

WHY THIS WORKSHOP?

To recognise and change your ineffective time management habits.
To develop more proactive approaches to reducing or eliminating time wasters.
To recognise the causes of procrastination and develop strategies to overcome them.
To learn how to say, ‘no’ to interruptions and less value-adding activities.