Time Management

Outline

Poor time management can lead to missed deadlines, strained working relationships, and increased levels of frustration. The tools you gain in this session will help you utilise your time in the best way, for the benefit of yourself and your organisation.

Objectives

By the end of this course you will:

• Understand your own behavioural preferences in relation to time management and how to work better with people who operate differently to you
• Know how to establish and manage priorities, both professional and personal
• Be able to respond in a timely manner to shifting work requirements 
• Know how to plan your time more effectively and set achievable goals

The trainer created a good environment where everyone was able to contribute and learn. I think anyone that regularly finds themselves under pressure with priority tasks or tight deadlines could benefit from this course.

Course Content

Challenges to Effective Time Management

Although time management is definitely helped by having the right tools and processes, it is also important to understand how our personal attitude to time impacts this, as well as the attitudes of people around us. This section of the programme looks at identifying your own likes and dislikes in order to understand time management challenges. Topics include:

• Understanding personal and professional challenges
• What makes time management hard?
• My attitude - am I working in the way that works best for me?

Planning Time

Here we will look at some fundamental techniques that can help you to work flexibly and manage your workload in a world of shifting priorities. Topics include:

• Planning your time more effectively and efficiently
• Prioritising tasks
• Maintaining a work life balance
• When and how to delegate

Working More Efficiently

We are all aware of the old cliché, ‘don’t work harder, work smarter’. However annoying that sentence may be, it becomes ever more relevant as the range of electronic distractions, emails, smart phones, and social media platforms increase. By stopping us being fully in the moment, these things can make even simple tasks take far longer than they should. Here we will look at ways to remain focused on what needs to be done. Topics include:   

• Setting achievable goals
• Managing interruptions and distractions, being ‘more present’
• Beating procrastination

I found this course very refreshing. When I set out to pursue this, I was expecting some diary management processes and tools which I thought would be good for the test team. In fact what we got was way better. The training course revolves around understanding behaviours. This includes your own behaviour and interaction with other people’s behaviours that can cause time management to be impacted by various types of distraction. There was also a good section on understanding what the difference is between important and urgent and how to manage it.

Open Course Information 

In-House Course Information

This course is available for in-house delivery at a cost of £1,455+VAT for members, reflecting their learning discount. Please contact us for more information about non-member pricing.

The only additional cost is facilitator expenses, such as travel, where applicable. The course can be delivered in person or virtually for up to 12 delegates.

To learn more or discuss your specific requirements, please get in touch with us.

The Trainer

This course is facilitated by Mike Williams. Mike has spent many years in management and leadership development, delivering executive leadership courses for global organisations, including Ford Motor Finance, and working internationally in strategy, leadership, and business sales development. Most recently, he completed a four-year assignment in manufacturing and engineering, driving strategic priorities in complex environments. As a business development director, he contributed to significant revenue growth, international expansion, and defence-related sales. Passionate about staying current, Mike blends recent industry experience with proven management theories.