Duration

One day

Suitable for

Anyone who wants to exercise more control over their own time and tasks to achieve their goals at the end of each day. This will act as an introduction or a reminder of good practice in prioritising and time management to help you power through work with less stress.

Location

Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Effectively plan and prioritise your workload to ensure objectives are achieved
• Eliminate or reduce time wastage to enhance your own performance
• Deal effectively with paperwork, telephone and interruptions
• Remove unnecessary time-stealers
• Meet key deadlines which determine the success of you and your manager
• Identify the difference between proactive and reactive working

Programme

Introduction & Workshop Objectives

• What is our programme?
• What would I like to achieve today?

Time Management

• What is it?
• Different approaches to it
• Self analysis – how we spend time at work

Proactive v Reactive Working

• The difference between reactive and proactive working
• Why urgent tasks are not always important tasks
• Identifying when and why we are reactive
• How to be more proactive

Paperwork, Telephone, Interruptions and Email

• Time stealers and how to deal with them
• Tips and techniques to deal with these in a time-effective way – whilst maintaining and fostering effective working relationships

• Why we don’t
• Why we should
• How we should – tips to give us confidence and a method
• Conclusion and recap of key learning points

The Way Forward

• Taking ideas back to the workplace and putting them into action

Duration (in days)