Time Management Essentials

Time Management Essentials

:About This Course

You gain the personal insight and practical skills to develop and implement a framework for successful time management. You also learn proven tools and techniques to make better day-to-day choices about investing your time and achieving your goals. 

:Program Objectives

1. Manage your time by implementing a framework to achieve goals
2. Make decisions about what you do and when
3. Apply a structured whole-brain process to shape your current and future commitments
4. Proactively schedule tasks, construct weekly plans and to-do lists
5. Adopt strategies and techniques to handle procrastination & interruptions

:Course Outline

Day: 1

Evaluating How You Manage Your Time

Essentials of time management:

• Contrasting time planning and time management

• Avoiding the psychological time trap

• Taking control of your life through the choices you make

Determining your time style:

• Evaluating your current strengths

• Characterizing your personal style of time management

• Recognizing opportunities for improvement

• Assessing the effect of your time style on others

Gaining control over your time:

• Identifying your unique pivotal time-related issues

• Appraising your situation with an Issues/Impact matrix

• Targeting factors that adversely impact your time

Day: 2

Structuring Your Responsibilities

Incorporating a time-planning process model:

• Harnessing the power of a structured approach

• Reusing the model throughout your life

• Customizing the model to fit your style and needs

Determining your primary purposes:

• Assessing clarity of purpose

• Mind-mapping your current situation

• Defining the purpose for each of your commitments

Assessing your realities:

• Weighing the value of current efforts

• Making choices in a planned way

• Deriving tasks — the raw material of time planning

Day: 3

Creating Your Powerful Future

Envisioning where you want to be:

• Leveraging the power of imagination

• Articulating your personal mission

• Choosing a future that works for you

Formulating challenging goals:

• Creating a sense of direction

• Generating personal momentum for action

• Setting WISE goals

Moving toward your goals:

• Initiating changes to your situation

• Selecting steps and actions

Day: 4

Prioritizing and Scheduling

Focusing your attention:

• Taking steps to boost your concentration

• Profiling your energy levels

• Aligning tasks with your high and low periods

Proactively identifying your priorities:

• Maximizing the Important/Urgent matrix

• Applying the Pareto Principle for the greatest results

• Developing the habit of immediate attention

Building your schedule:

• Assigning tasks into a weekly and daily schedule

• Scheduling to create greater work/life balance

• Creating a dynamic to-do list

• Reducing mental clutter

Day: 5

Techniques for Controlling Your Time

Overcoming procrastination:

• Identifying the root causes of inaction

• Beating the deadline-driven trap

• Approaching your tasks positively

Diffusing the impact of others:

• Asserting yourself politely and calmly

• Conquering over commitment

Dealing proactively with information overload:

• Customizing your work space

• Stepping off the "email-go-round"

• Evaluating your information flow and retrieval process

• Getting the Best Return on Your Time Investment

• Changing your time habits for the better

?WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Those who want to increase their productivity and those wishing to develop more balance and control over their time commitments.