Working Smarter - Managing Priorities and Time Management

Time Management and Working Smarter 

One day training course

We may all have different jobs to do, but one thing we all have in common is the need to be productive, organised, and reliable.

This time management course is based on the best of proven principles and the latest research and ideas for hybrid, solo and remote working.

This highly practical and interactive training course brings time management to life. It does this through short and interactive presentations, practical exercises with lots of tips, tools, and techniques. 

·  Managing priorities and structuring your day, individual and as a team.

·  Better attention management: Dealing with distractions and staying focused.

·  Goal setting, work-life balance and overcoming procrastination.

Most people can benefit from implementing a few new ideas to improve their productivity and work-life balance. 

Objectives 

Key learning points include:

·  Key principles of managing priorities, meet deadlines and being more in control of your workflow.

·  Managing expectations, resisting manipulation, and staying in control.

·  Ways of structuring your working day and building productive habits.

·  Proven techniques for structuring your day, week and normal routine.

·  Attention management and how to gain an hour of productive time by reducing distractions.

·  A practical way for setting goals and objectives in your work and personal life.

·  Be able to spot and deal with procrastination – in yourself and others.

·  Working more productivity as team.

·  Using communication skills to get more done, in less time, and on time.

·  How to start you on time, finish on time, get a lunch-break…and still get everything done.

Outline

• Definition, key principles, and personal learning objectives.
• How do you really use your time now? How would you like to?
• Beliefs and feelings about time.

• How to prioritise your workload, tasks, and activities.
• Using the Pareto principle and Parkinson’s law together 
• Using the 18-minute rule to structure your day.

• Making meetings worthwhile – preparation and conduct.
• Ideas for improved productivity and for working smarter as a team.
• Learning to trust and reducing overcommunication and micro-management.
• Delegating and co-working effectively.

• Different ways set and use goals as way of managing time.
• Converting outcomes and objectives into realistic action plans.
• Setting personal and work goals that complement each other.
• Practical solutions for improving your work-life balance, and why it matters.

• Know your time ‘bandits’, and how to fix them!
• The power of habit – breaking and making them.
• Assertive communication skills – how to say “no” nicely.

• Procrastination - what it is and how to recognise it in yourself and others
• Understanding the psychology of procrastination; why we put things off
• Proven ways of avoiding, reducing, and dealing with procrastination