It's a fact of life - if you can't manage time effectively, you'll have difficulty meeting deadlines and handling your most pressing priorities. The Manage Time training course from Focus4 Training Ltd helps you maintain your schedules, priorities, and commitments without running behind. Learn to effectively plan and prioritise each day, week, and month. Manage Time will show you how to make space for all the important things in your life.
Course Aims:
In this course, you gain the practical skills to develop and implement a framework for successful time management. You adopt proven tools and techniques to make day-to-day choices about managing your time and achieving your goals.
You will Learn:
· To integrate proven time management techniques into your daily processes
· Make informed decisions about what you do and when
· Proactively schedule tasks, construct weekly plans and daily to-do lists
· Adopt strategies and techniques to handle procrastination and interruptions
Course Outline
• Introductions and Personal Objectives
• Where Are We Now
• The Need for Change and Self-discipline
• Communicating Effectively with Your Manager
• Working on the Right Things
• Setting SMART ER Action Goals
• Removing Obstacles in the Workplace
• Dealing with Interruptions
• Dealing with the Telephone
• Taking Responsibility to Make Sure Plans Get Implemented
• Organising Your Work Area and Your Paperwork
• Handling and Reading Mail
• Managing Projects
• What is a “project”?
• Setting project goals
• Determining “Milestones”
• Developing “Project Action Plans”
• Effective Use of Meeting Time
• How to Impact Meetings
• Alternatives to Meetings and How to Use Them
• Measuring Progress
• Review and Personal Action Plans