• Identified their biggest ‘time stealers’ which reduce their productivity and established solutions to reduce or remove their negative impact
• Acquired practical time management skills for scheduling, planning and prioritizing work
• Discussed and practiced a range of recognized time management techniques such as effective delegation, assertively saying ‘no’ and negotiating alternative solutions

Identifying your greatest ‘time stealers’

• Ice breaker exercise, small group and individual reflective exercise

Guiding principles of time and self-management

• Planning and controlling your workload
• Keeping yourself motivated to achieve tasks
• Reducing travel time and how to optimally use the time available to you
• Managing communication
• Small group exercise with presentation feedback and group discussion

Identifying and managing peak physiological performance time

• Peak physiological performance and time
• Importance of breaks and the negative effects of stress
• Presentation followed by individual exercise and group discussion

Saying ‘no’ and negotiating solutions

• Ways to say ‘no’ assertively
• Identifying potential win-win solutions
• The demonstration, group discussion, pairs practical exercise

Prioritizing workload and key tasks

• Need for task prioritization and ‘Eating your frogs’
• Methods of task prioritization
• Presentation, group discussion and individual exercises

Planning and prioritizing your own workload

• Templates for planning and prioritizing projects, goals, tasks
• Planning essentials and practical
• Presentation, individual practical activity and facilitated group discussion

Delegating tasks

• Defining delegation and identifying why we tend not to delegate
• Benefits and art of effective delegation
• Presentation, demonstration, group exercise and facilitated group review

Assigning tasks to be delegated

• Team skills matrix
• Identifying the best person for the task
• Presentation, individual exercise with feedback and review

Solutions for managing time effectively

• Finalizing our time management strategies to resolve time stealers
• Individual reflective and action planning exercise with colleagues support

Attendees will get a training certificate after the completion of the course.