A workshop designed to examine the core principles, tips and techniques for getting the most from that very critical and precious resource – TIME.
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” - John Lennon
Everyone has a whole heap of incoming things to deal with every day that could get in the way of doing the very activity or task that will bring about the successful achievement of their project, objective or Key Performance Indicator.
Implementing simple to use, practical techniques and tips for Time Management alleviates the feeling of being overwhelmed, instils confidence and capability and releases creative energy, enthusiasm and efficiency. It provides structure without constraint, managing the detail and the overview of our daily contributions with maximum flexibility.
Time management has proven to be an essential skill for success. It is therefore no wonder that our effective time management workshops are one of the most popular workshops attended by aspiring businesses and high achieving individuals.
Our Approach:
This workshop encourages individuals to develop and define a way of working that liberates the individual’s effectiveness by focussing on the fundamental principles of effective time management. Based on these core principles and with the very practical examples used, participants form their own approach to their Time Management. This approach will be based on their own life style and any technological system they happen to use as a tool to support it. In our experience, this has proven to be much more effective and even months after our workshops, participants say that they have become more productive as a result of this approach.
Purpose:
The purpose of this workshop is to enrich the quality of our lives at home as well as at work by getting the most from the time we have available.
Objectives:
This workshop is ideally suited for anyone, who by the end of the workshop will need to be able to:
- Challenge your thinking with an attitude to time that maximises your time efficiency.
- Plan your goals, targets and objectives so that you will achieve them successfully
- Organise your life effectively using the four core GTD (Get Things Done) principles
- Respond to an interruption confidently.
- Identify options for dealing with those things that consume time that you have planned to use for other things
- Say No and still have a positive relationship with those your say “No” to!
- Delegate tasks appropriately to maximise your efficiency
Typical content for a ONE DAY WORKSHOP on this topic includes:
- Our Attitude towards time
- How different people look at time and what the implications could be
- The techniques you can use to increase your productivity
- Our brain has a say in what we prefer to do and how we do it
- Tips you can use to avoid procrastination
- Taking advantage of dead or idle time
- Freeing up your mind from continuously thinking about critical tasks - Being Smart about Time
- Systematically setting goals and objectives to maximise your effectiveness and productivity
- Connect what you plan to do with when you plan to do it and be amazed at what you can do
- Prioritise what you do based on what you plan to do to protect that time from those who may have an eye on it! - Being organised
- How to organise your work-station – wherever that maybe
- Using the calendar that best suits you
- Using the GTD principles to organise what you do
- A C.R.A.S.H. course in paper and file management - Working with others
- Find some critical time to achieve your goals
- Reduce the number of e-mails in your “inbox”
- Saying “No” and sustain a positive working relationship
- Get more from your meetings
- How to use your voice-mail - Getting things done with and through others
- 7 steps for managing your project well
- How to delegate appropriately to increase your productivity
- 3 principles for delegating well
Pre-requisites for attending: None
However it will be useful for you to bring a list of those things that interrupt your planned time or that consume time unexpectedly.
Your learning workshop facilitators:
Your workshop leaders are well trained and experienced subject matter experts who use adult Learning methods to keep the workshop interactive, engaging and fun.
Appealing to all learning styles, there will be:
- Flipcharts created, memorable visual aids and coloured pens to use for our Visual learners
- Music and stories for our Auditory learners
- Table toys for learning for our Kinaesthetic learners
Our facilitators adapt and customise the workshop to suit the specific needs of participants by:
- asking quality questions
- prompting conversation and discussion
- referring to your organisation’s specific scenarios
- discovering insights beyond the obvious
- encouraging application and immediate implementation behaviour and action
Contact us by filling out the Quick Enquiry Box; or by using any of our other contact details shown at the very bottom of this page. Thank You. We look forward to hearing from you.
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