Duration: 2 Days
How can I attend my course?
COURSE OBJECTIVES
• Manage your time by implementing a framework to achieve goals
• Make decisions about what you do and when
• Apply a structured whole-brain process to shape your current and future commitments
• Proactively schedule tasks and construct weekly plans and to-do lists
• Adopt strategies and techniques to handle procrastination & interruptions
Course Content
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
– Characterising your personal style of time management
– Recognising 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
Structuring Your Responsibilities
• Incorporating a time-planning process model:
– Harnessing the power of a structured approach
– Reusing the model throughout your life
– Customising 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
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
Prioritising 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:
– Maximising 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
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:
– Customising your workspace
– Stepping off the “e-mail-go-round”
– Evaluating your information flow and retrieval process
Getting the Best Return on Your Time Investment
• Analysing your progress:
– Conducting regular reviews
– Comparing planned vs. actual usage with a time log
• Changing your time habits for the better:
– Calculating potential time savings
– Exercising the freedom to do it your way
Workshop Activities Include:
• Identifying your personal time style
• Constructing and applying an Issues/Impact matrix
• Mapping and analysing commitments and future situations
• Formulating WISE goals
• Modelling techniques to handle interruptions
• Developing a time management toolkit