Manage Your Time Effectively

Course Objectives:

• To appreciate the consequences of being a poor time manager
• To understand a structured approach towards planning their time
• To apply prioritisation criteria and consider the choices available when prioritising work
• To apply a structured process to deciding and prioritising key activities
• To use assertiveness to negotiate deadlines, quality and standards of work
• To discuss the 'time robbers' in their work
• To apply a range of tips and tactics to deal with the time robbers
• To develop an action plan to tackle own key time robbers
• To know what delegation is
• To understand the benefits, and the barriers, of effective delegation
• To apply a structured process in order to effectively delegate tasks to staff

What will the course cover:

• The 9 dot problem
• Defining time management
• Consequences of being a poor time manager
• The task instruction exercise
• Task management : A flowchart
• 2 criteria to apply when prioritising work
• 5 choices for task and priority management
• 3 steps to assertive behaviour
• Time robbers exercise
• 70 ways to better time manager
• Solutions to time robbers
• Delegation: what it is
• Benefits to effective delegation
• Tackling the fears to delegating
• 10 steps to delegation