Time Management & Personal Effectiveness for Healthcare Professionals

Creating high achievers with more energy and better work-life balance

You're probably successful already but I bet it could feel easier! You might feel like you're struggling to stand still. Is achievement at work at the expense of your personal life? Do you find yourself leaving major projects left to the last minute (and telling yourself you thrive on the pressure)? Feel like you could do more with the right strategies? There are many compelling reasons to access strategies & support and very few are about being poor at time management. Medicology is infamous for running probably the most powerful time management & personal effectiveness courses there are for health service staff. Your environment is unique and so is this course. Packed full of practical strategies to plan & prioritise effectively, manage the never ending influx of work and regain effective work-life balance you will find that we also have a good old plug at what goes on in your head. It's suitable for all manner of staff; senior managers & directors, consultants, juniors, nursing staff and many, many others. Achieve more this year. You deserve it for all your hard work.

Content

TIME MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS

• Philosophy of time management - the concepts & impact on self
• Long term effects of a frenetic lifestyle
• Defining and understanding work-life balance
• Achieving work-life balance by 'taking charge' before a major life event
• What's the time management goal?
• Achieving more through effective goals & objectives
• Effective planning & prioritisation
• Utilising a priority grid to balance importance & urgency
• Successfully managing the unexpected
• Increasing personal productivity
• Tips & techniques from the rich, famous and busy
• Saying 'No' and delegating effectively
• Strategies for effecting personal change

PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS COMPONENTS

• Understanding the key determinants of personal effectiveness
• Learning to avoid the performance pitfalls
• Interpersonal performance & interdependency - everyone’s agenda
• Developing the qualities of consistently high performers
• Mental processing of consistently high performers
• Understanding people, their beliefs and how this affects you
• Developing behavioural flexibility to influence others with more ease
• The power of personal vision and a goal-focus
• Deciding what you want, clinically & professionally, and achieving it
• Powerful planning & prioritisation, even when others influence your time
• Doing the most important things, consistently
• Physiological strategies for high performance
• Continual evolution - improving your performance incrementally
• Act, evaluate & adapt - strategy for ultimate success

Course type and teaching methods

A powerful blend of discussion, exercises, case studies and examples supported by formal lectures. Step 1 - deal with your psychology, so expect to be challenged, positively. Too much depends on this area and we take it upon ourselves to ensure you succeed.