Time and Priority Management
Time and Priority Management - Course Outline
Time and priority management is crucial in today's business environment. Time is a limited and expensive resource that requires as much, if not better, management than money. If time were money, how many people in business would spend it so unwisely and freely, without any focused pre-planning, prioritising or forecasting of the return on the investment? In today's hectic business world, many are still forced to do just that because they don't have the time to change their behaviour. This practical time and priority management training course is for those who want to take more control of their workloads by organising tasks, people and themselves more effectively.
Course Objectives
Recognise the value of effective time management to yourself, your team and your organisation.
Clarify your own and your team's objectives, key areas of responsibility and priorities.
Identify and overcome the primary causes of poor time management for yourself and your team.
Identify time wasters and personal preferences that affect performance in the workplace.
Prioritise your tasks and cope more effectively with day-to-day demands and pressures.
Learn to plan ahead and use your time more effectively to increase personal and team productivity.
Release more time to manage and delegate tasks effectively.
Become more assertive and disciplined, achieving greater control through improved personal organisation, resulting in a healthier, more productive lifestyle both at work and beyond.
Course Designed For
Managers, team leaders and professionals who need to manage time more effectively to enhance their own performance and that of their team.
Course Content
Managing Your Job
Managing yourself and the resources at your disposal
What are you and your team trying to achieve?
Defining your objectives and key result areas
Establishing responsibilities and priorities
Practical Time Management and Planning Activities
Effective use of diaries, time planners, time logs, etc.
Criteria for prioritising - urgent and important
Planning and scheduling your activities
Dealing with interruptions and distractions - staying focused
Managing time under pressure
Developing a proactive approach to short, medium and long term plans
Managing Yourself
Investing time and effort in order to achieve more in the future
Your time management behaviour - preferred working styles
Personal effectiveness - a guide to self-discipline
Highlighting personal 'time-stealers' and areas of weakness
Managing Others and Meetings
Managing people managers, colleagues, team members and customers
Getting more things done through assertive behaviour
Making the most of meetings as participant or chairperson
Effective Delegation
The rules of effective delegation - overcoming personal preferences and prejudices
Using delegation as a means of coordinating the workload of your team/department
Delegation - freeing up your time and developing staff
On-going Self-development
Reviewing your management of time at regular intervals
Overcoming your old habits - maintaining your new standards
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