This pack tackles head-on the problem with most time management training - the fact that most people go away with good intentions but fail to implement what they've learned.
Time to be Effective doesn't duck these issues. It addresses them and helps you overcome scepticism. The activities enable you to explore why people haven't used time management techniques in the past - and how to find approaches that really work for them.
The secret of these activities lies in the personalisation of the learning. Each activity is made relevant and immediately useful to the individuals in your training group. And because they'll be able to recognise the benefits to themselves (as well as to their organisation), your participants will be motivated to apply what they've learned.
Time management areas covered include:
- Diarising
- Using a time log
- Cluttered desks
- Task planning
- Freeing up time
- Internal politics
- Dealing with overload
- Procrastination
- Assertiveness
- Interruptions
- Working with others
- Effective meetings
- Delegating
- Long term solutions and quick fixes
- Increasing productivity
List of Activities:
1. What can we learn from each other?
Formula for a successful time-management workshop.
2. Where does your time go?
Creating a timelog that really works.
3. Analysis of the timelog
Gaining vital information for improved performance.
4. What is the point?
Addressing reluctance to change.
5. How well do you know yourself
Exploring ways we avoid taking action.
6. Can good time management really reduce stress?
Exploring the positive results on work and life.
7. Plan your tasks
Developing a task list to unlock hidden time.
8. Control your diary
Managing your diary so that YOU control it!
9. It's what you achieve not what you do
Identifying progress opportunities to produce those extra results.
10. Increasing productive time
Managing significant time-wasting situations.
11. Spot the cluttered desk
Understanding how a messy working environment can and should be avoided.
12. Interruptions - they can't be avoided but they can be managed
Finding real solutions to one of your key 'black holes'.
13. Dealing with time-stealers
Learning how to identify and manage them.
14. The general principles of delegation
Achieving real results through others.
15. How effectively do you delegate?
Practising delegation skills using real tasks.
16. I'm sure I don't procrastinate
The key signs of procrastination and its consequences as a major cause of underperformance.
17. Do you help or hinder your secretary?
How to avoid mishandling one of your key resources.
18. How do you both get what you want?
Identifying the ultimate 'win-win' scenario.
19. How to make the changes stick
With commitment and support it CAN be permanent.
278 pages, with 118 OK to copy pages.
