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Productivity through Education®
 
 

Effective Time Management

Investing Time for Maximum Return
 
Course: 344   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 2 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Integrate proven time management techniques into your daily processes
  • Make informed decisions about what you do and when
  • Apply a structured whole-brain process to shape your current and future commitments
  • Proactively schedule tasks, construct weekly plans and daily to-do lists
  • Adopt strategies and techniques to handle procrastination and interruptions
  • Develop a personal action plan to reap the most benefit from your efforts

Course Benefits

The productivity of individuals and organisations hinges greatly on their ability to plan and manage time efficiently. Harnessing this critical resource increases both employee output and organisational competitiveness. In this course, you gain the personal insight and practical skills to develop and implement a framework for successful time management. You adopt proven tools and techniques to make better day-to-day choices about investing your time and achieving your goals.

Who Should Attend

Those who want to increase their productivity by proactively choosing how and when to invest their time and those wishing to develop more balance and control over their time commitments.

RealityPlus
Extensive individual and group activities immerse you in a real-world environment based on your own unique time management situation. Activities include:

  • Identifying your personal time style
  • Constructing and applying an Issues/Impact matrix
  • Mapping and analysing current commitments and preferred future situations
  • Formulating WISE goals
  • Modelling interpersonal techniques to handle interruptions based on a video scenario
  • Collaborating with others to create best practice guidelines
  • Developing a customised post-course time management toolkit

Related Courses

  • 292 Communication Skills
  • 294 Influence Skills
  • 297 Personal Skills for Professional Excellence
  • 345 Delivering Dynamic Presentations
  • 290 Management Skills
  • 296 Project Management: Skills for Success
  • 284 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • 244 Assertiveness Skills
  • 246 Managing Information Overload

 
PMI R.E.P. logo is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc. RealityPlus is a trademark of Learning Tree International.
   Effective Time Management

Upcoming Dates

26 - 27 May, 2010
London
9 - 10 Jun, 2010
Edinburgh
4 - 5 Aug, 2010
London
20 - 21 Oct, 2010
London
3 - 4 Nov, 2010
Edinburgh
12 - 13 Jan, 2011
London
2 - 3 Mar, 2011
Edinburgh

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0800 282 353 or +44 1372 364610
Productivity through Education®
 
 

Effective Time Management

Investing Time for Maximum Return
 
Course: 344   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 2 Days   PMI: 11
 
 
Course Content
 

Introduction to Time Management

  • Perceiving time as life
  • Adopting a whole-brain approach

Managing Time through Self-Management Principles

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
  • Recognising opportunities for improvement
  • Assessing the effect of your time style on others

Gaining control over your time

  • Appraising your situation with an Issues/Impact matrix
  • Targeting factors that adversely impact your time

Mapping and Analysing Your Current Situation

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

  • Mind mapping current commitments and responsibilities
  • Defining the purpose for each commitment

Assessing your realities

  • Weighing the value of current efforts
  • Making choices in a planned way
  • Deriving tasks—the raw material of time planning

Planning for the Future

Envisioning where you want to be

  • Leveraging the power of imagination
  • Articulating your personal mission
  • Choosing a future that works for you

Setting challenging goals

  • Creating a sense of direction
  • Generating personal momentum for action
  • Formulating WISE goals

Moving toward your goals

  • Initiating changes to your situation
  • Selecting steps and actions

Prioritising and Scheduling

Focusing your attention

  • 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 to determine the greatest results for least effort
  • Prioritising with ABC123

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

Managing Your Time Day to Day

Overcoming procrastination

  • Identifying the root causes of inaction
  • Beating the deadline-driven trap
  • Approaching your tasks positively

Diffusing the impact of others

  • Handling interruptions constructively
  • Asserting yourself politely and calmly
  • Conquering over-commitment

Developing workspace best practices

  • Customising your workspace
  • Stepping off the "e-mail-go-round"
  • Designing a personal 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
  • Writing a Personal Statement of Commitment
 
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Productivity through Education®
 
 

Effective Time Management Tuition

Investing Time for Maximum Return
 
Course: 344   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 2 Days   PMI: 11
 
 

Course Fees
£ 1,150 Standard Fee
Savings Plans
£ 1,000Flex-Training Pass
£ 50010-Day Training Pass
£ 1,520Voucher 10-Pack
£ 1,035Alumni Gold Discount
 

Your Course Fee Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • FREE participation in the Learning Tree Professional Certification Programmes (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Flex-Training Pass
  • 3 Courses for £2,995
  • As little as £1,000
  • Savings as much as 50%
  • 3 courses in 24 months
10-Day Training Pass
  • Save as much as £895 per course
  • Any combination of courses
  • Only £2,495
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as £625 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as £1,520 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you will receive a personalised Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as £210 on each course you take in the following 24 months. Take just one course every two years, and you will be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year. You save 10%.
* Exact savings may vary depending on courses selected.

Your Guarantee of Satisfaction

Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course - and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the fee.

Enrolling is Easy and Flexible!

Enrol by phone or online. If your plans change, just let us know and, without a fee, you can transfer to another course or cancel your enrollment. Pay after you've taken the course, and then only if you are 100% satisfied.
 
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