Time Management

Do you make the most of your time or are you always chasing your tail? Do you use to-do lists? And do you know what tasks and activities to focus on at any given time? Today, we have more demands on us than at any time in history at work and home. This has led to tighter deadlines, greater workload and competing priorities – it all adds up! In this topic you’ll learn skills and techniques to help you prioritise your work and avoid time wasters.

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Training Course

For our learning journeys we use our proven excite, engage, embed method to ensure the learning experience is engaging and the learning is sustained. The full details of the programme are shown below.

Course Code: OV-ETM

  • This is available for individuals, groups and teams

  • half-day live session delivered virtually or in-person | 6-8 hrs on-demand learning | 30 mins coaching (optional extra for teams)

  • Part of our Core Library

This course will help you to identify how precious your time is and give you a range of techniques to effectively protect and manage it for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

Through practical exercises and examination of proven time management tools and techniques, you will develop the ability to plan, prioritise and delegate effectively.

This course is for busy people who want to be able to manage their time in the most effective way possible.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Set a positive intent for each day, with a clear purpose and priorities
  • Define your overall purpose and set meaningful goals to help you to achieve it
  • Prioritise daily tasks in a structured and methodical way
  • Delegate your ‘time stealers‘ to prevent them from disrupting your purpose
  • Implement tools and techniques to manage interruptions and distractions
  • Negotiate better outcomes using a positive ‘no‘

 

  • Defining your purpose and priorities for each day
  • Defining the overall purpose of your role
  • Linking your objectives to key result areas and success measures 
  • How to set SMART goals for yourself 
  • Defining the importance and urgency of each task
  • Using urgency/importance to plan and prioritise your work
  • Managing interruptions and distractions that threaten to disrupt your purpose
  • Defining your personal ‘time stealers‘ and how to deal with them 
  • How to say ‘no‘ positively and assertively
  • Removing the barriers to delegation
  • Applying a simple structure to delegating appropriate tasks

For groups & teams

Up to 15 people per programme.

From £3000 (+VAT)

Bring in-house

For individuals

Upcoming dates

£ 625.00 (+ VAT)

£ 625.00 (+ VAT)

£ 625.00 (+ VAT)

£ 625.00 (+ VAT)

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Bitesize Sessions

Available for delivery to groups and teams, our bite-size learning sessions are short bursts of knowledge covering the what, why, and how of a topic, and delivered at pace. Expert-led sessions can be delivered virtually, face-to-face, or you can choose a combination, and they can be run either standalone or up to three sessions in a day.

Time Management

Time Management

Course Code: VILT-TM

  • 90-minute live session delivered virtually or in-person (Perfect for use as part of a blended learning programme)

  • This is available for groups and teams

  • Part of our Core Library

We all know that time is highly elastic – sometimes a whole day seems to contract into just a few hours, and other days seem to stretch on forever. On different days, the clock seems to be either your best friend or your worst enemy.

However, there are ways you can regain control of your time, and ways you can use time’s elasticity to suit your own purposes. There are ways to manage your time so that you can improve both your efficiency (getting things done) and your effectiveness (getting things done right).

There are three keys to effective time management:
1. Planning - defining your purpose and your goals;
2. Prioritising - deciding what to do and when; and
3. Negotiating - agreeing parameters with other people.

This 90-minute workshop will help you to recognise just how precious your time is, and give you a range of techniques to effectively protect and manage your time for maximum productivity. Through practical exercises and an exploration of proven time management tools and techniques, you will develop the ability to plan, prioritise and negotiate your time. Confidently and effectively.

 

  • Have you ever imagined what you might achieve with one extra hour every day?
  • Do you ever look back on a busy day and wonder why you haven’t actually achieved anything meaningful?
  • Do you sometimes find it difficult to decide where to start and what to do next?
  • Do you experience multiple interruptions and distractions that seem to steal your time away?
  • Are there a lot of demands on your time that wish you had the confidence to reject?
  • Define your overall purpose and set meaningful goals to help you to achieve it
  • Prioritise your daily tasks in a structured and methodical way
  • Implement tools and techniques to manage interruptions and distractions
  • Negotiate your time commitments more effectively using a positive ‘no’
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Focussing on What Matters

Focussing on What Matters

Course Code: VILT-FWM

  • 90-minute live session delivered virtually or in-person (Perfect for use as part of a blended learning programme)

  • This is available for groups and teams

  • Part of our Core Library

The focus of this 90-minute virtual session is to practise prioritisation. You will be asked to bring along a time log from a given day, and will use this to distinguish between the relative urgency and importance of your tasks, plotting them into a prioritisation matrix. You will leave with a prioritised plan of activities for the next working day. 

 

This short session is suitable for anyone who would like to learn a method of prioritisation that will improve their ability to focus on what really matters to become more successful, efficient and effective in their working life.

  • Prioritise daily tasks in a structured and methodical way to improve effectiveness and efficiency
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A ready-made 'facilitator' kit for people managers who need to host a mini-training session on a single key learning topic. Each run-it-yourself (Session in a Box) will show managers how to run a 25-minute session with their team.

Prioritising Your Workload

Prioritising Your Workload

Course Code: RY-PW

  • Run-it-yourself training

  • This is available for groups and teams

  • Part of our Core Library

This Session in a Box will show you how to run a quick session with your team focused on how to prioritise your workload using the “Eisenhower matrix”. 

We recommend that you host a session during one of your regular team meetings, whenever it’s most appropriate and convenient to do so.

Overall session time varies from 30 – 60 minutes, based on if you decide to utilise both activities.

 

By running this session, you and your team will:

  • Assess how the team currently prioritises and organises tasks, and the impact on well-being
  • Learn a framework to help people manage their work more effectively
  • Draft a set of commitments to help each other become more effective at prioritisation
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Online Learning

Our award-winning learning content library is expertly created, easy to consume, and visually engaging and it can be experienced through a range of modalities - Fluidbooks, videos, animations, podcasts, infographics, quizzes and more. Use our digital learning content to support on-demand or blended learning provision within your organisation. Hundreds of topics are available in multiple global languages.

Time Management

Time Management

Core content

  • Time Management Fluidbook
  • Time Management Infographic x2
  • Time Management Video
  • Time Management Podcast
  • Time Management Quiz
  • Time Management Thrive in Five x4
  • Time Management Podcast
  • Time Management Scenario Cards
  • Apply Your Learning Action Plan
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Find out more about our learning content… we provide a range of formats and media types to support different learning styles, and time pressures and to keep the learning engaging. Find out more about the different modalities and view some examples…

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To help achieve the pace and agility you need, we encourage you to make use of what we already have (our core library) and make it your own. There’s no need to ‘recreate the wheel’ - build from what we have ‘ready to go’ and then customise what you need to.

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  • Live workshops - virtual or in-person training (1 x half-day live session in a day; 2 x half-day live session in a day)
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