Learn Manage Your Time Better
Good time management helps us to plan and control how much time we spend on specific tasks or activities to improve productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Time management is important in a variety of contexts:
- At work.
- In business.
- In your personal life.
Some people are better at managing time than others. However, most people - even relatively good time managers - can improve their time management. In doing so, work and life more generally can become more productive and run more smoothly.
Develop skills to help you manage time indifferent contexts and lead a more productive and fulfilling life
Study this course to:
- Discover the pitfalls of poor time management.
- Learn tools and strategies for effective time management.
- Master time management - one of the most important life skills.
Time management tools and strategies are essential life skills, so if you think that you could benefit from managing your time more effectively, this course should be on your Professional Development 'to do' list.
Lesson Structure
There are 8 lessons in this course:
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Nature & Scope of Time Management
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Outcomes of Good Time Management
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Importance of good time management at school or college
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IMPORTANCE of good time management at work
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Importance of good time management at home
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Links to work/life balance
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Work/Life Balance & Health
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Relaxation & Reflection
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A Few Cautionary Notes
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Obstacles to Time Management
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Personal Barriers
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Identifying your Time Management Personality Type
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Conscious and unconscious barriers to Time Management
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The Consequences of Poor Time Management
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Time Management Strategies
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Key strategies
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Planning
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Setting Goals
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Time management at home and at work
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General Tips for Students
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Time management techniques
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Pomodoro Technique
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45/15
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Time Boxing
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Sequential Scheduling – Batches
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Time Management Assessment Tools
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Introduction
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Auditing Your Time
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Self-Assessment
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Identifying Your Potential Timewasters
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Prioritising Time
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Introduction to prioritising
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HOW TO prioritise
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Techniques for prioritising
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Kanban Board
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Covey’s Time Management Matrix
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Moscow
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Workload management skills
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Maintaining Productivity
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Measuring Productivity
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Motivation tools
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OKR
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SCRUM
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Maintaining energy levels
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Effective Delegation
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What is delegation?
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Reasons Why Some Managers Fail to Delegate
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How can delegation help with time management?
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Problems Associated with Failure to Delegate
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Micromanagement & Poor Time Management
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When to delegate
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Benefits of Delegation
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How to delegate
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Some delegation Tools
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Other Time Management Tools
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Changing Mindset
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Some Habits to Try and Avoid
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Other time management tools
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Staying on Track with calendars & planners
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Aims
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Discuss the role of time management in all aspects of life.
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Identify what impacts your ability to effectively manage your time.
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Explain key strategies which can be employed to help with good time management.
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Assess how you are currently using your time.
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Identify the ways in which you can prioritise your workload as an approach to managing time.
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Determine how productivity levels can be sustained and managed.
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Determine how and when to use the delegation approach to assist with time management.
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Describe other time management tools not covered elsewhere which can help people to optimise their use of time.
WHAT CAUSES TIME MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS?
Everyone is different. Our genetics as well as our upbringing, shapes the person we are. There are all sorts of things that can become barriers to effective time management -and often those barriers are no fault of your own. They may be simply a result of the circumstances you find yourself in, or how you developed through childhood. Circumstances can however always improve if you recognise and understand issues that might be affecting you, and have tools to deal better with those issues.
Some potential personal barriers to good time management include:
- Personality trait
- Conscious and unconscious barriers
- Self-awareness
- Intelligence
- Seeing the big picture
- Health
- Motivation
- Expectations of others
- The consequences of poor time management
- Wasting time – procrastination, organisational skills
- Education
- Culture
Who is this course for?
This course is suitable for all sorts of people including:
- Business owners
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Employees
- Coaches
- Teachers
- Students
- Healthcare workers
Just about anyone can benefit from sharpening their time management skills.
This course can be a valuable learning experience for any business owner, manager or supervisor who has not studied time management before.
Our Time Management course can assist you master one of the most important skills for life:
- Improve your productivity at work and become more organised.
- Be less stressed and more prepared for unexpected events.
Enrol and start improving your time management skills today.
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