Effective Time Management for Peak Performance

Duration: 2 Days

Introduction

This 2 day program gives you 3 self assessments that help you to identify specific areas that cause time management challenges, such as prioritization, procrastination, productivity and how you manage interruptions. The assessments bring personal awareness by revealing personal blind spots of individual working habits, and offer clarity on how you can improve concentration and focus to achieve better performance.

You'll learn to schedule your time more effectively, stay on track and keep important goals top of mind. You will stay in balance, be more effective and productive yet have more time to relax. Our trainer will show you powerful time management techniques and strategies that you can use at work as well as in your daily life.

Course Objectives

Upon completing this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify time wasters and valid priorities
• Define goals and establish important and valid priorities
• Create a realistic and productive schedule
• Deal with self-distractions and manage interruptions effectively
• Increase productivity by using technology efficiently
• Overcome procrastination and get motivated to do difficult or unpleasant work
• Deal with interruptions that sidetrack and break your focus
• Create boundaries and balance the demands of work and personal life
• Prioritize and choose activities to balance life and work

Key Content

Module 1: Everyone has 24 hours a day

• How good is your time management?
• 5 principles of time management
• 10 common mistakes of time management
• Procrastination self-check
• Overcoming procrastination

Module 2: It's all about productivity

• Productivity evaluation
• 5 principles to maximize your productivity
• Prioritize your work with urgent and important matrix
• Constructing your priorities with 80/20 principle

Module 3: Essential time management tools

• Understand SMART goals
• Constructing your long and short term goals
• Plotting weekly default diary
• The reason to have a daily to-do list

Module 4: Managing time stealers

• Managing interruptions effectively
• Being organized to create more time
• Effective record management
• Organizing effective meetings

Module 5: Committing to do something different

• Methods to improve concentration at work
• Working optimally with your body clock
• Dealing with information overload
• Leveraging effectively for more time and productivity

Target Audience

This program is suitable for executives, young managers, supervisors and any level of staff who would like to improve personal effectiveness by better management of time.