Time Management and Personal Effectiveness

Course Info

Length: 1 Week

Type: Online

Available Dates

Fees

  • Oct-21-2024

    1,500

  • Nov-18-2024

    1,500

  • Dec-16-2024

    1,500

Course Details

Course Outline

5 days course

Dimensions of Time Management & Personal Effectiveness

 

  • Programme introduction and objectives
  • Action planning and enhancing personal and team effectiveness
  • Making the most of office technology
  • Chronistic intelligence
  • Time-stealers and costs of poor time management
  • Priority setting – rational and emotional approaches
  • Ten principles of effective time management
  • Handling and making requests
  • Behavioural analysis and time management
Personal Planning Systems/ Interruptions/Project Planning/Stress
 
  • Getting the best from diaries and to-do lists
  • Proactive planning to meet key responsibilities
  • Developing time-based planning – daily, weekly, monthly plans etc
  • Handling interruptions – developing a time sensitive culture
  • Planning project-type work
  • Principles of Critical Path Analysis and implications for priority setting
  • Understanding stress
  • Managing stress in self and others
  • Dealing with change – taking and getting a positive response
Getting the Best from Other People/Communication /Meeting Skills

 

  • Delegation – giving and receiving
  • Team-working and team building
  • Improving communication and working relationships
  • Assertiveness
  • Effective and efficient meetings – ‘everybody’s a chairbody’
Office Ergonomics/ Managing Information/ Efficient Reading & Writing

 

  • Optimising the office environment
  • Handling the paper-load and developing paperless systems
  • Managing e-mails
  • Improving the efficiency of management reporting
  • Using and developing relational databases
  • Business writing and the principles of ‘rapid composition’
  • Rapid and efficient reading – digesting and retaining  information
  • Mind-mapping
Developing Creativity/Continuous Improvement/ Self-Development

 

  • Developing creativity in self and others
  • How the brain works and creative thinking techniques
  • Developing a culture of continuous improvement
  • Implementing change initiatives
  • Influencing skills – making a case and managing the ‘politics’
  • Continuing professional development – a proactive approach
  • Programme review and action plans

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