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Workshop title: Time Management (Introduction)

Aim: This workshop has been designed to give managers and staff more control of their time, reduce their stress and help them to be more productive

Designed for: Anyone wanting to manage their time more effectively

Objectives: By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

•  identify the purpose of their job and set clear goals and key result areas which support that purpose
•  decide the priorities on their time in terms of the important and the urgent, the positive active and the reactive tasks
•  use planning techniques to control their workflow, to meet deadlines and to work in a helpful way with colleagues and clients
•  identify which time stealers are robbing the company most of their time and make action plans to remedy this
  

Method: The workshop will be highly participative, using discussion and exercises. Participants are encouraged to contribute from their own experience and learn from each other. Each person receives a workbook and set of notes to help put the ideas into practice

Length: One day - 9am to 5pm

Preparation: All participants are asked to complete a time log of their work activities over five days to give an overview of their current approach to their time, their activities and their job. They are also asked to complete a short questionnaire to help them think through some of the main areas of the workshop

Follow-up: Each person writes their own action plan to apply the learning of the workshop; they will be asked to set themselves goals and undertake agreed positive actions which will help them to take more control of their time

Facilitator: Shân Dobinson is a management consultant with a wide range of companies, charities and Christian organisations

Workshop Content: Time Management (Introduction)

Approaches, attitudes and assumptions

•  Your time management hinges on your own view, and therefore your use and abuse of time
•  Time management principles and myths
•  The company's, the team's and your purpose as a measure for your time management

Goals and key result areas

•  To identify goals which will turn the theory into practice, the purpose into action
•  The difference between efficiency and effectiveness
•  Methods of working out priorities in relation to goals

We never plan to fail, we only fail to plan

•  Flexible and forward planning to achieve deadlines
•  How to keep on top of priorities and make them happen
•  The truth of time logs - whether time is spent where the goals and priorities require

Time stealers

•  To prompt ideas for controlling those things and people which most deflect you from your key result areas
•  How to control paperwork rather than it control you
•  The demands of the telephone and the facsimile
•  Working with others and not against them