Time Management Skills Workshop
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Who Should Take This Course
People who want to develop or need to improve on their time management skills.
Course Objectives
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:
- Understand the components of Time Management
- Identify what constitutes procrastination
- Appreciate the reasons why we procrastinate
- Learn anti-procrastination strategies
- Appreciate why we should set goals
- Discuss the Ten myths and realities in goal setting
- Learn SMART goal setting
- Understand the value of task prioritisation
- Learn prioritisation techniques
- Understand why some people fail
- Develop practical communication strategies in the event of deadline failure
Course Outline
Course Outline
Introduction
What do we mean by Time Management?
Time Management
The main components of Time Management
- Procrastination
- Planning
- Goal setting
- Prioritising
- Managing interruptions
Procrastination
Identifying procrastination
- In the individual
- In the task
Why do we procrastinate?
- Laziness
- Apathy
- Inability to complete the task
- Fear of failure
- Lack of planning
Beating the Procrastination Peril
- Beware! Procrastination is habitual
- Rewards
- Peer pressure
- Identify the unpleasant consequences
- Cost
Goal setting
- Long-term vision
- Short-term motivation
- Provides focus
- Helps to organize your time
- Allocation of resources
Goal setting value to you
- Pride in achievement
- Measurement of progress
- Improvement in self-confidence
The value of task prioritisation
- Avoid focussing on easy/enjoyable tasks
- Ensures important tasks identified
- Prioritisation forces task evaluation
- Saves time
Some prioritisation techniques
- Simple – time constraints etc
- The Urgent/Important matrix
- Pareto analysis
10 reasons why people fail
- Action without planning
- Planning without action
- Unrealistic timeframes and expectations
- Reasons “why” unclear
- Denial of reality
- Conflicting values
- Diffusion of energy
- Lack of focus
- Trying to do it all alone
- Fear of failure
Communication strategies when deadlines threatened
- When is “deadline threatened”?
- What triggers next stage?
- Who needs to be aware?
- When to communicate?
- Method of communication
- Rewards and penalties
Summary
- Summarise key points
- Review learning objectives
- Create action plans