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Key Learning Objectives
- Assess your current approach to time management
- Identify productivity bottlenecks and the cause of time management issues through environmental mapping
- Practice proven goalsetting techniques that target the short, medium, and long term
- Manage priorities to maximise your return on investment of time – focus on the activities that give you the greatest returns
- Identify and map out systems and processes that will leverage your time in your existing work environment
- Learn best practices in organising work
- Develop a personal time management system and action plan
To get the most out of this practical, hands-on course, please bring along some of your current time management challenges including to do lists, in tray items, etc.
About the Course
In Australia, company leaders and economists alike have recently voiced concerns about productivity. Simply put, how can organisations become more efficient in their operations? The issue has consequences not only for an organisation’s bottom line but also for an individual’s bottom line: the elusive work/life balance.
The key to these challenges is the effective management of workflow, time, people and processes.
This course will equip you with key principles and methods to better manage your time. We start by identifying where you are now and where you want to be, and consider practical solutions for how to get there.
In this comprehensive day’s training, you will discover proven methodologies for realistic goal setting, results-based planning and techniques to take your personal productivity and effectiveness to a higher level.
The course caters for all levels of responsibility within the work environment, to support the achievement of business outcomes.
Participants will be offered an opportunity to share problematic situations with a view to solving productivity issues for the long term, through active discussion and learning how to develop new habits and break old ones. Simple, practical and effective ‘take home’ tools will assist individuals in the development of effective time management and organisation skills.
Who Will Benefit
This course is relevant for all people looking to improve their productivity and task management effectiveness in the workplace. This could include management levels, directors, sales employees, general administration, EAs, PAs and database analysts
Terms & Conditions
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Course Outline
Setting the scene
- Understand the difference between efficiency and effectiveness
- Determine your measures of productivity
- Decide on your compelling reasons to become more productive
- Identify the 4 generations of time management
Activity: Brainstorm productivity measures and compelling reasons to increase your productivity as a group
Analysing your situation
- Identify how and why you operate the way you do
- Recognise your productivity bottlenecks
- Use the circle of influence model to assess your situation
Activity: Complete a self analysis questionnaire to determine your current behaviours including where they came from and how they affect you
Setting goals
- The basic S.M.A.R.T. goal model
- Going beyond S.M.A.R.T. to A.I.C.I. goals
- Looking past the immediate: how to create goals for the short, medium and long term
Activity: Take at least 2 of your current goals and assess them against the models to improve their effectiveness
Managing priorities
- Applying Pareto’s Principle and Parkinsons Law to priority management
- The 4 quadrants of time management: identifying the urgent from the important
- The value of “not to do lists”
- Using the 4 Ds method: delegate, delete, decide, do
Activity: Using your current list of outstanding items, apply these principles to design a new system for prioritising with input from other Masterclass participants
Setting up systems and processes
- Mapping your work environment to identify improvements
- How to put in place timesaving methods for repeat tasks
- Learning from highly organised people and job roles
Activity: Design a flow chart and workplace map to assist with streamlining systems and processes
Action planning
- Using the start, stop, continue model to take the first steps
- 5Ws and 1H: 6 steps to ensure you follow through
- Personal commitment agreement
Activity: Design your own action plan for implementing the ideas from this masterclass which will include identifying your support structures and creating an agreement which will be sent to you 2 weeks after the event as a reminder
On-site & in-house training
Deliver this course how you want, where you want, when you want – and save up to 40%! 8+ employees seeking training on the same topic?
Talk to us about an on-site/in-house & customised solution.
contact
Still have a question?
Sushil Kunwar
Training Consultant
+61 (0)2 9080 4395
training@informa.com.au