• Identified their biggest ‘time stealers’ which reduce their productivity and established solutions to reduce or remove their negative impact
• Acquired practical time management skills for scheduling, planning and prioritizing work
• Discussed and practiced a range of recognized time management techniques such as
  effective delegation, assertively saying ‘no’ and negotiating alternative solutions

• Identifying your greatest ‘time stealers’
  o Ice breaker exercise, small group and individual reflective exercise
• Guiding principles of time and self-management
  o Planning and controlling your workload
  o Keeping yourself motivated to achieve tasks
  o Reducing travel time and how to optimally use the time available to you
  o Managing communication
  o Small group exercise with presentation feedback and group discussion
• Identifying and managing peak physiological performance time
  o Peak physiological performance and time
  o Importance of breaks and the negative effects of stress
  o Presentation followed by individual exercise and group discussion
• Saying ‘no’ and negotiating solutions
  o Ways to say ‘no’ assertively
  o Identifying potential win-win solutions
  o A demonstration, group discussion, pairs practical exercise
• Prioritizing workload and key tasks
  o Need for task prioritization and ‘Eating your frogs’
  o Methods of task prioritization
  o Presentation, group discussion and individual exercises
• Planning and prioritizing your own workload
  o Templates for planning and prioritizing projects, goals, tasks
  o Planning essentials and practical
  o Presentation, individual practical activity and facilitated group discussion
• Delegating tasks
  o Defining delegation and identifying why we tend not to delegate
  o Benefits and art of effective delegation
  o Presentation, demonstration, group exercise and facilitated group review
• Assigning tasks to be delegated
  o Team skills matrix
  o Identifying the best person for the task
  o Presentation, individual exercise with feedback and review
• Solutions for managing time effectively
  o Finalizing our time management strategies to resolve time stealers
  o Individual reflective and action planning exercise with colleague support

Attendees will get a training certificate after the completion of the course.