Time Management
Developing skills in effective time management can have a real impact on productivity, and can help to ensure that individuals and teams remain healthy and motivated. Effective time management is not just about becoming more organised in order to squeeze more into a working day!
It's about having a clear understanding of one's own priorities and working style/preferences, in order to get the best out of ourselves and achieve the best outcomes. So anyone who wants to make the best possible use of their time in order to achieve their objectives and deadlines; and anyone who has made or is making valiant attempts to manage their time, but for a variety of reasons, cannot keep up the momentum, would benefit from developing their time management skills.
Individuals wishing to improve their skills in relation to time management are often interested in finding ways to:
- Identify and understand their personal approach to work and preferred working style
- Deal with workplace challenges and pressures in a way that ensures important tasks are completed to deadline
- Find and practice time management techniques that suit their own working style and that they can implement straight away
- Avoid burnout by organising their working day/week to ensure that time pressures are kept to an absolute minimum
- Learn to communicate their priorities and boundaries more effectively with others - both to enlist support and to set realistic expectations
- Plan and implement an on-going personal time management strategy.
It is understandable that many people believe that time management techniques are simply for people who are naturally organised. However, the best time managers have simply found ways of managing themselves to get the best out of themselves. Many people believe that they work better when they're up against a deadline. However, working under the constant pressure of looming deadlines is unhealthy, as it can lead to burnout in the long term.
"Either you run the day, or the day runs you." Jim Rohn - Author and Motivational Speaker
How to spot a person who is an effective time manager
Is the person:
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Organised and methodical - at any given time, do they know what they're doing, why they're doing it, and in what order they're doing it?
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Clear about their own boundaries - are they able to say no, or re-prioritise their work where necessary and appropriate?
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Completing tasks comfortably to deadline - are they building in contingency time, to allow for all eventualities - some of which may threaten to de-rail their timings?
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Flexible - can they change their priorities, their working order or working methods to suit the changing needs of their stakeholders (manager, customers, colleagues)?
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Focused on priorities - do they avoid getting sidelined by distractions? Do they have a strong sense of purpose, allowing them to shut out unnecessary but compelling diversions?
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Able to take breaks - do they have a daily lunch break, work normal hours and take all their leave - without falling behind or becoming overwhelmed?
Time Management Training from H2
Our time management training is designed to empower our delegates to become more strategic and effective at managing themselves and their workload. We aim to strike a balance between presenting essential background information, and facilitating participative exercises and discussions that are both challenging and motivating, and that enable useful learning to take place that can be directly applied back in the workplace.
We can deliver time management training virtually, or at a venue of your choice, for any number of participants.
Ready-to-Go Courses: Over the past 24 years, we've worked hard to devise and develop a range of courses that suit the broad needs of our customers. Ready-to-Go course titles relating to the topic of time management include:
- Time Management
- Delegation Skills
- Managing Under Pressure
- Managing Your Manager ("Proactive Supervisee")
- Negotiation Skills
- Project Management
- Stress Management
- Emotional Intelligence
- Assertiveness Skills
Bespoke Courses: If you have something more specific in mind, we can design and deliver a tailored course for you. Following a short pre-course consultation, we'll put together a course programme that reflects your specified priorities, and that includes exercises based on real-life case studies/scenarios.
One-to-One Training: We also offer time management training for those who may benefit from the undivided attention of our trainer. These one-to-one sessions are entirely focused on the specific needs/interests of the delegate, and are extremely well received for achieving lasting learning and observable improvements.
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Please CONTACT US today - just give us a brief outline of what you're looking to achieve, the number of participants and the proposed location, and we'll get back to you shortly.