Effective Time Management

Introduction

Effective time management is one skill that is critical to leadership development. People who use these techniques routinely are the highest achievers in all walks of life, from business to sport to public service. Managing time well enables you to be in control of your life; it allows you to act on situations rather than react to situations. According to the Pareto Principle, or the ‘80:20 Rule’, typically 80% of unfocussed effort generates only 20% of results. The remaining 80% of results are achieved with only 20% of the effort.

By applying the skills taught in this course, you can optimize your efforts to ensure that you concentrate as much of your time and energy as possible on high payoff tasks. This ensures that you achieve the greatest benefit possible with the limited amount of time available to you. This time management training has an excellent return of investment as people who have attended it, will be able to get more done in a day.

How Will You Benefit

Upon completion of this program, the participants will be able to:

• Identify the way the you currently use your time
• Crystallize your personal life vision, goals and objectives
• Describe the difference between urgent and important tasks
• Prioritize your tasks
• Apply a range of time management techniques to your life
• Examine how technology can help you manage your time
• Recognize key components of effective goal setting through time management
• Discover your time management strengths and self-management opportunities
• Manage multiple priorities based on validity and urgency
• Redirect your efforts to the most important and valid tasks
• Identify ways to deal with distractions and eliminate interruptions
• Set group goals and priorities
• List barriers to successful time management.
• Understand and demonstrate the use of to-do lists and the ABC prioritization technique.
• Explain the benefits and drawbacks of various calendar systems.
• Write SMART goals and explain their benefit.
• Demonstrate how to say “no.”
• Delegate tasks and assignments.
• Develop an action plan for better use of time.
• Begin implementing goals created during the session.

Who Should Attend

This program is suitable for Senior Executives, Assistance Managers, Managers and Senior Managers.

Methodology

This stimulating program will maximize understanding through interactive & experiential, dynamic strategy games and concepts, group activities ,buddy activities, individual assessments, sample data / information, best practices, examples and tools as well as hands-on case studies.

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