Time Management

(Two-day Workshop)

It takes a commitment from you. You must be willing to change habits established over a lifetime, be willing to change your philosophy from “I have no control” to “I am jealous of my time and no-one takes it away without my permission.”

YOU WILL LEARN:

• What habits are key to good time management
• How to change your thinking about time
• Where you are at, what you can change quickly
• To identify which habits are most critical to your job
• To prepare action plans that work

COURSE OUTLINE

Where are you now, where do you want to be?

• identifying what habits you want to change
• understanding steps to begin a new behaviour: it takes 7-20 times of a repeated process to change a behaviour

Attitudes

• creating a positive climate for you and your work environment
• self-discipline - the difference between knowing what to do and doing it
• developing the attitude that you are in control of your time
• becoming a change artist in your future

Procrastination

• finding ways to deal with the attitude of procrastination
• using Swiss cheese approach to stop procrastinating
• working through a reward system

Goals

• developing SMART goals and connect them to your life goals
• determining which is most important and becoming flexible
• using task Analysis to make the goals happen
•  taking those goals and planning your day around them
• developing Action Plan to improve goals

Priorities

• identifying important vs. urgent items for daily tasks
• determining where important and urgent viewpoints conflict with others opinions and determining how to deal with that
• knowing when and how to say "no"

Analyzing

•  identifying time problems by doing a three-day time log
•  keeping a time log back at work and questions to ask when analyzing your days
• knowing how to continually track your time including interruptions, without spending a lot of time doing it
• evaluate your accomplishments and setbacks so you can learn from them
• you have to spend time to save time

Planning

• changing the reactive pattern: if you fail to plan, you plan to fail
• knowing ways to estimate time for each activity
• determining what to do on a weekly basis using the goals as a focus
• preparing Action Plan to improve planning

Scheduling

•  scheduling quiet time
  
• determining your energy cycle to plan your day
•  knowing your communication model and how that affects your scheduling techniques
• benefits and methods to get an early start

Interruptions

• simple easy methods to manage interruptions
• prevention and reduction techniques to use
• quick easy methods to analyze your interruptions

Meetings

• techniques for productive meetings
• taking control of the meetings, by the participant
• preparing easy agendas and action items

Paperwork

• handle each piece of paper as many times as you have to, just do something with it each time
• use the priority system to deal with paper
• C drawer and other techniques
• getting rid of the “black hole”

Delegation

• make the delegated person responsible for their tasks
• decide what level of authority to go to when delegating
• don’t do it yourself, delegate it to the right person

This workshop is highly-interactive involving lecturettes, discussions, checklists, case studies, and the recognized Inscape Publishing learning tool, Time Mastery Profile at a cost of $18 per participant.

For information regarding this course, please contact:

Colin Watson
Relationship Manager
J Watson Associates Inc

Tel: 905 820-9909

E-mail: sales@jwatsonassociates.com