Time Management Course E-Book

TIME MANAGEMENT COURSE

Would you like an extra 8 hours a week? 

This course will enable you to achieve this.

Benefits of excellent time management:

·         Greater productivity and efficiency

·         A better professional reputation

·         Less stress

·         The likelihood of more promotions

·         More time to achieve important goals

·         Accomplishment of what really matters

·         More focus at work

·         A strong sense of accomplishment every day

·         A feeling of control over your day

If you have ADD / ADHD, this course can help you immensely.

On the other hand, failing to manage your time effectively can have some very undesirable consequences.

·         Missed deadlines

·         Inefficient workflow

·         Unhappy customers

·         Unhappy suppliers

·         Unhappy team members

·         Poor quality work

·         Bottlenecks in the system

·         A poor reputation in the workplace

·         A derailed career

·         Being overlooked for promotions

·         Higher stress levels

·         More ill health

·         Less time for hobbies and fun

The purpose of the course is to get you to build new and great habits for managing your time.

“Time management” is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between specific activities. Good time management enables you to work smarter which means that you can get more of the right kind of activities done. And in fact, you can get more done in less time even when time is tight and pressures are high. Managing your time is very important. What you accomplish during the day will determine how efficient, how productive, and ultimately how successful you are.  Good time management also means less pressure, more down-time for relaxation, and greater wellness.  Research shows that high achievers manage their time exceptionally well.

Time management is more than how busy you are.  In fact you can be really busy with activities that are not useful.  Being busy is not the same as being effective.  The question is not how busy you are, but how effective you are.  And the chances are that if you are overwhelmed all the time then you are not being that effective.  Being effective and efficient means some time has to be given to planning. 

Spending some time learning how to manage your time has huge benefits for you right now and in fact long into your future.

In this day of technological advancements there is plenty of software and lots of apps available to help you manage your time better.  For this course you don’t need these.  You are more than welcome to search through all the available supporting tools out there, and use what you want, however we are not going to use any specific tools in this course. Because you can in fact manage your time very well without the tools. A notebook, diary, e-calendar such as Outlook, and spreadsheets can do the job as well as many apps.  And in fact all the tools in the world are not going to help you if you don’t have the self-discipline to follow the steps involved in learning to make good time management a habit.

This four-module course is divided up as follows:

Module 1: Multitasking, dealing with interruptions and distractions, managing email, managing social media and the internet, managing phone calls

Module 2: The work environment, procrastination, managing boundaries, delegating, self-motivation and attitude, leveraging resources

Module 3: Recording and capturing work to be done; goal setting, organising and prioritising

Module 4: Planning (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly), scheduling, doing, building routines

In this course there is information and there are exercises for you to do.  At certain points we recap what was discussed.  The exercises are to help you put into practice what you read and learn. Unlike a lot of courses or reading material, in this course we are very practical.  We cover the how to, and then you learn how to implement the how to. And we do it step-by-step.

There is a lot of material covered and you will most probably get the most out of the course by reading it through and pulling out the learnings that most stand out for you and that will help you improve your time management.  Then read it through a second and third time and do the exercises, and you will find even more information to help you improve your time management.

There are “easy to implement quick wins” in this course, and there are also a lot of tools in this course as well, to help you improve your time management: 

Some examples of tools included:

o   Interruptions log

o   Tools for managing emails

o   Tools for improving your work environment

o   Tools for managing personal boundaries

o   Tools to help you delegate and leverage resources

o   Tools to end procrastination

o   Tasks lists

o   Prioritising tools

o   Yearly / monthly / weekly / daily schedules

Everyone who has done this course has obtained considerable benefits and found their work situations and careers have improved.  You simply have to do this course.  It will make such a difference in your life.