SUBJECT AREAS COVERED

Fundamentals

• Understanding barriers to successful time management

• Techniques for managing your time effectively

• Overcoming productivity obstacles:

  • Learning how to politely say ‘no’
  • Avoiding multitasking
  • How to be better at delegating and save time
  • Overcoming perfectionism: learning to let go
  • Personality drivers - how to resist them and be in control of your time
  • 8 proven strategies to overcome procrastination

Prioritising & Planning

• What is a priority?
• Urgent vs. important: the priority quadrants principles
• How to find more time for important tasks by reducing unimportant ones
• Acquiring practical skills for planning, scheduling and prioritising work
• Solutions to reduce the impact of ‘time stealers’
• Stress: why does it occur and how to overcome it

Organisation & Systems

• What is a time management system, and why you need one
• How to build a single trusted time management system
• Masterlist and Daily to-do lists, why you need both
• Tools and Apps to help you organise your day
• How to deal with recurring tasks more efficiently
• Systems to manage emails and keep them under control
• Managing your diary effectively and avoiding stress

Meetings & Working Environment

• How to create a productive workplace and reduce stress
• Reducing interruptions and distractions at work
• Top tips to write efficient to-do lists for both daily and weekly workload
• Holding productive work meetings
• Taking effective minutes during a meeting
• How to keep meetings on track
• Effectively dealing with with conflict and disagreement during meetings