Time management training course, full day - Tony Atherton Training

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Time Management - full-day training course

TIME MANAGEMENT TRAINING - Full-day

Courses for up to 12 people at your premises. Companies and organisations only. No public courses.

Email direct to Tony Atherton or phone 07976-390960

 

COURSE AIM - Time Management Training - Full day

This full-day time management training course aims to help delegates to achieve more through more effective use of their time. It is for small groups, typically up to 12 delegates, and is usually presented at your premises. Depending on their starting point, delegates can improve their effectiveness by more than 10% - although this is difficult to measure accurately.

A half-day version is also available. We can offer an even shorter version suitable for company away-days - please email for details.

'I have been more organised in the last month than I can remember...'

'Exceeded expectations - we all have very heavy workloads but it was worth taking the time out to do this.'


IS THERE A TRACK RECORD?

There is. Tony presented his first course in Time Management on 27th January 1993 for a group of nine delegates from NTL. Since then he has run the course approaching 200 times, training roughly 1500 people. This course has been run in various industries including finance, telecommunications, engineering, food, pharmaceutical, charities, engineering consultancies, defence and other industries. For example, clients have included: NDS, the Royal Navy, the Food Standards Agency, NTL, Scott-White & Hookins, DfEE, NHS departments and many others.

Although Tony now only presents this course on his own behalf he has, in the past, presented it on behalf of the Institute of Management, Right-Coutts, Reed Training and Fielden-Cegos Training. His book "30 Minutes to Manage your Time Better" was published by Kogan Page in 1999 and has been translated into many languages.


COURSE CONTENT - Time Management Training Course - Full day

OBJECTIVES - Delegates will learn to do the following

  1. Make better decisions about the use of their time.
  2. Apply the principles of time management in their working lives.
  3. Clarify their goals or aims.
  4. Prioritise goals and tasks, differentiating between important and urgent.
  5. Use the 80:20 rule.
  6. Use a systematic approach to planning: To Do Lists, organisers, etc.
  7. Learn to make and use 'Prime Time'.
  8. Improve their skills at taking control of interruptions.
  9. Consider how time management might improve their meetings.
  10. Consider delegation as a time management tool.

HABITS In addition, delegates will start to develop three time management habits.

  1. Routinely prioritise their work.
  2. Use an effective 'To Do List' every day.
  3. Routinely set themselves 'Prime Time'.

COURSE DESCRIPTION - Time Management Training.

This describes our standard one-day time management course. However, the needs of delegates will be assessed on the day and the content may be varied, perhaps only slightly, so that the real needs of the delegates are met. We prefer this to simply presenting a standard package.

INTRODUCTION TO TIME MANAGEMENT

  • Too much to do and not enough time? You are not alone.
  • Group work: Your problems with managing time - and your solutions?
  • How proactive or reactive are you?
  • Time Logs: how using them occasionally can be useful.

KNOWING YOUR GOALS

  • Personal values - the underpinning.
  • Your aims or goals - work, career and personal. What do you really want to achieve?
  • Key Result Areas at work.
  • Personal planning: Your values, goals and key result areas.

MAKING PRIORITIES MEANINGFUL

  • The importance of priorities; using priorities in real life.
  • You cannot do everything.
  • The question of urgency and importance.
  • Building a daily habit.
  • Personal planning: Prioritising your goals and key result areas.

REALLY EFFECTIVE TO DO LISTS

  • How to make a To Do List truly effective.
  • Building a daily habit.

SYSTEMATIC USE OF A GOOD DIARY OR ORGANISER

  • Organising the To Do List, Schedule, Notes and Search.
  • Building your own 'organiser' - Paper, PDA, computer or a mix.
  • Building a daily habit.
  • Personal planning: Your own To Do List, Schedule, Notes and Search.

STARTING WITH A's

  • Where to start, the 'Maltese Cross' dilemma
  • The universality of the 80:20 rule.
  • Applying the 80:20 rule and using it with minor tasks.

MAKING PRIME TIME (A1 time, Red time)

  • What it is and its importance to you.
  • How to make and defend 'Prime Time'
  • Personal planning: Making and keeping Prime Time.

MANAGING INTERRUPTIONS

  • Identifying and dealing with time stealers.
  • Handling interruptions - phone, email and people.
  • Can you say 'No!' and if so, how, when and to whom?
  • Controlling when interruptions occur and how long they last.
  • Personal planning: My time stealers; how I deal with interruptions.

MANAGING MEETINGS

  • Group exercise: Top Ten Tips to improve your meetings.
  • Some guidelines for good meetings.

USING AND RESPONDING TO DELEGATION

  • Group exercise: Top Ten Tips for good delegation - giving or receiving.
  • Twelve guidelines for good delegation.
  • Beware of monkeys!

OTHER POINTS

  • Your office / work area space.
  • Handling paper and emails.
  • 70 tips for good time management. Picking your favourites.

ACTION PLANS

  • Action plans are likely to be built up throughout the day but time will be allowed at the end of the course for prioritising action plans and making commitments to turn theoretical plans into action.

CASE STUDIES

  • Case studies are provided in the course notes and may be used if appropriate to the group.

TRAINING STYLE Time Management Training Course

The training style uses a mixture of talks, discussions, group work and individual work in a mix that is as appropriate as possible to the delegates. The actual course may differ slightly from the fine details above as the training is adjusted to match as accurately as possible the needs of the delegates. Delegates are asked to help one another to achieve their action plans. Full course notes are provided which also serve as reference books for later. The normal maximum number of delegates is 12.

THE TRAINER Time Management Training Course

Tony Atherton has been presenting Time Management courses since 1993 and has helped about 1500 delegates with time management courses. His book "30 Minutes to Manage your Time Better" was published by Kogan Page in 1999 and has been translated into many languages.

As a training consultant and published writer, Tony draws on a career in both the public and private sectors including employment in the Royal Navy, GEC-Marconi, the Independent Broadcasting Authority and the University of Hong Kong. For five years he was the Training Manager at NTL and since 1997 he has been an independent trainer and writer. As a published writer he has four books and around 90 articles to his name.

He has trained thousands of delegates from blue-chip organisations - both independently and on behalf of large training companies including Reed Training, Fielden-Cegos, the Institute of Management and Right-Coutts. For example, he has trained delegates in time management from the Financial Services Commission of Gibraltar, NDS, Petty Wood, NATS, Bayer, Scott-White & Hookins, MEI, TGA Building Consultants, Cancer Research UK, Food Standards Agency, the Royal Navy, NTL, etc.

He has also inspected government-funded training on behalf of the Training Standards Council and the Adult Learning Inspectorate.


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This book on time management, written by the trainer, has been translated into many other languages.

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Time Management Full Day: Last updated 23 August 2008