Time management training - half-day course, Tony Atherton Training

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Time Management training - half-day course

TIME MANAGEMENT TRAINING - Half-day

Half-day time management course for up to 12 people at your premises. Companies and organisations only. Groups only.

Email direct to Tony Atherton or phone 07976-390960

 

COURSE AIM - Time Management Training - Half day

This is a half-day (am or pm) time management training course covers six principles of personal time management. It helps delegates to achieve more through effective use of their time. It is for small groups, typically up to 12 delegates, and is usually presented at your premises.

A full-day version is available that goes farther and deeper covering nine principles including delegation and meetings skills. And we can offer a very short version suitable for company away-days. Please phone to discuss.

'Fantastic seminar - will help me to organise my life better from a personal and work perspective.'

'Excellent workshop - will put into practice immediately.'


IS THERE A TRACK RECORD?

There is. Tony presented his first Time Management course 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 half-day time management course is relatively new but the full-day 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, Europol, FSC Gibraltar and many others. Tony's 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 - Half day

OBJECTIVES - Delegates will cover six principles of time management. The course objectives are:

  1. Make better decisions about the use of your time.
  2. Apply the principles of time management in their working lives.
  3. Clarify and prioritise their goals / aims and tasks.
  4. Use the 80:20 rule.
  5. Use a systematic approach to planning: To Do Lists, organisers, etc.
  6. Learn to make and use 'Prime Time'.
  7. Improve their skills at taking control of interruptions.

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.

Six principles are covered on this half-day time management training course. Here we describe our standard half-day 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.

INTRODUCTION: KNOW WHERE YOUR TIME GOES

  • Too much to do and not enough time? You are not alone.
  • How proactive or reactive are you?
  • Time Logs: how using them occasionally can be useful.

KNOW YOUR PRIORITIES AND GOALS

  • You cannot do everything.
  • The importance of priorities; using priorities in real life.
  • The question of urgency and importance.
  • Your top four work and career goals. What do you really want to achieve?

USING TO DO LISTS AND A DIARY / ORGANISER

  • How to make a To Do List truly effective.
  • Organising the To Do List, Schedule, Notes and Search.
  • Using your 'organiser' - Paper, PDA, computer or a mix.
  • Building a daily habit.

THE 80:20 RULE

  • The Pareto / 80:20 rule of thumb.
  • The universality of the 80:20 rule.
  • Practical uses of the 80:20 rule.

MAKING PRIME TIME (A1 time, Red time)

  • What it is and why it is important.
  • How to make and defend 'Prime Time'
  • Personal planning: Making and keeping Prime Time.

MANAGING INTERRUPTIONS

  • Handling interruptions - phone, email and people.
  • Controlling when interruptions occur and how long they last.

ACTION PLANS / PERSONAL PLANNING

  • 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

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

TRAINING STYLE Time Management Training Course

This course is about improving personal time management. The training style uses a mixture of talks, discussions, individual work and group 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. 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, Europol (The Hague), Doosan Babcock, 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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Phone 07976-390960

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Clients on behalf of the Institute of Management, Reed Training, Right-Coutts and Fielden-Cegos include:

Time Management book
 

  

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

 

CONTACT US:

E-mail direct to Tony Atherton

Phone 07976-390960

Covers: United Kingdom

  Time Management course half-day: Last updated 8 January 2009