Planning For Effective Time Management

Do you want to take more control of your workload but don’t know how to go about it? Do you need TIME to reflect on how you can organise yourself, your tasks and your team more effectively? We will help you devise a personal action plan that you can apply to your professional life so that you feel less stressed at work. We will teach you coping strategies including how to:

• Plan your workload
• Monitor your progress
• Clarify key tasks, priorities and responsibilities for yourself and others
• Deal with the tyranny of the ‘urgent’
• Identify your personal ‘time wasters’ and overcome them
• Create more efficient schedules
• Spend quality time on important activities
• Assess the stress factors related to poor time management
• Discuss time management issues with your manager
• Create a personal action plan to improve how you manage your time

About this workshop

• This workshop will involve you in a mixture of interactive exercises and discussion. There will be opportunities to practise your new skills through role playing exercises in a supportive atmosphere.
• Our trainers are experts in their topic and deliver courses in a practical, interactive style
• The maximum number of people on a training course is 12 so that the trainer can accommodate the learning needs of each delegate
• A two course buffet lunch and unlimited tea and coffee are included in the price

Timing
Courses start at 9.30 a.m. and end at 4.30 p.m. with half an hour for lunch.

Is this the right course for me?
This is an inclusive course for anyone struggling with personal and professional time management issues or having to take time management decisions that affect others.

Level
Introductory

About the Facilitator

Ray is an accomplished trainer specialising in management development and has more than eighteen years of experience. He attended university as a mature student to achieve an Honours degree, thereby progressing into teaching. Ray has worked for a cluster of quality dealerships such as Porsche, Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz and became the Training Manager of the same Scottish quality dealership group. He has worked with a wide portfolio of clients since and has helped them become more efficient in a variety of areas including customer service, team building and problem solving.

Ray has carried out assignments in aerospace, defence, local and national government organisations, a wide variety of manufacturing and service companies and the National Health Service. He is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. In addition, Ray is a qualified assessor and verifier with the Scottish Qualifications Authority and has extensive working knowledge of the ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management) qualification.

 

Support available
If your business is located in the West of Scotland you may be eligible for a grant of up to 50% of the cost of participating in these courses. There are a number of places available which are reserved for businesses with less than 250 employees and companies must meet certain eligibility criteria.

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Options

• We can customise this course for you if you have a particular challenge in your company.  One of our specialist advisers will be happy to work on a solution with you.  If you have a group of 12 people who need the same training customised learning is a cost effective way to develop them and costs can be as little as £100 per person. Click here for more information.
• We can also provide one to one coaching in this subject area. Click here for more information