Manage Your Minutes
Published by Pearson
Time management strategies that increase productivity and decrease stress
- Learn effective time management strategies to achieve short- and long-term goals.
- Gain tips for effective time management that also help you build and strengthen work relationships.
- Learn how to prioritize all the demands vying for your time.
- Set boundaries for your time and communicate them effectively.
In today’s workplace, we are constantly trying to carve out “minutes” to be productive. When you manage your time well, you give priority to those things that truly need it. When you don’t, then the result is usually feeling stressed out and not accomplishing much.
If you manage people, poor time management can also have an impact on the whole team’s productivity as there are typically an even broader range of tasks vying for your time. It is important to know how to manage your time well. It’s also vital to know how to manage time in relation to others who are likely to have different priorities, agendas, and expectations. When you have a time management plan in place, it can also reduce stress as you – and others – know exactly what to expect from your time.
Join consultant, author, and trainer, Joanna Gaudoin, as she provides clear steps and in-class exercises to help you manage your time effectively, increase productivity, and decrease stress by creating a time management plan and setting boundaries for the demands on your time.
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What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Prioritize the tasks you need to spend time on
- Plan your minutes, days, and weeks effectively
- Manage time better to help strengthen relationships and reduce stress
- Learn how to deal with challenging time-related situations including saying “No” in a positive way
This live event is for you because...
- You don’t make the best use of your working time
- You find it challenging to prioritize and make time to get key tasks done
- You struggle with others’ requests and with setting boundaries related to time
Prerequisites
- Bring an open mind and your calendar/diary
Recommended Follow-up
- Explore: Personal and Professional Growth and Development playlist
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Segment 1: Why Time Management is Critical (25 minutes)
- Course objectives
- How to get the most out of the course
- Limitations of time
- The importance of effective time management for a cumulative positive effect organizationally
- Common challenges to effective time management
- EXERCISE 1: Consider what your personal biggest barriers are to effective time management.
- Q&A
Segment 2: Making Good Use of Time (40 minutes)
- What time you have – an overall perspective
- How to consider your focus areas and set goals for different time periods
- Which tasks you need to focus on in your role – considering different aspects
- How to assess whether you are spending time on the right tasks currently
- How to prioritize
- Delegating to others effectively
- Break (10 minutes)
- EXERCISE 2: Assess your current time use and contrast with your ideal time use.
- Making sure you have allocated the right amount of time to achieve your goals
- The danger of perfection
- Top tips for getting started on tasks that feel challenging or boring
- EXERCISE 3: Evaluate which type of tasks you find hardest to start work on and identify any themes.
- Q&A
Segment 3: Organizing and Planning Your Time (25 minutes)
- Setting how much time is required for different types of tasks
- Top tips for planning time use across different time periods
- Assessing whether your time management system is working
- Managing your time when under pressure
- EXERCISE 4: Identify the top two habit changes you could make immediately to better manage your time.
- Q&A
Break (10 minutes)
Segment 4: Managing Time Demands from Others (60 minutes)
- Understanding how different people respond to expectations
- Setting and aligning expectations
- Top relationship skills related to time management
- Setting, communicating, and keeping to boundaries
- Top tips for good use of time in meetings
- Communicating changed circumstances to others
- Dealing with unexpected requests, including prioritization
- EXERCISE 5: Think about which people/situations at work cause you the greatest challenges in terms of time and priorities and consider what you could do differently.
Wrap Up & Q&A (10 minutes)
Your Instructor
Joanna Gaudoin
Joanna Gaudoin helps people with great technical skills and experience improve their non-technical skills so they can progress their careers and boost their company’s performance.
During her former corporate career in marketing and consultancy, Joanna realised that being successful involved skills that weren’t being developed or talked about. These “other” professional skills involve knowing how to manage your own Personal Impact and how to effectively build relationships, both internally and externally.
She has run her business Inside Out Image for over a decade and has worked with thousands of people, both individually and in group sessions. She is the author of Getting On: Making work work.