...course overview

In today's competitive and technology driven work environment it is
essential that you optimise your time use. Increasingly the focus in
work is on increasing performance levels. This often means a demand
to achieve more in less time.

This course helps you gain increased control of your time use, focus
on important objectives and work smarter to achieve more effective
results. Based on best practices that work well this course gives you
strategies, plans, hints and tips that you can immediately apply to
improve your time management. It recognises that different people
have different styles of time management that are effective for them
and their particular type of work and lets you customise your time
management approach to best suit yourself, your organisation, your
technology and your type of work.

You should aim for a 10% gain in productive time use within the first
week of application of the principles learned. Importantly you will
plan actions to help you sustain improved time use.

.....key content

• The value of time management
• Analysing your time usage
• Setting work goals
• Setting work priorities
• Leveraging time use and applying the 80/20 rule and the 95/5 rule
• Working effectively
• Managing your time: strategies and tools
• Using technology
• Manage time wasters and interruptions
• Managing time in meetings
• When and how to delegate
• Balancing work and life
• Your action plan for improved time management and developing professional competence

...what objectives can I
         achieve?

1. Plan personal work goals
2. Organise own work priorities and schedules
3. Identify and reduce time wastage and stress caused by poor
time management
4. Leverage time use and apply the 80/20 rule and the 95/5 rule
5. Plan an appropriate balance of work and life
6. Set up an action plan for improved time management