Effective Time Management in the Workplace

Learn to manage time, and work as a team, with our team-building courses in Sydney.

Many surveys confirm that employees believe that up to 30% of their day is wasted. Time is our most precious resource. It is finite. It dictates how much time we spend at work and how much time we have free outside of work. There are many skills we can adopt to better use our time.

In this course, we will discuss, roleplay and learn these skills.

You will take home your own time management strategy document for implementation in your workplace.

Outcomes

By the end of this time management course, you will have gained an understanding of:

• the principles of good time management
• time management issues, the so-called time 'killers'
• how to deal with time 'killers'
• time management strategies to address time killer’s tailored to each person’s job
• constant review and adjustment strategies
• keeping the process on track so time killers are kept at bay

Ideal for

• Employees with time pressures
• Employees at all levels and for all business sizes
• All industry sectors, government and not for profit

Course Content

What is effective time management and why is it often so hard to do it well?

• Overview of the course structure
• Class introduction and why good time management is so important
• What is time management
• What is good time management
• Sharing experiences of time management – successes and issues
• Understanding the business we are in and their attitude to time and how it impacts each of us
• Looking at general time barriers
• Introducing a time management strategy

Your job and its time demands

• Linking your job description, outcomes and objectives to time management
• Job processes
• Examining ‘what’ we do
• Examining ‘how’ we do it
• Identifying time wasters
• Identifying time-dependent relationships

Creating a time management strategy for each student

• Strategies for dealing with time-wasting activities
• The ORA technique
• Setting priorities
• Looking at personal barriers
• Institutional barriers
• The team
• The culture
• Our interdependencies
• Dealing with what we can’t control
• Putting our strategy down on paper
• Plan implementation methodologies
• Follow upkeep it on track

We provide

• Handouts
• A time management tool kit for implementation in your workplace