How to Manage Your Time and Get Things Done

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- How to Manage Your Time and Get Things Done -

Course Overview

During a typical work week, your Outlook calendar fills up fast. After cleaning out your inbox, attending meetings, taking unexpected calls, talking to customers and colleagues and completing tasks, means that your window of productivity can slowly disappear.

A study in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that time management behaviours, such as planning, prioritising, blocking off time and goal setting has positive effects on daily performance and productivity – because managing time better helps you feel in more control and leads to more work being done, less anxiety and stress and greater job satisfaction.

Through the How to Manage Your Time and Get Things Done training, you will learn time-management strategies from the world’s most productive people. As a result, you will discover how to double your daily productivity and get more things done faster and easier.

Key Learning Outcomes

Identify your personal time management style
Increase personal effectiveness by using techniques that fit your personality style
Establish which time management technique is best for various situations
Customise a time management approach that blends the strengths of the four different styles
Designate your priorities for a balanced life
Apply time-saving techniques
Interact effectively with people, manage interruptions, delegate and maintain a support network
Clear out existing clutter and manage incoming documents
Integrate energy building activities into your schedule

Topics Covered

Traditional time management as a structural approach to the completion of tasks
Non-traditional time management styles
The causes of procrastination from perfectionism and fear of failure to poor memory or lack of organisation

Setting boundaries and saying “no” to coworkers and managers
Managing interruptions by effectively communicating.

Why Learn Online?

Learning new skills online can be perfect for organisations and employees for the following reasons:

You only have one or a few employees to train and develop (on a specific training topic)
Getting a trainer to your location could be difficult or cost-prohibitive
The employees you want to train work from home or are part-time
You don’t have the resources to cover for the employees you want to be trained, so allowing them to the training online means they won’t need to leave their work areas
Your training budget is limited, and online learning is more cost-effective
You want your people trained in a wide range of skills this year,’s online learning provides much better value to get everyone involved in learning and developing themselves.