Time and Life Balance

Overview

This one day program will show participants how to get more work done in less time while maintaining a personal and professional balance. You will find out how to get more organised at work, deal with information overload, get more done and have more time to do what you really want to do.

Learning Outcomes

• Learnt how to cope better with information overload
• Identified their most important priorities and learnt how to act on them
• Planned their weeks and days in accordance to those things most important to them
• Identified how to maintain a personal and professional balance
• Developed strategies to cope with email, phone calls, meetings and other time consuming issues
• Discussed how to minimise crises with planning and preparation
• Learnt to reduce their stress levels as a result
• Identified how to become more leadership focused and less task focused
• Developed the use of a diary, paper or electronic, as a tool
• Identified how to increase personal productivity and therefore leisure time.

Course Format

Training is delivered in a relaxed, informal and flexible manner with plenty of
opportunity for questions and discussion. The learning process is very interactive with a variety of exercises designed to stimulate interest and learning. Areas that will be covered:

The Power to Make Things Happen For Us

• Four Generations of Time Management
• Two Time Fallacies

Time Stealers

• Interruptions
• Procrastination
• Shifting Priorities, Poor Planning, Waiting for Answers
• Phone Calls
• Email
• Meetings
• Visitors
• Eliminate Unimportant Activities
• Plan!

Time Management Matrix

• What Do Effective People Do?
• What it Takes to Say "No"
• Goal-Setting Guidelines

Organise Weekly

• Schedule the Most Important Goals

Evaluate

• Evaluate Lessons Learned
• Apply Evaluation Results

The Tools and How to Use Them

• Time Inventory
• Evaluate the Results
• Identify Need Changes
• Use A Prioritised Daily Task List
• Use A Planning Tool Effectively
• Diary and Other Planning Tools