This course is Project Management Institute aligned.

Course 710:   Time Management Skills

Course Objectives:
  • Set goals and priorities that enable you to effectively manage your time
  • Combat procrastination, avoid time wasters and handle interruptions
  • Identify, evaluate and select tools that help in time and priority management
  • Avoid over-committing yourself
  • Balance your professional and personal lives
  • Implement a personal time-management action plan

Who Should Attend
This course is valuable for anyone who wants to improve their productivity and strengthen their time-management skills.

This course provides strategies, techniques and tips to set priorities and manage the daily pressures of meeting important and urgent commitments in your life.

This course is PMI-aligned and qualifies for 17 PDUs

COURSE OUTLINE:

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
  • Setting goals
  • Self-management solutions
  • Tailoring a systematic approach
TIME MANAGEMENT FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Recognizing your relation to time
  • Calibrating your internal time clock
  • Mapping your energy profile
Dealing with time paradigms
  • Working with alternative cultural time perceptions
  • Characteristics of the dominant time paradigm
Time-management issues
  • Profiling current time usage
  • Determining time-management pressure points
DEVELOPING BIG-PICTURE GOALS
Assessing your current realities
  • Capturing a complete picture of your life
  • Time-mapping to create your ideal balance
Defining your future
  • Where you want to be
  • Setting your personal goals
  • Clarifying your personal mission
PLANNING FOR SUCCESS
Maximizing your productivity
  • Maximizing your prime time
  • The 15 most important minutes
Planning that works in your life
  • Choosing the right time-management tool for you
  • Setting the ABCs and 1-2-3s of priorities
Handling paper and e-mail
  • Maintaining paper control
  • Making your filing system work
  • Handling the flood of e-mail
Dealing with procrastination
  • Making accurate decisions quickly
  • Combating procrastination
OVERCOMING OVER-COMMITMENT
The trap of taking on too much
  • Warning signs of over-commitment
  • Recognizing inappropriate pressures on your time
Defeating the trap step by step
  • Assessing your over-commitment
  • The magic word for combating overload
CREATING LIFE BALANCE
Assessing the gap between what you do and what you want
  • Creating a healthy balance
  • Identifying steps to success
The professional benefits of a balanced life
  • Making time to think
  • Balancing work and personal life
A TOOLSET FOR GOING FORWARD
  • Easy-to-apply methodologies
  • Customized time-management system