**Time Management Training: Getting Your Day Back**
Time Management Training: Master Your Day!
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Length: Full day, 7 hours with breaks
Facilitator: David Smith, Leadership Coach
Course Overview
Ever found yourself saying, "Where did the day go?" or "Why do I feel like I'm a step behind all of the time?" If you're currently nodding along, you're in good Company. After spending hundreds of hours coaching Australian professionals from Perth to Sydney, I found the biggest problem isn't about finding more hours in your day, but reclaiming control of your time so you can invest it in what really matters to you.
This isn't another theory drenched workshop with a tonne of cool systems you will never use. Instead, we're going to attack the ugly mess of your real workday. You know the ones, when you're buried in essential work and three bonafide "urgent" need to know now emails hit your inbox out of the blue, or when you come to and you've just spent the entire morning sitting in meetings that could have been deleted and replaced with standing phonecalls to save time?
The fact is, most time management training doesn't work because it doesn't deal with the real thieves of your time. We'll pinpoint those hidden time wasters and arm you with a set of practical tools that work in the real world, not just in fair weather perfect conditions that don't exist.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Find and terminate 3 mugger victims, personal time wasters that have been affecting their productivity.
How to use a systematic three step 'yes' method to handle delays and interruptions without rocking the boat.
Develop realistic plans using goal setting evidence based forecasting methods which take unplanned demands into account
Deploy professional boundary setting tactics to preserve heads down time without sabotaging team culture
Follow systems of daily and weekly planning that take very little setup, but can give maximum results by being organised this way
Use task batching approaches to minimise switching costs and improve the quality of your work
Keep track of email and meeting obligations in one easy to use system but never miss important communication again!
What You Will Learn
Session 1: Reality check with your time audit
Stripping away some reality versus perception about how much time you are spending what you are doing.
Discovering your particular time wasters and what causes them
Realising the cost of multitasking and constant interruptions
Second Session: The Technique of Realism
How Most Schedules Fail & Determine Time Correctly
Creating this kind of buffer time actually works
Making daily plans that will survive real world chaos
Session 3: Mastering Professional Boundaries
The three step interruption management system
How to say "no" without saying "no", preserving relationships while safeguarding your time
"Setting expectations is like glue with teammates and managers.
Session 4: Systems That Work
Small daily habits that keep you organised (5 minutes or less)
If similar tasks can be batched this will prevent mental exhaustion
Straightforward ways to pace progress without becoming slaves to the system
Session 5: Communication Efficiency
Email management approaches that can reduce reading time by 50%
Conducting the meetings that people actually want to attend
When to use email, the phone, or even meet in person for optimal effectiveness
Session 6: Making Your Plan for Yourself
Developing a tailored 30 day roll out plan
Anticipating barriers and solutions
Establishing accountability mechanisms that contribute to long term success
Course Materials Included
Personal Time Audit Worksheet
Daily Planning Template
Interruption Management Quick Reference Card
Common Email Templates Library
30 Day Implementation Tracker
Follow up resources and local community support provisions
Who Should Attend
This workshop is ideal for:
An overload of demands on team leaders and supervisors
Contributors who have a hard time switching between the project level and operational level daily work
Anyone who often overtime works even if for goodwill on time to go home wanted to
Professionals who seek to achieve a more balanced life without compromising their career growth
Concluding Remarks
Consider this: How great would it be to go home each day from work and know you got done what mattered the most? What if instead of dreading the week to come, you had confidence that you'd made a plan and had all the skills necessary to execute it?
This training would not require going harder or faster, it would require going smarter. You'll come away with new tactics that you can put into use the very next day ( not some complicated patent pending system you have to wait three weeks to get access to ). The majority indicate they see a marked reduction in stress in their day from within 1 week of its use.
This isn't about perfection, it's about progress. By the time we finish working together, you'll know exactly what's been throwing a wrench in all your best efforts, and will have a plan in place for getting the upper hand on your schedule. More critically, you'll have the confidence to sustain those changes when you get busy again, and let's be real, you know you will.
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It's not "whether you have time to learn better time management, but whether you have time not to."