Course description
Today’s corporate environment is experiencing increased demands, as never before. Therefore, it is imperative for leaders and all personnel in the workforce to adopt innovative techniques focused on working smarter rather than harder. Consequently, practical time management skills are valuable assets for personal development.
What are the benefits of working smarter rather than harder?
Whether in life or at work, most people strive to achieve more within a limited time. Working smarter, not harder, means searching for ways to efficiently utilize your time and energy at work. Most experts employ different techniques to assist them in prioritizing work while identifying the most crucial tasks to implement. Working smarter, not harder, helps boost workplace productivity and overall job satisfaction. Such skills make you an invaluable addition to the organization, helping you earn a higher salary and protect your job security. Besides enhancing workplace productivity, below are some of the benefits of working smarter as opposed to harder:
- Increases motivation
- Boosts self-esteem
- Improves team performance and output
- It helps you conserve energy
- Promotes the image of the organization
- It helps you prioritize tasks
What are productive time management and the challenges of time management?
Balancing productivity with physical well-being can be challenging in the workplace. Quality and productive time management can help workers accomplish the correct work while optimizing and maximizing their potential. Time management involves planning and determining the time needed for particular activities. Time management challenges often arise when individuals try to maximize their productivity and effectiveness in their career and personal life. Most people usually feel that the time available is limited compared to the tasks needed to be implemented. Some of the typical time management include:
- Attempted multitasking
- Overbooking
- Not enough rest
- Lack of organization
- Failure to properly delegate
- Limited time
- Procrastination
- Low motivation
The Rcademy’s Work Smarter, Not Harder: Productive Time Management training course is developed to provide attendees with the tools, skills, motivations, and techniques needed for greater responsibility and control for time management. The course will help participants control workplace stress by properly managing time, resources, and self. Focus is also given to self-assessment, time management challenges, and personal effectiveness. The course covers delegation, task prioritization, SMART goals, and technology management. Participants will learn how to delegate effectively and how to manage expectations correctly.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This training course will help attendees achieve the following objectives:
- Understand how to work smarter and more effectively
- Learn how to optimize workplace productivity
- Learn how to organize, prioritize, and plan daily work routines in a productive manner
- Recognize the various challenges to effective time management and how to overcome
- Learn how to design and implement SMART goals
- Understand the rudiments of effective delegation and the value of delegation
- Learn how to accomplish more tasks within a limited timeframe
- Understand the basics of scheduling and planning
- Learn how to coordinate meetings effectively
- Understand how to prioritize and use technology for better time management
Training Course Content
Module 1: Introduction to Time Management
- Introduction and definition of terms
- The basic principles of time management
- Steps of time management
- Keys for managing time effectively
- Profiling your time
- Time as a resource
- The Mindset
- A systematic approach to priority management
- Challenges to time management
- Time and the appropriate use of time
- Time and money
Module 2: Introduction to Delegation
- Defining delegation
- The barriers to delegation
- Micro-management vs macro-management
- Taking more strategic steps in your delegated role
- The art of effective delegation
- The challenges of delegations
- Avoiding repetitive work
- Deciphering delegation
- When to delegate
- The quantum of delegation
- When not to delegate
- The delegation steps
- Managing demands arising from team members and other departments
- Saving time and energy through delegation
Module 3: Assessing Time Utilisation
- Taking time to think and plan
- Recognizing your biggest time stealers
- Building time management discipline
- Dealing with time stealers
- Managing and distributing your energy
- Strategizing plans to prevent time wasters
Module 4: Time Management Tools
- The Wheel of Life technique
- Pareto’s 80/30 principle
- Aligning Intentions with Purpose
- The task of Batching Concept
- Setting SMART goals
- The stretch goals concept
- Grouping similar items or tasks
- KISS principle
- Multitasking vs mono-tasking
Module 5: Using Technology for Time Management
- Using to-do-lists
- Managing tasks, notes, documents, and appointments through technology
- Google Outlook: tips to use its full potential
- Designing a digitalized and personal system for tasks
- Using calendars, notifications, and schedulers for scheduling
- Putting up an effective filling system for email and paper floods
Module 6: Setting Priorities
- Tasks prioritization
- Designing a customized system for customization
- Guides for prioritizing and planning
- Prototypes of Planning and prioritizing
- Important tasks vs urgent tasks
- Techniques for task prioritization
- Prioritizing workload and focusing on the critical tasks
Module 7: Stress Management and Time Management
- Optimal utilization of time available
- Recognizing inappropriate pressures
- Identify stress triggers
- Saying “NO” assertively
- The value of taking breaks
- The effects of stress
- Avoiding burnouts and overloads
- The trap of over-commitment
- Building a win-win mindset
Module 8: Habits and Time Management
- Defining habits
- The habit formation process
- Habit, time management, and procrastination
- Habits of successful people
- How habits impact performance
- Building new habits
Module 9: Managing Interruptions
- Types of interruptions
- Fire-fighting
- Email interruptions
- Social media interruptions
- Incomplete task delivery
- Phone call interruptions
- Meetings
- Challenges in communication
- Interruption by visitors
- Managing interruptions
- Interruptions and time management
Module 10: Planning and Defining Workload
- Building daily and weekly plans
- Balancing work-life and person-life
- Executing planning in your life
- Using technology in planning
- Planning tools
- Cutting down on the workload
- Electronic planners vs paper planners
Course delivery details
This training course is participant-based and produced to meet attendees’ expectations and enhance their skills and understanding of the topic. Various practical approaches will be employed to ensure participants’ constant and active learning in teaching this course. Foremost experts and professionals within the field with years of experience and practice will present the course. The course modules are drawn from meticulous and exhaustive research into the subject matter.
The Rcademy Work Smarter, Not Harder: Productive Time Management training course incorporates theoretical and practical learning delivered through case studies, lecture notes, slides on the concepts, and real-life scenarios. Participants will also engage in presentations, seminar workshops, quizzes, and regular feedback on lessons learned to confirm their optimum satisfaction.
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