Time Management

Description

Effective time management makes employees more efficient, more effective and less stressed, and is a fundamental skill in all organisations. This brand new toolkit will provide a time management resource which HR managers and consultants can either give to individuals to work through by themselves or which they can adapt to run a training course. The toolkit provides activities and handouts that you can give to managers to use in coaching sessions and it provides activities and handouts that you can give to employees to work through alone. These resources will give you fresh ideas and approaches to improve and freshen up your time management training even if you already use other materials.

The Time Management toolkit:

- will save you time preparing training course materials as the materials you need are already provided in an adaptable format
- provides activities and handouts that you can give to managers to use in coaching sessions
- provides activities and handouts that you can give to employees to work through alone
- gives fresh ideas and approaches to improve and freshen up your time management training provision even if you already have materials.

Contents

Introduction
Section 1 How well do I currently use my time?
1.1 What's important in my job?
1.2 My current use of time
Section 2 Goal setting
2.1 Driving reason to improve my time
2.2 Goal setting with a buddy
Section 3 Managing potential time stealers and interruptions
3.1 Identifying time stealers
3.2 Control and influence
3.3 Getting to the root of the problem
3.4 Exploring procrastination
3.5 Controlling the phone
3.6 Time stealing email habits
3.7 Handling visitors, especially the unexpected or unwanted
3.8 Preventing meetings from stealing your time
Section 4 Prioritising the use of your time
4.1 Bases on which to prioritise
4.2 To do lists
Section 5 Who does the work?
5.1 Saying `no' appropriately
5.2 Delegating to others
Section 6 Action planning and follow up
6.1 Action planning
6.2 Evaluation of your development of time management and personal organisation
6.3 Quantifying and qualifying your achievements
Appendix 1 for Learning Facilitators running Group Sessions
Appendix 2 Relevant CIPD Publications