Corporate Time Management Training Course

1. Essentials of time management 

• Contrasting time planning and time management 
• Avoiding the psychological time trap 
• Taking control of your life through the choices you make 

2. Determining your time style 

• Evaluating your current strengths 
• Characterizing your style of time management 
• Recognizing opportunities for improvement 
• Assessing the effect of your time style on others 

3. Gaining control over your time 

• Identifying your unique pivotal time-related issues 
• Appraising your situation with an Issues/Impact matrix 
• Targeting factors that adversely impact your time

1. Incorporating a time-planning process model 

• Harnessing the power of a structured approach 
• Reusing the model throughout your life 
• Customizing the model to fit your style and needs 

2. Determining your primary purposes 

• Assessing clarity of purpose 
• Mind-mapping your current situation 
• Defining the purpose for each of your commitments 

3. Assessing your realities 

• Weighing the value of current efforts 
• Making choices in a planned way 
• Deriving tasks — the raw material of time planning

1. Envisioning where you want to be 

• Leveraging the power of imagination 
• Articulating your mission 
• Choosing a future that works for you 

2. Formulating challenging goals 

• Creating a sense of direction 
• Generating personal momentum for action 
• Setting WISE goals 

3. Moving toward your goals 

• Initiating changes to your situation 
• Selecting steps and actions

1. Focusing your attention 

• Taking steps to boost your concentration 
• Profiling your energy levels 
• Aligning tasks with your high and low periods 

2. Proactively identifying your priorities 

• Maximizing the Important/Urgent matrix 
• Applying the Pareto Principle for the greatest results 
• Developing the habit of immediate attention 

3. Building your schedule 

• Assigning tasks to a weekly and daily schedule 
• Scheduling to create a greater work/life balance 
• Creating a dynamic to-do list 
• Reducing mental clutter

1. Overcoming procrastination 

• Identifying the root causes of inaction 
• Beating the deadline-driven trap 
• Approaching your tasks positively 

2. Diffusing the impact of others 

• Asserting yourself politely and calmly 
• Conquering overcommitment 

3. Dealing proactively with information overload 

• Customizing your workspace 
• Stepping off the "e-mail-go-round" 
• Evaluating your information flow and retrieval process

1. Analyzing your progress 

• Conducting regular reviews 
• Comparing planned vs. actual usage with a time log 

2. Changing your time habits for the better 

• Calculating potential time savings 
• Exercising the freedom to do it your way