Time Management Training: Getting Your Day Back
Time Management Training Reclaiming Your Day
The No Time to Cook! Book..!
Course Overview
We've all been there, feeling like we're going to have a productive day at work, only to have emails pile up, surprise meetings that pop up, and "urgent" tasks that seem to replicate themselves before we can even get to them. This is an all inclusive training programme for Aussie professionals if you are simply sick and tired of feeling like you are always going to be playing catchup with your life.
This isn't about turning you into a productivity machine or making you conform to systems that breakdown the second they crash into reality. Instead, we concentrate on practical tools and techniques that get results the real world, where deadlines get changed, meetings run long and life throws you those curves.
Utilising tried and tested time management techniques and real life work situations, you will learn to recognise between true productivity and just being busy. You will understand how to recognise and erase the secret time thieves that hijack your attention and discover skills for honing focus like a muscle under stress.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the programme, students should be able to:
Evaluate and enhance their existing time management habits to where immediate improvements can be made.
Implement systems that allow for successful prioritisation even when everything feels urgent.
Acquire professional boundary setting techniques in order to safeguard time to focus and still be well liked at work
Build in your own on the go and trauma informed daily and weekly planning systems with space for both interruptions and unforseens
Utilise energy management methods to work in productive hours of peak performance
Implement real strategies to handle competing deadlines and stakeholder demands
Exhibit self assured communication skills in capacity and sustainable time negotiation
What You Will Learn
MODULE 1: The Psychology Of Your Time Reality
Doing an honest audit of where your time actually goes versus where you think it goes
Finding your own rhythms and energy troughs
Understanding the need for urgency and importance
Module 2: How to Set Strategic Priorities
Useful frameworks for determining what to focus on first
Approaches for balancing conflicting interests amongst various actors
How to make a decision in 3 seconds (to know what's important)
Module 3: Keeping Your Focus in a Distracted World
How to avoid interruptions without being unapproachable
How to make "Protected Focus Blocks" that actually stick
Coping with that never ending ping of emails, messages and notifications
Module 4: Professional Boundaries that Will Set You Free
How to Just Say No (to Save Your Sanity and Time) With Emphasis on Loving Relationships and Friendships
Approaches to pushing back on unrealistic deadlines
Establishing expectations that prevent the crunch at the last minute
Chapter 5: Energy Management Versus Time Management
Pairing the toughest tasks with your highest energy times
Methods to keep the enthusiasm going during the day
Scheduling in stress management recovery time that actually serves to refresh rather than exhaust
Module 6: Systems That Bend With Reality
Weekly planning techniques that factor in surprises
Methods for Task Batching to Reduce Task Switching Costs
Having contingency plans for when your original plan goes off the rails
Module 7: Communicating for Time Success
Speaking openly about workload capacity
Working together as a team to meet deadlines
Time chaos averted through stakeholder management.
Delivery Format
This live workshop is a mix of hands on activities, small group work, and self reflection. This serves Participants with actual daily situations from their work environment enabling to apply all techniques directly.
Length: 7 hours a full day of intensive work with breaks.
Location: Geelong
Max group size: 16 (limited to ensure you have personal attention)
Course Materials Included
Workbook tools and templates.
Digital pack with quick reference guides
30 day plan to put the tools and tips into action, weekly prompts for checks ins
Access to additional online resources and templates
Summary
This class is not about theory alone, you'll receive real life tools you will be able to use right away and start taking control of your workday! You'll walk out with a customised action plan, easy to use tools, and the confidence to bring about changes that will positively transform your day to day experience at work.
Perfection isn't the target, it is progress that is sustainable. So we're sharing that support with you now, by offering a small piece of it every evening here on the Smarter Living page, where, every weekday, we'll develop a plan to help you end each day feeling satisfied, not overwhelmed, and, if we're lucky and we work hard, make it home on time (both mentally and physically) more often than not. Because better time management isn't just about being productive, it's about creating space for the work that matters and the life you want to live outside the office.
Time management development is an investment in your personal effectiveness, which will pay dividends forever.