Time Management : Make it a Habit

(One-day workshop)

Uses the Inscape Publishing Time Mastery Profile

Chris Pohlkamp - Workshop Leader

A three-day time log is sent out prior to workshop and should be brought to the workshop completed.  15% of the day is spent analyzing the participants own work habits around the topics listed below.

YOU WILL LEARN TO:

• Identify habits that are key to good time management
• Change your thinking about time
• Identify which habits are most critical to your job

COURSE OUTLINE

Where are you now, where do you want to be?

• Identify what habits you want to change
• Steps to begin a new behaviour, it takes 7- 21 times of a repeated process to change a behaviour

Attitudes

• Creating a positive climate-what you think is critical
• Self-discipline – the difference between knowing what to do and doing it
• Saying NO, without compromising relationships

Goals

• Developing SMART goals
• Taking those goals and planning your day around them
• Balancing work and home goals and priorities

Priorities

• Identifying important vs. urgent items for daily tasks
• Determining where important and urgent viewpoints conflict with others opinions and determining how to deal with that

Analyzing

• Identifying time problems by doing a three-day time log
• Keeping a time log back at work and questions to ask when analyzing your days
• How to continually track your time including interruptions

Planning and Scheduling the Day

• Determining what to do on a daily and weekly basis using the goals as a focus
• Allowing for flexibility in your planning
• How to schedule uninterrupted time
• Determining your energy cycle to plan your day

This is a highly-interactive workshop using a three-day time log and The Inscape Publishing Time Mastery Profile (Cost of $24 per participant). Sixty per cent of the day is spent analysing the participants’ own work habits and assisting them in developing personalized action plans to increase productivity and balance.