Self-management in time

Course objectives

• Constructive attitude and professional increasing the level of knowledge of the personal style of work.
• Getting to know weaknesses and strengths of one’s own work style.
• Learning how to arrange tasks while taking into account their priorities and importance.
• Learning how to respond and make decisions under time pressure

Benefits

• Identification and development of one’s own strengths and weaknesses
• Perception of one’s own organisational and creative potential
• Getting to know metal barriers.
• Development of the skill of dealing in situations of lack of internal motivation
• Development of ability to set real objectives
• Realisation of the benefits resulting from the differentiation of priority tasks
• Development of the ability to plan one’s own work
• Acquiring the skill of delegating tasks
• Acquiring the skill of precise defining of objectives
• Acquiring knowledge of management by objectives

Training scope

• Assessment of one’s own ability to use time
  • Diagnosis of one’s own style of work
  • Strengths and weaknesses of self-management in time
  • Profits of self-management in time
• Inventory of managing one’s own time
  • Mistakes in time management
  • Preventing thieves of time
  • Proactive versus reactive approach
• Work organisation
• Criteria of defining priorities – Eisenhower’s principle
  • Techniques of dealing with change in task priorities
  • Main principles of good work organisation according to Covey
  • Stream of tasks according to GDT methodology by David Allen
• Main planning principles
• Pareto principle
  • 60/40 rule
  • Parkinson’s law
  • Hofstadter’s law
  • ALPEN method
• Effective time management in a team
  • Importance of task delegation for effective time management
  • Identification of tasks that are worth being delegated
  • Division of obligations and delegating them
• Time management by setting objectives
  • SMART method
  • PURE method
  • MBO in team management

Audience

The training is addressed to persons whose skills in time management affect the effectiveness of their actions, persons who organise their own work on their own, who have the sense of permanent lack of time and for persons with difficulties in proper time organisation.