Self-management in time

Why take this course

Do you feel like you constantly lack time and have difficulty organizing your work? This training will help you identify the strengths and development areas of your work style and teach you how to organize tasks by priority. You will gain skills in performing under time pressure, setting realistic goals, and effectively delegating tasks. As a result, you will start working more efficiently, unlocking your full potential.

What you'll learn

• To develop your strengths in time management.
• To unlock your organizational and creative potential.
• To organize tasks considering their priorities and importance.
• To react and make decisions under time pressure.
• To cope with situations of a lack of internal motivation.
• To precisely define goals.
• To delegate tasks.
• To apply knowledge of Management by Objectives (MBO).

Course 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

Certificate and exam

Upon completion of the training, you will receive a personalized certificate confirming the skills you have acquired in self-management. There is no final exam; active participation in the classes is required.

For whom

This course is for people who:

• Manage teams.
• Want to increase their daily efficiency through better time management.
• Have a feeling of constantly running out of time.
• Want to develop their work organization skills.