Time Management Basics

Objectives: At the end of this course, participants will:

• Understand the principles of time management

• Gain insight into personal style and how it affects use of time

• Apply time management theory to a personal action program for use back on the job

Who should attend: All employees needing to improve time management, especially valuable when team members can all attend.

Underlying Ideas:

• Manage activities, not time.

• Use of time is a habit. To change it, we need practice and reinforcement. After we identify your major time wasters, you must pick a partner back on the job who can remind you and help you keep track of new habits.

• We will start with conventional wisdom and rules, then we will consider when and how to break these rules.

Topics:

Part I - Rules of the Game/Common Pitfall/Things to Avoid

Part II - Applying the Rules/An In-Basket Exercise

Part III - Management Style

• What your preferences around getting things done?

• We’ll discuss work patterns based upon your preferred way of giving and receiving information. This will be examined in both the external, formal systems and the internal, cognitive systems.

• Using the three instruments filled out in pre-work.

• To heighten awareness of your daily habits.

• To provide a basis of analysis for the group to share their solutions to managing time on the job