Effective Time Management

This is where we introduce you to the topics covered in the course, including assessing your current stress levels, understanding how using your time more effectively combats stress and how you can make the most of this course.

This module will show you how to discover what you find stressful, including physical and emotional factors. Then you’ll look at different techniques for staying calm, such as mental and physical exercise.

Next, we look at where time can be lost. You learn how to create a time diary to help identify how your time is wasted. Then you are shown how to put a value on time, what barriers may stop you acting and how to analyse expectation.

Now that you know how and why your time is so limited, we move on to showing you how to get organised. You learn about filing systems, diaries and wall planners, goal setting, planning and delegation as well as looking at the principle of ‘me time’.

In this module you learn about clear desk policies, keeping meetings short and constructive and making effective use of the telephone. Plus, we look at emails, social media and other distractions and interruptions you may encounter.

Now we move on to what you do about demands on your time and what the implications are of you saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the demands of others. You learn assertion techniques, confidence building strategies and how to be proactive, rather than reactive.

The final module covers your future goals and how to achieve them. You also look at managing your personal finances, making the most of the software available to you and avoid spending more than you earn. You’ll learn how to de-clutter your life and set up personal filing systems. Having fun is an important part of life, so we’ll show you how to have time for that too.