Time Management Courses London
1:1 Help & Advice: Our trainers have time to discuss the challenges you face.
Real-Life Tactics: Learn stress tested methods you’ll use the next day.
Practical: Learn to reset and refocus when things don’t go to plan.
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Our Time Management Courses
Get a clear understanding of how to manage of your time more effectively.
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How you currently spend your time
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Managing Urgent vs Important
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Managing distractions
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Practical realistic planning
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Diary management & delegation
- Clarify what’s important to you and how that drives how you use your time
- Spot your personal time-stealers
- Why we procrastinate (and how to stop)
- Prioritising smartly with the Eisenhower Matrix
- Simple tools to help you stay on track (and stay sane)
- The 4 D’s of time management: Do, Defer, Delegate, Delete
- Spotting and sidestepping distractions
- How to handle “time vampires” who suck up your hours
- Keep promises and hitting deadlines
- Saying “no” confidently and clearly
- Staying calm when plans go out the window
- Matching your energy to your task list
- Why delegation is a superpower
- What to delegate – and what to keep
- Who to delegate to and how to do it right
- Avoiding Micromanagement
- Plan for the next month – and the next year
- Identify what you really want more time for
- Build habits that support your bigger goals
Complete 2 Day Time Management Course
Intermediate
Included
- CPD certificate
- 6 months' post-course support
- Money-back guarantee
Master all aspects of time management in detail on this course.
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Why do people struggle?
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4D's - Do, Defer, Delegate, Delete
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Learning to say 'No'
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Motivation & chunking tasks
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Creating a Personal Action Plan
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Over the two days of this course, you will have the opportunity to explore in-depth how you use your time currently, how to make better use of your time and to investigate and apply what you’ve learned to produce a detailed plan for you to implement when you return to work.
There is lots of time to consider how the various techniques might work for you, and in your work environment, and to also share ideas with other participants as well as learning from your experienced trainer.
Please click on the sections below to see more detail about this course. Please note that the exact format of the course will be customised in order to focus on delegates’ biggest time management stumbling blocks.
The first day of this course focuses on understanding everyone’s particular problems and how these problems can be systematically addressed.
- The paradox – we cannot manage time so what do we need to manage
- Compare a typical week with an ideal week
- Your values and their impact on your time
- Why is it that we “lose” time, what are our time vampires and how can we deal with them?
- Prioritising and other task management techniques (including the Eisenhower matrix) and focusing on the important before it becomes urgent
- The 4 D’s (Do, Defer, Delete, Delegate) and how to delegate effectively
- Overcoming procrastination and other self-defeating behaviours
- Understanding and working with your natural energy levels to achieve results
- Reducing meeting time and making your meetings more productive
Day 2 of this course is where ‘the rubber hits the road’.
Having looked at the theory of prioritisation on day 1, we start day 2 by looking at how this can be put into practice. This includes role-playing in practical scenarios to practise using those techniques.
We then look at dealing with other people and how to manage them so that you can deliver your best work.
We finish Day 2 with a review and also create individual action plans looking at how you will implement what you have learned on your return to work.
Key topics covered include:
- Managing the expectations of others and increasing your confidence in dealing with them
- Discussing your workload and priorities with your manager.
- Evaluating how much work you truly have to do and how to discuss this with your manager
- Saying no (or not yet…)
- Giving yourself the time to consider the implications of requests for additions to your workload before committing yourself
- Discussing your workload and priorities with your manager.
- Hints and tips for planning and getting more out of your day
- Setting goals and objectives, and a plan to achieve them
- Breaking down tasks to make them more manageable
- Keeping track of your tasks and your progress – The value of lists
- Maintaining your motivation
- Taking time to reflect, recharge and refocus
- Why breaks and changes in focus can cause you to be more productive
- Producing your action plan
- Concrete steps that you can implement straight away when you get back to work to get the maximum benefit from what you’ve learned
Private Time Management Workshops
Any level
Included
- CPD certificate
- 6 months' post-course support
- Money-back guarantee
We also offer private time management workshops for individuals and groups.
This allows us to create a customised course, designed for you and / or your organisation.
These can be run at your offices, one of our training centres or online.
Please contact us for more details.
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Time Management Training FAQ
If you have any questions about our courses, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
For General FAQs and Booking questions, see our FAQ Page.
Jo - Time Management Trainer
Jo is one of our regular time management trainers and has been a professional development coach for over 20 years. A CIPD member, she covers topics including the Urgent vs Important framework, managing distractions, practical diary management, delegation, and building a realistic personal action plan.
Jo’s courses focus on 1:1 help and advice so that you can apply what you learn as soon as you leave the course.
To manage time effectively, you need to be clear on what your goals and aims are.
When you are clear on your objectives, deciding which tasks to prioritise prioritising tasks and delegating tasks becomes much simpler.
Really time management and productivity are synonymous.
If you are making good use of your time (in achieving your objectives) then you are being productive.
The 4 Ds of time management are:
- Do
- Defer / Delay
- Delegate
- Delete / Drop
These are the four ‘buckets’ that you should allocate tasks to and a great way to quickly and effectively manage numerous daily tasks.
Meetings are a fact of professional life.
When done well, they are very effective ways of updating a group of people, discussing their opinions and reaching a consensus and communicating a decision.
Sadly, most meetings are poorly run. They are inefficient and inconclusive.
Assuming that the meetings you are being invited to are poorly run, a few good tips would be:
- Remember that just because you are invited to a meeting, you don’t need to attend. Do not automatically accept meeting requests. Stop and think about whether it will be a good use of time or if there is some other way of participating (sending in an email update) that would be more efficient.
- Ask for a meeting agenda in advance. This will encourage the person running the course to plan it properly.
- Before the meeting, explain that you have to leave at a certain time. This means that you can leave without appearing rude, and will discourage time-wasting.
The Eisenhower matrix is a visual way to categorise a list of tasks by importance and urgency.
This analysis forms the basis for improving your time management, as it gives you clarity on what your most impactful and important tasks are.
Once you know that, you can create a plan to allow you to spend more time on them.
For full details, see the article we have written explaining the Eisenhower matrix in full.
The Pareto principle is also known as the 80:20 rule.
In short, it says that a few things are very important, and most things are not important.
The key is to focus on the important few.
Applying the Pareto principle is a quick way to manage to-do lists, decide which tasks to delegate, and improve productivity by focusing on your critical tasks.
Of course, the Pareto principle can be applied more broadly than just to time management.
For full details, see the article that we have written on the Pareto principle here.
Jo is our usual trainer for time management training courses.
She has over 20 years of experience teaching time management strategies, project management and delegation.
In the video below, she explains more about her background and courses.
Where Do Your Courses Run?
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London, WC2A 1AP
Tel: 0203 603 0150
Our City of London training centre sits in Holborn, one of central London’s most accessible locations. From the West End, Paddington, Liverpool Street or Canary Wharf – you’re rarely more than 20 minutes away.
See the full London location details here.
Online Courses
We run a full schedule of remote courses over Zoom.
We also deliver private courses over Teams, if requested.
What Do Previous Delegates Say
Georgia Day, EA to COO and Head of GBD
Trainer was very informative,and let discussion flow, bringing the training course content together. The minute taking booklet with information and further books to help was very good. Would highly recommend.
Emily Hodge, League Against Cruel Sports Senior HR Office & PA to the Chief Officers
Jo was really approachable and loved the fact that I was the only one booked in today, so I got the most out of it!
Niki Rivers, Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey PA to the Police & Crime Commissioner
Very relevant course and I really enjoyed it. I found it very useful with good tips and advice. Jo was lovely, very approachable and knowledgable.
Sonia Ellis, Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Team Leader
The course gave me ideas/tips on how to run a meeting and how to approach lead person to help. Found course very useful.
Lisa Whaley, Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Office Coordinator
Speaking with others on the same boat helped. Not too intimadating - able to ask questions without looking stupid and if I didn't understand - it was explained to me, so I could share experience ideas.
Vicki Cleaver
I found the course excellent. Being 1:1 I was able to explain my role and situation and spent time going over objectives for the day.
Janet Hill
Discussing issues with other members of staff. Finding solutions on how to take useful points of meetings.
Vicky – Lee Williamson
Very well structured & delivered course; content was well organised & all encompassing.
Jose Diressen
The explanation and discussion with the trainer was good. it was very clear ad interesting the way the trainer trained us, The psychological items for example - how to identify different kind of people.
Cynthia Van Rheenen
The whole course was good.
Donna Trout
Having a small group gave time to discuss subjects and compare.
Peter Esterhuizen, The Meath Epilepsy Charity Assistant Director and Registered Manager Residential Services
Learnt a few new tactics that I can implement to ensure I have more time to complete my work.
Paul Cronin, Synthomer (UK) Limited
Explained a number of useful help tips with time management but more importantly explained the downside of getting it wrong.
Dolapo Sangowusi
Exposure into how to start a difficult conversation (thanks). Time management techniques and ways of communicating with colleagues. How to judge my performance & time spent on tasks, motivation & time helped me.
Gill Salmon
Learning how to deal with time bandits; practical exercises was helpful.
Nikki Raine
Identifying time bandits & ways to eliminate/minimise their effects; how to deal with stress/stressful situations more effectively.
Sara Orpen
I enjoyed all of the course, I have been very fortunate to have participated on a 1:1 basis and have gained very good knowledge on time management which was tailored expertly to my needs. The visual aids helped me enormously, especially the unexpected "stress ball".
Karen Winter
Learning different techniques in managing time and thinking through ways to apply to both home and work life.
Tom Russell
The paper towel challenge, which proved how time pressure affects your ability to think carefully about a task was a good tip.
Sophie Evers
Lots of different aspects explained which I was not expecting from a time management course e.g. stress.
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Letting us know before the course which areas you would like to focus on is very helpful.
It allows us to focus time on the areas where you would like 1:1 help and advice most.
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