Time Management Courses
Intensive 1 Day Time Management Course
Get a clear understanding of how to manage of your time more effectively.
- How you currently spend your time
- Managing Urgent vs Important
- Managing distractions
- Practical realistic planning
- Diary management & delegation
Master all aspects of time management in detail on this course.
- Why do people struggle?
- 4D's - Do, Defer, Delegate, Delete
- Learning to say 'No'
- Motivation & chunking tasks
- Creating a Personal Action Plan
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.
Your Time Management Trainer
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.
She has helped hundreds of people develop effective time management skills that work for their industry, role and personality type.
Trainer was very informative,and let conversations on people experiences flow, bringing the course content all together. The booklet with information and further books to help was very good. Would highly recommend. I would see what other courses are available too.
Georgia Day, EA to COO and Head of GBDJo was really approachable and loved the fact that I was the only one booked in today, so I got the most out of it!
Emily Hodge, League Against Cruel Sports Senior HR Office & PA to the Chief OfficersVery relevant course and I really enjoyed it. I found it very useful with good tips and advice. Jo was lovely, very approachable and knowledgable.
Niki Rivers, Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey PA to the Police & Crime CommissionerThe course gave me ideas/tips on how to run a meeting and how to approach lead person to help. Found course very useful.
Sonia Ellis, Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Team LeaderSpeaking 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.
Lisa Whaley, Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Office CoordinatorI 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.
Vicki CleaverDiscussing issues with other members of staff. Finding solutions on how to take useful points of meetings.
Janet HillVery well structured & delivered course; content was well organised & all encompassing.
Vicky – Lee WilliamsonThe 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.
Jose DiressenThe whole course was good.
Cynthia Van RheenenGuildford & London Training Course Locations
St Clements House, 27 Clements Lane
London, EC4N 7AE
Tel: 0203 603 0150
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Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road
Guildford, GU2 7YG
Tel: 01483 688 488
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Time Management Course FAQs
If you have any questions about our time management training courses, please get in touch.
Our online training is designed to re-create the open course classroom experience as closely as possible.
It is a live training session using Zoom or Teams and the trainer is there throughout.
The training is still hands-on and interactive. You will be discussing things with the trainer as you would normally.
We encourage everyone to ask questions as you go along.
You can ask questions verbally, raise your hand, as you would in a physical classroom, or send the trainer a chat message.
This makes sure that no-one in the class is left behind as new time management concepts are introduced.
Please come to your time management training course wearing whatever you are most comfortable in.
We do not have a dress code for our in person courses.
Most people come wearing casual clothes.
Yes and yes!
We provide everyone who completes one of our time management courses with a formal certificate.
Our one day time management workshop is CPD-accredited.
Yes, it will help in two ways.
Firstly, we know that this is something that lots of people struggle with.
Because this is a time management issue that lots of people have, our course has a section devoted to this problem.
Secondly, many people find that once they’re really clear on their priorities, it’s much easier to say ‘No’.
Previously, they weren’t sure how important a task was and so would say ‘Yes’ by default.
Once they’re clear on the cost of saying ‘Yes’ in terms of lost time, they find saying ‘No’ comes much more easily.
Managing your time effectively flows naturally from having real clarity on what your professional priorities are.
We do not run any public courses focused on email.
We cover managing email as part of our one day course.
We do run private one day workshops that are focused on managing email.
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.
Yes. Time management is a learned skill and a key part of everyone’s personal development. No-one is born knowing how to manage their time.
There are a number of tried and tested time management techniques, like the Eisenhower matrix and the Pomodoro technique, which anyone can use to improve their productivity.
They offer a way to improve on using a traditional to do list which can leave you feeling overwhelmed.
Time Management Techniques
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 whoever is running the meeting for an agenda in advance. This will encourage them to think about the purpose of the meeting in advance.
- 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.
Yes, this is foundational to our approach to time management.
We feel that this is an incredibly useful tool and central to getting really clear on where you should be spending your time.
This analysis forms the basis for improving your time management skills.
With clarity on your most impactful, important tasks you can create a plan to allow you to spend more time on them.
Many people find this framework very useful more broadly across their careers.
It can also be used for project management and managing time effectively for a team.
Time is your most precious resource.
Learning effective time management skills will improve your goal setting, improve your productivity and improve your career opportunities.
You will become someone who is known for meeting deadlines and completing tasks in a timely manner.
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 where you should delegate tasks and to improve productivity by focusing on your most important tasks.
Of course, the Pareto principle can be applied more broadly than just to time management.