Time management

Time is a valuable commodity which is becoming increasingly scarce. ‘If only there were more hours in one day’ and “Where will I find the time’ are typical daily utterances. Reading through documents during lunch, reading through the items on tomorrow’s agenda while your on the phone – they are skills that we apply with ease daily.

However, when we are under pressure stress comes into play and our feelings can take a turn for the worse. We become annoyed with everything that tries to claim a minute of your time. Take for instance the aggression you can feel when your computer crashes!

Do you want to get a better overview of how you use your time and do you no longer want to be controlled by your diary? In the time management training, we deal with making priorities, dealing with time-consuming activities, but we also look critically at how you procrastinate, draw boundaries and delegate.

For whom?

Teams, executives, managers, project leaders and employees who constantly feel they do not have enough time, always have to rush, and want to use their time more efficiently.

The training

• Taking stock of problems and causes
• What does a perfect day at work look like to you?
• The daily battle, learning about the Eisenhower schedule, in which a distinction is made between urgent and non-urgent matters. We divide up the time and make a plan for long, medium long and short term jobs, with a priority rating.
  This is done by using questions such as:
  Does this really have to be done now, is it really urgent?
  • Why do I have to do it, am I the right person to do this?
  • Why are we doing it this way?
  • Why are we doing this at all?
• An analysis of your work habits and methods; you will receive guidelines to improve the planning of your work
• Time consumers
  Analyzing and discussing time consumers. Examples: Colleagues who come walking in, or visitors, (e-)mail, meetings, phone and fax, but also your own behaviour such as procrastinating, (lack of) discipline, ‘before I start I just have to do this or that’, etc.
• Drawing boundaries; what is assertiveness and what does it yield in relation to time management?
• Personal action plan: by means of the SMART-approach you will draw up a personal action plan in which personal goals are listed, in order to put what you have learnt into practice.

Information

Of course, for further information or any queries you might have, you can contact us at our office in Rijswijk in The Netherlands, phone +31 (0)70 3623617, or send an e-mail info@houthoffgroup.com