Time Management training

'From chaos to control: learn how to balance tasks and priorities to get more of the right things done'

Do your people ever complain they have too much to do in too little time? Do they sometimes lie awake at night thinking about all the things they have to do next day?

Are you looking for ways to help your team work smarter, not harder, so they can achieve more with less stress, and more fun.

Brainpower Training works inside companies and organisations with groups of their staff, usually in a Facilitator-led one-day or half-day workshop of around 10-16 people at a time, to develop their ability to manage workplace priorities.

Consider this: the super-successful have no more time available to them than anyone else, yet they appear to get more done in less time. That's because they've mastered the habits and tools of successful time management.

They've installed systems in their lives to...

• track all their 'To-dos'
• stay focused on the next most important thing to do
• focus on high-value tasks ahead of low-value tasks
• balance their workload with less stress
• get more done with more fun

Now your team can master the time management secrets of the super-successful.

'Introducing Brainpower Time Management training'

Brainpower Time Management training is a program for teams who want to master successful time management.

They'll learn practical strategies they can use immediately to increase their productivity and reduce stress. Click here enquire now.

'Maximise your potential and
make more out of your day'

Here are some of the things your team will learn in the Brainpower Time Management workshop:

Program content

• Overchoice - the overwhelming number of options available to fill our time
• How to confidently handle competing priorities under pressure
• Various ways to identify the next most important thing to do
• The art of stress-free productivity and putting first things first
• Tools (paper-based or digital): To-do list, diary, daybook
• 22 ways to manage meetings
• Microsoft Outlook tips exchange – are you using Outlook to its full Potential, for appointments, tasks, meetings, reminders?
• Important vs. urgent
• Managing paper
• Managing interruptions
• Telephone escape clauses
• Embrace delegation as part of your job
• Do it faster – adequate vs. perfect
• The power of focus on the task at hand
• Achieve more by doing less and applying the 80/20 rule
• Overcome feelings of being overwhelmed, ‘mind churn’
• Work / life balance - making time for fitness, wellness, family, friends and fun
• Positive language

Return on investment - Time Management ROI

Just Imagine . . . If you train 10 people in Time Management, they may each work at least 10% more efficiently. You could save one full-time position, costing perhaps $50,000 per year.

Time Management outcomes

On completion of the program participants will be able to:

• Apply various methods to decide between competing priorities
• Gain clarity about the next most important thing to do
• Have systems to handle to-dos, appointments, file notes and meetings
• Write everything down and use systems so the mind can relax
• Understand the difference between a project and an action-step
• Eliminate procrastination by describing to-dos in action steps
• Appreciate the difference between important and urgent items
• Create a reliable ‘bring forward’ filing system for time-specific documents
• Manage interruptions
• Shorten a phone call, while remaining courteous
• Analyse workflow and identify if holding onto a task creates a bottleneck
• Feel okay about what cannot get done in a day, or delegate
• View delegating as an investment in developing staff
• Set time-limits on activities
• Do all of one type of activity in time blocks e.g. all phone calls, all e-mails
• Avoid ‘grasshopper behaviour’ – jumping form task to task.
• Concentrate effort on top 20% of priorities which yield an 80% result
• Identify the one thing they are not doing now, that if they did do, would enhance their sense of happiness, achievement, contribution, and health and fitness
• Understand the impact of negative and positive self-talk

By understanding each of these areas, they'll easily get more done in less time. Click here to contact us.

 
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Read an article by Nina Sunday . . .

Time Management: Tim Toady –

There is More Than One Way To Do It

Do you know what’s tricky about communication? For the same set of instructions there can be more than one way to interpret, and you can end up with different results.

It can be hard to know if your instructions are 100% clear or unambiguous, until you get . . . feedback.

Can you think of a time you’ve given someone instructions and they go off and do something quite different? Is it their fault?

As the one communicating, perhaps it’s your responsibility to remember to check understanding?

One way to confirm someone understands is to take 30 seconds, ask them to summarise in their own words what the task is and how they plan to get it done.

I know of one organisation with signs around their office - Take 30 seconds’ –
as a reminder to take time to check understanding.

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When delegating a task what else might we consider?

Perhaps ‘there’s more than one way to do it’? Allowing people the freedom to decide HOW a job is to be done is a good thing. They might even streamline the process with a useful shortcut.

TIMTOWTDI (pronounced 'Tim Toady') is an acronym from Perl, a computer programming language, for: There Is More Than One Way To Do It.

Rather than micromanage, give people responsibility for the entire task, from go to whoa.

They might surprise you with an elegant solution you never considered.

 

Copyright Nina Sunday 2009. All rights reserved. Published in Sydney, Australia.

 

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Does Brainpower offer public workshops for individuals to attend?

We do not schedule external workshops for individuals to attend.

Brainpower Training works inside companies and organisations with groups of their staff, usually in a workshop of around 10-16 people at a time.

Instead perhaps consider our training DVDs . . . more info

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The Brainpower difference: How we present

We use brain-based, multi-sensory, Adult Learning methods to keep the workshop interactive, engaging and fun.  

Appealing to all learning styles, there'll be:    

• flipcharts created and coloured pens to use for Visual learners
• background music in the breaks for Auditory learners
• for Kinesthetic learners, as well as plasticene and pipe cleaners, brain-shaped squeeze balls with Brainpower logo to take-away.

Our facilitator adapts and
customises the presentation to suit the
specific needs of your team by

• asking quality questions
• triggering discussion
• referring to your organisation-specific scenarios
• discovering insights beyond the obvious
  

Open-ended exercises help people discover for themselves what you want them to know.

'Does the training include
any additional materials?'

Yes. Everyone receives a reader-friendly, illustrated and colour-printed workbook to refer to during and after the course.

Your people are also presented with a Certificate of Achievement for successfully completing the course.

What people say

'Very good presentation - interactive. Great practical ideas to take away.'

Adam Woods, Process Manager, AstraZeneca

'What I wanted and expected - specific 'how to' steps.'

David West, Solicitor

'Very well presented, easy to take in, not boring, fun and informative.'

Stephen Tole, Bank Officer, BNP Paribas

No risk guarantee

You have peace of mind knowing you are not only getting great value for money, but also results that positively impact performance.

Our guarantee is simply this:

If you are not 100% happy and delighted with your workshop, we will either refund the difference between what you paid to what you think it was worth or we'll continue to work with you for free until you achieve the outcomes you reasonably expected.

Call us on 1300 661 555. Our Support Team are happy to answer any questions you may have and walk you through your options.

Any Questions?

You'll find the answers to most of your questions on the Frequently asked questions page.

If you can't find what you're looking for, please contact us and our Support Team will respond to your enquiry with priority.

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