Effective Time Management is one of the key challenges facing most managers/supervisors in the Western World.

 

So often there are 'people issues' going off below while the streams of paperwork from on high and the immediate line manager's demands seem to shower down endlessly. And what about when peers try to offload some of their work on to you?

 

It might seem like someone's 'having a laugh' when there's talk of achieving 'Work-Life Balance' but the average hours worked in Western Europe and North America just seem to get longer and longer....

 

For nearly 50 years 'management gurus' have been coming up with ways of working smarter, rather than harder. We've had phases focussing on personal organisation (which gave birth first to the Filofax and then to personal organiser software like Microsoft Outlook. We've had phases of upskilling management competences, with an emphasis on delegation and getting more out of staff. And more recently there's been a growing focus on improving personal resourcefulness.

 

Each phase has promised to make the harassed manager's life that much easier and yet has only partially done so. What's needed is something that brings together all the different emphases in a new way and integrates them with the latest thinking on effective management.

 

Which is exactly what this workshop does!

 

                                                                            Time Management - the Integrated SocioPsychology Course
The core components are:-

• Don't stress - deal with it!
  The feeling that your workload is overwhelming you can cause real stress, with a detrimental effect on your own effectiveness and a devastating effect on relationships (both personal and work). And some personalities react to stress much more severely than others.
  This component briefly overviews the nature of stress and how you can make stress work for you. We then move on to look at some easy-to-learn stress management tools.

 

• Back to the Filofax - Organise Yourself!
  Self-organising tools have moved on quite a bit - but the Filofax principles are still with us quite simply because they are so effective in their domain.
  This component not only revisits the basics of self-organising but also draws upon the work of Stephen Covey to provide some advanced tools for deciding just what tasks you really need to do today and what you might just be able to leave until next week.

 

• The Science of Delegation - Organise Others!
  It's often said that the first rule of management is delegation. But delegation is both about process and the people involved in the act of delegation - those who will manage it and those who will carry out the activities.
  This component provides practical guidelines on the process of delegation but also takes into account the sociopsychology of the manager and those to whom work is being delegated. These are vital yet often overlooked factors because they affect what can be delegated in what way to whom. The process is not static but dynamic, dependent on these factors.

 

• The Art of saying 'No' to the Boss…
  Not easily done but necessary. If the first rule of management is to delegate, then what else should you expect your boss do but task you…? All too often people simply accept the additional burdens and suffer consequently; occasionally people do challenge the boss but often come across as over-aggressive due to nerves.
  This component provides practical tools for discussing deadlines in a constructive, collaborative manner and even for discussing the appropriateness of the tasking. A key element here is knowing both yourself and the boss - and deducing from that what the most appropriate methods are.
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This highly-interactive workshop in its basic form is a 1-day event suitable for both in-house presentation or Chambers of Commerce-type training events. It can be customised to last over 2 or 3 days, enabling participants to look at certain aspects in greater depth.

 

Contact me now to find out more!