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Free Time Management course

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The first three chapters online, with a knowledge check after each chapter. Plus a PDF with a worksheet and cheat sheet.

You can read the lessons straight away. For the PDF, you leave your details.

Start with lesson 1

Prefer to have a trainer there with you?

The two-day Time Management course. You put your own diary and task list on the table and agree what you will do differently from tomorrow onwards.

€1250,- excl. VAT

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Plenty of people would happily see the day last a bit longer. The stack never gets any smaller, the inbox dictates the morning, and at the end of the day that one important job has once again come to nothing. Yet everyone has the same number of hours. Time management is not about getting more of them, but about consciously choosing where they go.

This free online course is the starter for our full Time management. In the first three chapters you find out where your time actually goes and what type of time handler you are, learn the difference between efficient and effective with the ABC analysis, and set priorities with the Eisenhower model. Each chapter ends with a short knowledge check, so you notice straight away whether it sticks.

The full course goes on to cover other ways of setting priorities, planning with the ALPEN method, setting goals with SMART, getting your mailbox and workspace in order, setting boundaries and saying no, delegating, procrastination, stress and the RET method, and a personal action plan. Would you like to work through those chapters with an experienced trainer, and with your own diary on the table? Then take a look at the Time Management course.

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Chapters 1 to 3 in a single PDF, with a worksheet and cheat sheet.

Contents:

  • 0.-

    Introduction
    How this free course is structured and what you will learn in the three chapters.

  • 1.-

    Where your time goes
    Time management as self-management, the six biggest time wasters and the five types who get in their own way.

  • 2.-

    Efficient versus effective
    The difference between doing the work well and doing the right work, and the ABC analysis of your task list.

  • 3.-

    Setting priorities with the Eisenhower model
    Important versus urgent, the four quadrants and what to do with a task in each quadrant.

  • 4.-

    Other methods for setting priorities
    The zoom-out method, the Ivy Lee method, the two-minute rule, timeboxing and the weekly review.

  • 5.-

    Planning and the ALPEN method
    Fixed and variable tasks, buffer time according to the sixty per cent rule and planning around your own energy rhythm.

  • 6.-

    Setting goals with SMART
    Direction instead of busyness, the SMART model and formulating your own goal clearly.

  • 7.-

    Get organised: structure in your working day
    Managing the flows, your mailbox as a transit point and the layout of your desk and workspace.

  • 8.-

    Assertiveness and setting boundaries
    Three response styles, why assertiveness saves time and saying no in practice.

  • 9.-

    Delegating: the art of handing over
    Why delegating pays off, the six steps of effective delegation and practising with your own situations.

  • 10.-

    Dealing with procrastination
    The procrastination circle, five strategies for taking action and tackling your own pattern of putting things off.

  • 11.-

    Stress management and the RET method
    Understanding stress, challenging your own thoughts with RET, and working on energy and relaxation.

  • 12.-

    Personal action plan and embedding
    From insight to action: your own agreements on paper and a way to keep to them.

The trainers who deliver this course

That is the difference with a pdf: there is someone standing in front of the class who answers your questions and thinks along with your own situation.

Saar Trainer in team coaching and communication 9,0 from 459 evaluations Rob Trainer in communication and leadership 8,6 from 346 evaluations Michaela Trainer communication and personal development 9,1 from 264 evaluations Christy trainer in communication and leadership 9,2 from 256 evaluations

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