Time management for managers: gaining productivity
Context and rationale
In the age of new technologies, managers must show unfailing discipline so as not to be overwhelmed by the many requests from clients, staff or superiors. To guarantee the performance of their team or department, they must manage their time capital, devote time to their team and stay focused on high added-value tasks.
This time management course is for anyone facing a heavy workload that is a source of stress, the unexpected or urgency (fast pace, positions of high responsibility, etc.) and who must constantly reorganise their work or handle a large number of requests. It is particularly recommended for managers, executives and directors, both for themselves and to pass on the keys and good practices of time management within their teams.
Training objectives
- Identifying your priorities to refocus on your role as a manager.
- Using your time according to your priorities and those of your team.
- Optimising your management time to strengthen the team's autonomy and delegate effectively.
- Setting up a strategy so that time no longer controls you.
- Analysing and planning the different tasks for yourself and your team.
Training content
Analysing the professional context to make better use of your time
- Understanding your relationship with time and analysing the relationship with time in your company.
- Analysing your tasks and their consequences on your personal organisation.
- Becoming aware of your time management behaviours.
Mastering the art of effective personal organisation
- Analysing your schedule: keeping a detailed record of your time; spotting time wasted and drift; drawing up your organisation matrix.
- Identifying the classic pitfalls of time management and practising spotting your own personal time gremlins.
- Organising your schedule in a realistic and balanced way using the 6 levers of time management: priorities, choices, planning, energy, focus, relationships.
- Applying the "LIMITER" method to do what is essential each day during periods of work overload.
- Dealing with urgent and unexpected matters with discernment.
Optimising your team management time and solving a manager's time issues
- Adopting the golden rules of time management.
- Applying planning techniques: the tools of time management.
- Defining priorities and translating them into action plans.
- Distinguishing urgent tasks from important tasks.
- Determining what steals your time.
- Delegating effectively for yourself and for your staff.
- Managing your availability to the team and others without giving up your personal concentration.
- Optimising time for strategic thinking and in-depth work to produce a creative, quality result with less effort.
Being available without being at everyone's disposal
- Saying no to stay focused on your tasks.
- Giving your team time to maintain collective and individual performance.
- Devoting time to organising the group in order to save time.
Eliminating stress
- Going beyond preconceived ideas about stress: definition and experimentation.
- Identifying the different sources of work stress and detecting the signs.
- Knowing your personal strengths to eliminate stress: accepting and understanding the symptoms.
- Relaxing and motivating yourself: the anti-stress weapon, improving your capacity to recover.
- Using stress to serve action.
- Adopting the basic habits for staying in control of events.
- Choosing the most suitable and least stressful response to a situation.
Let's discuss your training needs
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