Time management for work: how to be more effective & productive

Practical tips & strategies to improve your time management at work

Course Summary

Time management for work: how to be more effective & productive  
Practical tips & strategies to improve your time management at work

Do you want to be more effective and productive at work?

Do you want to learn more about time management?

Do you want to learn a wealth of time management tips and strategies to use at work? 


Overview

This course is a practical, action oriented course designed to give you the time management tips and strategies to be more effective and productive at work. 

The course aims to give you an insight into time management and the challenges of managing your time and being productive. You will look your own time management challenges and how you are currently spending and managing your time. The course will give you a wealth of time management tips and strategies to use at work to manage your time so that you are more effective and productive. As you go through the course you will develop your own personalised time management action plan and put in place time management strategies so that you can manage your time effectively going forward.

The course is designed to be practical and relevant to real life. It includes straightforward explanations, assignments and lots of tips and strategies as to how to manage your time and be more productive at work. It is not a theoretical or academic course.


Who is this course designed for? 

The course is designed for you if:

* You are currently finding it difficult to effectively manage your time at work.  

* You want to learn more about time management and how to manage your time effectively and be more productive at work.

Please note, I also have two other time management courses which you may prefer to this one. ‘Time management for business owners, directors & managers’ and ‘Time management for life: how to take control of your time’ which may be more relevant to you.  There is an overlap of content between the courses so please just choose one of the three courses.


What are the course aims? 

On this course you will:

* Gain an insight into time management and the challenges of managing your time and being productive.  

* Look at your own time management challenges and how you are currently spending and managing your time.

* Be given a wealth of time management tips and strategies to use at work to manage your time so that you are more effective and productive.  

* Develop a personalised time management action plan and put in place time management strategies so that you manage your time effectively going forward.  


What is included in the course? 

The course has the following sections:

* Introduction: including an introduction to the course and the tutor.

* What is time management? including an introduction to time management, the costs of poor time management and the challenges of managing your time.

* How is your time management? including looking at your own time management challenges and how you are currently spending your time.

* Time management tips and strategies: including lots of practical time management tips and strategies to help you manage your time and be more effective and productive at work. This section also includes an assignment to complete to understand the action you want to take to improve your time management.

* Your time management plan: including your own time management challenges, how you currently spend your time and the actions you are going to take to be more effective and productive at work.

* Course summary: including a short summary of the course.

We have also included introductions and summaries throughout the course to help with learning.

The course is in short bite sized lectures and you can see the detailed course content in the course curriculum.


Practical activities - Developing your own time management plan 

There are exercises to complete as you go through the course to develop your own personalised time management action plan.  You will need to allow additional time in addition to the duration of the videos to complete the time management plan.


What will you learn on the course? 

By the end of the course you will:

* Understand more about time management.

* Know what your time management challenges are and how you are currently spending your time.

* Have access to a wealth of time management tips and strategies to support you in improving your time management going forward.

* Have a personalised action plan in place to be more effective and productive at work.


Important notes and more about the course 

If you are already very knowledgeable about time management, this course may not be for you. It includes an insight into time management and the challenges of managing your time, practical time management tips and strategies that you can use to be more effective effective and productive at work and an opportunity to develop your own time management plan, some or all of which you may already know a lot about.  

You can watch the lectures at your convenience on your computer, tablet or smart phone. You can choose to complete the whole course or just watch the lectures that are most relevant to you, whichever you prefer. You can watch each lecture in full or just the elements you want to watch, and you can stop a lecture at any point if you want to study the content in more detail.


Good luck

Good luck with the course and I hope you find it invaluable. 

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Testimonials

"This is a very helpful short course on time management, with lots of ideas for improvement. Thank you."

"Great course! Learnt a lot of practical tips and hoping to put some of it into practice at work very soon!"

"I found this course having felt overloaded at work in the last few weeks. It has some great practical tips that I can implement straightaway to break down my tasks and time into manageable chunks."

"Very comprehensive and a good approach. Well timed as we are changing roles."

Liz Makin

Liz Makin is an online course instructor specialising in personal development, with courses on anxiety management, coaching, communication, conflict management, people management, resilience, soft skills, stress management, time management and work life balance.

As well as publishing online courses, Liz is an experienced business coach, business mentor and stress management consultant based in England with over 25 years of business experience at senior management and director level, as well as a Masters degree in Coaching and Behavioural Change.

Liz has been running her own business Makin It Happen - Coaching, Mentoring & Stress Management since 2002, which provides business coaching, business mentoring and stress management to business owners, directors, managers and professionals from small and medium sized companies to international organisations.

Liz support clients to maximise the performance of their business, to maximise their own personal performance at work, in dealing with high levels of stress at work or in their business, when going through stressful and challenging times and in managing stress and building resilience to stress over time.

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