Time Management

In a Nutshell
There are lots of great time management tools and technologies available to managers, but if you haven’t identified the behavioral, cultural and personal traps that show-up in each of us, you’ll continue to perpetuate the time management problems that no tool or technology can fix. This course addresses those barriers and demonstrates tools to overcome them.

Target Audience
For those to whom one or more of the following symptoms apply:

• A never-ending “to do” list
• Feedback that you always seem to be a little “out of control” Meetings where nothing seems to happen
• Not being able to return phone calls within 24 hours
• Having to get to work early and leaving late
• Not being able to follow up on promises you made at a meeting in a timely manner
• Never getting “caught up”
• Having to look at your calendar in order to know what you are doing today
• Meetings that “drag”
• Leaving things at hotels, airports, restaurants, in cabs or rental cars
• Consistently being late to appointments and meetings
• Doing email from 6 AM to midnight
• Not being able to find notes, lists, and important papers
• Paying bills late because you don’t have time to sit down and do it
• Misplacing things
• Meetings where people don’t speak up and then don’t support decisions
• Meetings where no clear path forward is decided upon
• Forgetting appointments, kids events, your significant other’s birthday
• Getting to the car and having to go back for things you forgot

Duration
Three hours to one day

Preliminaries
None

Details
If you could read a book or take a course and follow the recipes for getting organized, you’d already be managing your time well! Managing time is not just about getting organized. If you want a course with a workbook and rules for managing your time, then this is not your course. If you want to understand why time is an issue for you, how you get unorganized, how you keep making decisions that are not in alignment with your priorities, and how to begin to take actions that put sanity back into your work and life, then this is the course for you.

For more information on our approach to Time Management, contact: info@bristleconelearning.com