Time Management for Managers: Mastering Your Priorities

This training offers proven methods and tools to prioritise both your own and your team's needs effectively. As a manager, your effectiveness is interdependent on the effectiveness of your team.

Your time management has an impact on that of your team and vice versa. The training enables you to take action on the personal and collective dimensions of your time management. A diagnosis of your time allows you to objectively measure your points of support and your areas for progress in order to optimise your personal time management.

Before

Digital learning activities to prepare yourself for the training and its implementation:

• Defining your training objectives
• Conducting a self-assessment of your skills

During - Group Session

1 - Putting time at the service of your priorities

• Clarifying your role as manager and your room for manoeuvre to optimise your time and that of your team
• Giving meaning to the priorities of each team member
• Identifying activities with high added value for yourself and your team
• Moving from time under pressure to time of your choosing: distinguishing between urgency and importance and building your matrix of priorities

In practice: personal analysis of activities and prioritisation planning for the upcoming weeks


2 - Mastering the art of effective organisation

• Identifying the classic time management traps and practice spotting your personal time devils
• Organising your time using the six levers of efficiency: priorities, choice, planning, energy, focus, relationship
• Applying a method for getting the essential things done in times of overload
• Dealing with emergencies and unforeseen events with discernment and realism

In practice: resolving the issues caused by the time thieves of the group. Addressing the challenge of your 'To-do List'


3 - Optimising your time as a manager

• Delegating effectively for yourself and your collaborators
• Managing your availability with the team - and with others
• Managing the manager's work overload
• Optimising time for strategic thinking and in-depth issues
• Optimising the team's time: meetings, decision-making, working methods

In practice: role-playing for successful delegation. Anticipating implementation in the professional environment

After 

Digital learning activities to facilitate the implementation of your learning in the workplace:

• Ready-to-use tools
• Micro-practicing programme by email

Assessment 

An online questionnaire to assess your acquired skills