Time and Personal Management
Description
Time management is a pivotal ingredient in achieving success at any level. We can all benefit from understanding key elements of time management and how it can help to achieve success and improve workplace and personal performance.
Who should attend?
Anyone interested in improving efficiency and creating ‘more time’, either in a management role or as someone responsible for their own development.
Who will the workshop benefit?
Improvements to performance, health and productivity.
Course Overview
This workshop can be made as theoretical or practical as required by the group and flexible in terms of needs. In order to enable learning outcomes to be achieved in a unique and fun way it will include discussion, debates and a critical exploration of:
- Time Management or Personal Management?
- Prioritising and high leverage tasks
- Planning and getting the balance right
- Setting up ‘Personal Systems’ and knowing distractions from priorities and learning how to deal with them.
- Procrastination - the art of putting things off- what be done about it?
- The Desk and Work Area – functionality
- Dealing with Interruptions
- Hours of Work and Parkinson ’s Law
- Meetings - The great time wasters- Making them more efficient
- Performance review- systematic analysis
Course Facilitator
Mark Pinches followed a successful sales and marketing career in the pharmaceutical industry working with both Glaxo and the American pharmaceutical giant Merck Sharp & Dohme. After moving into a training role, Mark developed a specific interest in management training & development. Mark then gained a Short Service Commission in the British Army and worked for the United Nations as a Senior Operations Liaison Officer before returning to the Army to complete a contract as a Staff Officer at the MOD Headquarters of Doctrine & Training, eventually leaving the Army in the rank of Major.
He has gained over 25 years experience in successfully applying his principles in a vast number of fields ranging from Formula One Motor Racing and Professional Sport through to Heavy Manufacturing and Consultative Sales Teams. Mark also lectures at university and college level and is both an assessor and verifier for all levels of The Institute of Leadership Management (ILM) courses on behalf of Wales’s 2nd largest teaching establishment’s commercial business development wing. He currently specialises in management and leadership development particularly in relation to change and stress management and their impact on performance. During his career, he has worked in a consulting capacity within a number of fields, including banking, information technology, education, local government, health care, insurance, manufacturing, police and emergency services, sales, marketing and the legal profession.
