ITD time management training
Time management training helps you achieve a good work life balance

Time management training

Our time management training will result in you improving the way you use your time. This can mean getting things done in less time or using your time at work more efficiently. It can also impact many areas such as, how you interact with others, how long you spend on emails or documents and what type of work you focus on. It will help with managing interruptions, dealing with procrastination and a host of other time management challenges.

The course works for  all roles including office based, remote working, and people on the road.

The training works for people who’ve just started in the workplace, as well as more experienced and senior roles like managers and directors.

The session is 3 hours long, which gives plenty of time for you to gain very valuable ideas on how to improve your efficiency.

The training is tailored to your needs in two steps. Firstly, before the session, we ask for your challenges and the areas you’d like to improve on. And in the training itself, we discuss ideas to address those challenges and talk them through.

This is a virtual training workshop and works with participants from anywhere in the world. Whether that be from Singapore, Hong Kong, The Middle East, Europe, or North and South America.

Our time management training works for groups of up to 12 participants, or as a one-to-one coaching session.

The trainer is very experienced, having worked with many organisations and people at all levels. Have a look at our training reviews to see what previous participants have said.

Also have a read of some of our client case studies to get a feel for our approach.

If you’d like to know more and get a proposal with costs, simply complete the form below and we’ll get back to you within 24 hours.

Reviews

Very engaging and practical

Rated 5.0 out of 5
October 17, 2024

enjoyable and very useful training on how to do virtual presentations! Martin was very engaging throughout, which really helped us understand and practice the tips.

Zeng Hanyi

Super training from Martin, as is the norm

Rated 5.0 out of 5
September 30, 2024

Martin Chapman delivered yet another very useful, interesting training on Resilience and Well-being for me and some of my colleagues. His easy, engaging manner ensures that the time flies by; the hour and a half session is always filled with good ideas, tips and humour.

R. Forbes

Presenting Virtually

Rated 5.0 out of 5
September 19, 2024

Martin C. is a fantastic trainer!

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Check out what participants have said about ITD on our Training Reviews page.

Time management training agenda

Personal challenges

Participants discuss their challenges with time management, so that the training session can provide ideas and strategies to focus on these.

Personality

Following the pre-course work participants reflect on their personality, and how this can have a huge impact on our use of time..

Prioritising

We review different approaches to improve prioritisation, in other words making sure you do the right work first.

Planning

Planning can have a positive influence on your time management. We explore how to plan effectively, above all as a key way to control how you use your time more efficiently.

Email management

Managing interruptions can be a key to improving effectiveness, none more so than with emails. So we explore behavioural techniques to improve this area.

Working from home

Working from home has distinct challenges which are impacted by personal circumstances. For instance if you are on you own, this is very different to those who have family members, especially children, to share the work space with. 

Habits

Continuing the behavioural approach, we review each participants habits, exploring how they are formed and how to work with them. After that each participant explores new habits to implement.

Interruptions

Some interruptions are part of the job, however many are not. And we explore how to manage interruptions successfully.

Meetings

Meetings both live and virtual can absorb huge amounts of time. This means improving meeting management has a big impact for many people.

Pre-workshop activity

Participants complete the ITD Work Style Model and receive a short explanation of the model, which means they start thinking about the impact of personality on their time management.

they are also asked to share their challenges with the trainer, so that the agenda can focus on the areas of most need.

Post workshop activity

You will receive an email summarising their actions from the training, in order to continue the learning experience.

You also have optional one to one coaching and conference call follow up in addition to the workshop.

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Do we manage time or ourselves?

We tailor the training content to suit your needs

1. We will discuss the typical time management challenges of your people, to make the training relevant and practical.

2. We then design a draft training agenda, suggested time-scale and proposal including budgets, which focusses on your needs.

3. During the training workshop we ask participants for updates on their challenges, so that we tailor the content in the moment as well.

Typical challenges of our participants

We  ask you for your specific needs or challenges so that we can tailor our time management workshop to suit you. This means you get the best training experience for you. Here are some challenges of previous participants.

Time Management and your personality

Managing time effectively is often impacted by our personality. Using the ITD work style model, which is easy to understand and simple to apply, we can identify some typical issues.  

Direct – the direct person is impatient, gets things done and doesn’t want to waste time. But they may start things without enough planning and then find some time later there is a better way to do it, so have to start again.  

Analytical – the analytical person likes to really know a subject, enjoy detail and accuracy. But because they like to get things right and because they fear failure, decision making can be slow. And they may change things, make amendments, again and again, without any material difference.  

Conceptual – the conceptual person likes change, prefers doing new projects rather than routine and is a good problem solver. But this personality may lead to them re-inventing the wheel, when the wheel works fine. And whilst they show energy in starting new projects, they typically aren’t so good at finishing them.  

Social – the social person needs to work with people and is a good team worker, notices people’s moods and is sensitive to others. But they may be too ready to be helpful and say yes! They will say yes to everything, which can be a problem if they already have enough work to do and then accept more, resulting in quality dipping, or they are late to leave the office.

Our personalities have a huge impact on how we go about our work. Learning about ourselves can be a great first step in taking control of time. Explore some of the background reading we recommend to our time management training

Time Management Training Client Case Studies

Practical workshop

Time management training from ITD will help you to become more efficient. We can help you to manage tasks rather than tasks managing you. Our training will help lower your stress levels, using our unique action planning tool we will help you make the behavioural changes you want to make.

We deliver our time management training within the context of realistic pressures of work performance. This is a practical session which means you will be working on your challenges in the training.

Our time management training is tailored to your needs to help develop practical actions for your situation. Our problem solving workshop style is ideal to help you improve, not just learn the theories as with so many time management training courses

We identify the underlying causes

The ITD approach to time management skills training is to look for the underlying causes of time management issues. We also explore behaviours that can create pressures on ourselves. This is achieved because the workshop focuses on each individual’s approach to their work and how this can unlock opportunities to be more time efficient.

There are also a range of very straight forward tips which can have a big impact on time management. In our experience no single approach works for every individual. In a typical ITD time management training workshop we work with your people to find the best solution for them, so that each participant leaves with a number of specific actions to improve their efficiency.

Added to this you will benefit from our unique approach to action planning which supports the behavioural change required to make a real difference.

Client Case Study - example

The Charity Aid Foundation connects donations with charities, transforming the way donations are made online.

The team we worked with service clients both internally and externally. And whilst resources are limited there is no shortage of demands on their time.

Their manager noticed how busy the team had become and asked ITD to help with time management training to ensure the team were equipped to handle the amount of work they had.

Background

The team have found increased demand for their services by external and internal clients. With increased demand comes increased pressure as the team want to maintain their high quality of service.

Need

The team manager recognised the team’s commitment to quality and increasing quantity of work. The need to be as efficient as possible became very visible. The needs for training can be summarised as; The ability to manage expectations of less urgent requests but relatively demanding individuals; To ensure work is being managed as efficiently as possible in its flow through the department; To give each individual a look in the mirror on their skills and personal and inter-personal efficiency. ITD’s problem solving workshop approach to time management training was felt to be ideal.

Activity

We designed a one day time management training session to be based on discussion, individual tasks and team work. Follow up was a session where each individual presented the results of implementing their actions to their manager and the training consultant. Content of the training was based on the individual’s challenges and pressures brought into the training room.  The session looked to answer the participants’ challenges including:

  • How do I manage someone’s expectations who is quite pushy?
  • What can I do to become more efficient?
  • How do I prioritise seemingly similar work?
  • How can I do my job in work hours and leave without feeling guilty?

Subjects covered:

  • Uncovering the underlying issues behind time management challenges.
  • Your job role and your objectives.
  • Prioritising theories applied to your work.
  • Managing interruptions politely.
  • Assertiveness applied to internal clients, colleagues and our line manager.
  • Managing emails.
  • Planning your day, week, month.
  • Reducing stress.
  • Taking control of your work flow.
  • Managing meetings efficiently.
  • How to reduce the number of meetings you go to.

Outcomes

The main outcomes of this session were:

  • Each person gained valuable tips and ideas on how they could improve through the time management training
  • The team learnt new ways of becoming more assertive with clients.
  • Each participant discussed their personal challenges in an open learning atmosphere which lead to real progress in exploring their work style.
  • The team found new ways of becoming more efficient.

Participant Feedback

  • “Very good time management training which really showed me how to become more efficient”
  • “I learnt about how being assertive can help me and help the client”
  • “It’s amazing how just seemingly quite small training tips can have a big impact on my time”

Client Comment

  • “I am really pleased with the training and the value my guys have got from it” CAF Team Manager.
  • “ITD did exactly what I asked of them and more, and my internal client is very happy.” CAF Training Manager.

Time management training from ITD

At ITD we have a unique approach to time management training, by giving you the ideas to improve, plus the behavioural change insights to implement them. You know how difficult it can be to implement new behaviours even when you know they are good for you; exercise, diets, personal development. Our approach works with you to make the changes which are most important to you to improve productivity.

Time management training from ITD will help you to become more efficient, develop a sense of managing tasks rather than tasks managing you, and lower stress levels. Using our unique action implementation tool we will help you make the behavioural changes you desire.

Our time management training is tailored to your needs to help develop practical actions for your situation. Our problem solving workshop style is ideal to help you improve, not just learn the theories as with so many time management training courses.

What is time management training about? Here is how previous participants on our training have described it.

  • “Improving efficiency, by helping me take control of how I manage tasks.”
  • “The ability to deliver results in the time available, through working with my personality”
  • “It is always possible to become more efficient in how we organise ourselves and our work and this training gives me tools for doing this.”
  • “Better prioritisation, by using prioritising tools.”

Training Follow Up

Our WhatsApp WorkCoach follow up to training gives you access to the trainer after the course. Just send a voice note or message with your query and get a timely response.

Start a conversation

Call +44 (0)800 804 8086 to discuss how our time management training could help your people

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