Time Management and Personal Effectiveness course

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

• To help participants manage time better (their own and other people’s)
• To provide an opportunity for participants to explore the skills and principles of time-management and exchange ideas, tips and techniques
• To provide an opportunity for participants to take stock of their current working practices and decide on an action-based strategy to ‘work smarter’
• To encourage participants to be proactive in their continuous professional development and to provide them with a range of tools to support their learning

PROGRAM OUTLINE

Day 1 - Dimensions of Time Management & Personal Effectiveness

• Programme introduction and objectives
• Action planning and enhancing personal and team effectiveness
• Making the most of office technology
• Chronistic intelligence
• Time-stealers and costs of poor time management
• Priority setting – rational and emotional approaches
• Ten principles of effective time management
• Handling and making requests
• Behavioural analysis and time management

Day 2 - Personal Planning Systems /  Interruptions / Project Planning/Stress

• Getting the best from diaries and to-do lists
• Proactive planning to meet key responsibilities
• Developing time-based planning – daily, weekly, monthly plans etc
• Handling interruptions – developing a time sensitive culture
• Planning project-type work
• Principles of Critical Path Analysis and implications for priority setting
• Understanding stress
• Managing stress in self and others
• Dealing with change – taking and getting a positive response

Day 3 - Getting the Best from Other People / Communication  / Meeting Skills

• Delegation – giving and receiving
• Team-working and team building
• Improving communication and working relationships
• Assertiveness
• Effective and efficient meetings – ‘everybody’s a chairbody’

Day 4 - Office Ergonomics / Managing Information / Efficient Reading & Writing

• Optimising the office environment
• Handling the paper-load and developing paperless systems
• Managing e-mails
• Improving the efficiency of management reporting
• Using and developing relational databases
• Business writing and the principles of ‘rapid composition’
• Rapid and efficient reading – digesting and retaining  information
• Mind-mapping

Day 5 - Developing Creativity / Continuous Improvement / Self-Development

• Developing creativity in self and others
• How the brain works and creative thinking techniques
• Developing a culture of continuous improvement
• Implementing change initiatives
• Influencing skills – making a case and managing the ‘politics’
• Continuing professional development – a proactive approach
• Programme review and action plans

General Notes

•          All our courses can be Tailor-made to participants needs
•          The participant must be conversant with English
•          Presentations are well guided, practical exercise, web based tutorials and group work. Our facilitators are expert with more than 10years of experience.
•          Upon completion of training the participant will be issued with Foscore development center certificate (FDC-K)
•          Training will be done at Foscore development center (FDC-K) center in Nairobi Kenya. We also offer more than five participants training at requested location within Kenya, more than ten participant within east Africa and more than twenty participant all over the world.
•          Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.
•          The course fee includes facilitation training materials, 2 coffee breaks, buffet lunch and a Certificate of successful completion of Training. Participants will be responsible for their own travel expenses and arrangements, airport transfers, visa application dinners, health/accident insurance and other personal expenses.
•          Accommodation, pickup, freight booking and Visa processing arrangement, are done on request, at discounted prices.
•          One year free Consultation and Coaching provided after the course.
•          Register as a group of more than two and enjoy discount of (10% to 50%) plus free five hour adventure drive to the National game park, in Nairobi.
•          Payment should be done two week before commence of the training, to FOSCORE DEVELOPMENT CENTER account, so as to enable us prepare better for you.
•          For any enquiry at:[email protected] or +254712260031
•          Website:www.fdc-k.org