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Time Management, Meetings & Delegation

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Monday, 22 March 2010 (9:00am – 4:30pm)

Cowbridge , South Wales

£199

Please click here if you'd like to find out about running this course in-house.

Notes:

As part of the preparation for the course, delegates will be asked to analyse how they spent their time in a week preceeding the course.

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Module details

Overview:

All of us are short of time:

  • too many meetings
  • too much to do
  • too many interruptions

This course will help you to make better use of your time

Learning Objectives:

  • Develop skills and tactics required for running and contributing to meetings
  • How to manage expectations
  • Improve the handling and managing difficult people
  • Learn to say “no”
  • Use the Time Management Matrix
  • Understand the steps involved in succesful delegation

Course Content:

This course starts with best practice for the activity that consumes most time - meetings. We help you to use meetings to save time, to share ideas and information and to solve problems.

The course then provides a framework for how you can analyse your time to prioritise actions and to focus on the things that matter.

Finally, we help you to develop your skills of getting things done through people - the art of delegation.

Feedback:

  • Excellent ideas about how to overcome some of the key problems with managing time
  • Very useful and practical tips for managing tricky situations and difficulties in meetings
  • Good advice on how to implement better time management and balance workload
  • Lots of insight and information about communication, task management and time management

Click for more feedback:

  • It provided a good overview of meeting behaviour
  • Practical tips on participating in meetings and being diplomatic
  • Tactics on setting agenda, handling difficult meetings and individuals
  • Some very useful time management techniques
  • Some very useful pointers on how to challenge a failing meeting
  • I learnt how to reduce time wastage and more effective meeting participation and preparation
  • It has provided me with ways of identifying ways to determine effectiveness/necessity of meetings
  • All facets of being a chair or a participant at a meeting are important but most of the time common sense and interpersonal skills prevail
  • I learnt that it's OK to say no, by being assertive, to attending meetings

Leader:

Terry Dennis

NHS KSF Assessment

Core Dimensions

Dimension

Value

1 Communication

4

2 Personal and people development:

4

4 Service Improvement:

4

5 Quality:

4

6 Equality and diversity:

3
Specific Dimensions: Information and Knowledge

Dimension

Value

IK2 Information collection and analysis:

3

IK3 Knowledge and information resources:

3
Specific Dimensions: General

Dimension

Value

G1 Learning and develepment:

3

G2 Development and innovation:

2

G5 Services and project management:

4

G6 People management:

2

G7 Capacity and capability:

4

G8 Public relations and marketing:

3

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