Time and Stress Management Skills

Course details

“I don’t have time!” How often have we heard these words? We have even said it ourselves. Take a moment and reflect. How often have we wasted our time away without realising it? Thus, a better understanding and awareness of how we spend our time and learning the technique to help us improve our time management would help us to be more focused and spend our time productively. After all, time is a scarce and valuable resource.

How Will You Benefit?

After the workshop, you will be able to:

• have a better knowledge of the effects of stress and the need to manage stress
• identify the time wasters in your life
• apply the techniques in managing yourself to better manage the time to reduce the stress and be more effective in your work

What Will You Learn?

Introduction to Stress

• stress vs stressors
• negative effects of stress
• positive effects of stress-management

Managing Stress and Time Management

• manage yourself
• taking charge
• practice CIP
• understanding the 2 circles in your life
• practice optimism
• avoid procrastination
• why people procrastinate
• ways to avoid/correct the most common forms of procrastination

Organise your workload to prevent over commitment

• the COR approach
• 80/20 rule
• gaining focus
• urgent vs important
• weekly planning and daily dos list

Getting trapped in your anger

Handle interruptions

• time log
• learning to use the 'straight' or 'soft' No to persistent offenders