Practical Personal Effectiveness

Time is the key area of leverage for any Professional. Simply put, time is money. Be you the Business Owner trying to find more time for strategic thought or a front-line Adviser trying just to get everything done, managing your time is often your #1 challenge. Vue Consulting’s In Time experience helps you develop your own robust and practical time management system. Each participant can create a solution customised to their role and personality. This hands-on training overcomes the limits of generic “public” time management training. We combine practical steps to manage emails and interruptions with a simple, but powerful, forwarding planning system. Participants work on common time management issues taken directly from their own business – in order to create a highly customised solution. As In Time is specifically designed for Professionals, there is also extensive focus on email, interruptions, delegation and forward planning.  There is also the opportunity to examine common time management problems within the business and agree team-wide changes, process improvements and priority tasks.  Download an In Time brochure.

In Time will help you...

Learn how to take control of your time and use it in a considered manner.  Plan ahead for projects, meetings and goals.

• Manage interruptions
• Reduce time with email
• Reduce distractions
• Manage information flow
• Control your calendar
• Avoid bottlenecks in planning
• Increase time for strategy
• Use IT effectively
• Manage delegated tasks
• Run better meetings
• Clean up your office

In Time particularly suits Practices or Professionals with...

A heavy reliance on email

You will finally receive training on Outlook (or Lotus Notes) and uncover the true power of modern email software.

A need to plan ahead

You will learn how to quickly schedule your time, foresee bottlenecks and manage projects to deadlines.

A team approach

You will learn to build your own time management system, but also learn a common time language and create solutions for specific time issues in your business.

A focus on prospecting or sales

You will understand how to manage your forward calendar and proactively make time for new client or new business activities.

Delegation to staff or clients

You will develop better delegation abilities, including monitoring delegated tasks (internally or externally) to agreed deadlines.

Constant interruptions

You will examine a variety of ways to push back or manage interruptions from email, the phone, staff, clients and information.

Desire for a total solution

You will review case studies, engage in peer feedback, work on actual tasks from your business and design a complete end-to-end time management system.

In Time Workshop Agenda...

Vue Consulting’s Learning Methodology is called ANALYSE CREATE MOTIVATE, representing the before, during and after stages of a training experience. The CREATE phase includes our Workshops and face-to-face learning. In Time’s CREATE phase involves two half-day Workshops held 3-6 weeks apart. The Workshops cover…

Part 1 - Efficient

• Understand the foundations of successful time management
• Build a simple assessment system
• Manage common interruptions and distractions
• Learn how to better use your email and calendar software

Part 2 - Effective

• Review the actions from Part 1
• Incorporate forward planning into your system, including meetings, projects and delegation
• Build a simple prioritisation system
• Review case studies of common time management systems and refine your system in a “live inbox” activity
• Consider common time management hurdles and how to maintain your system even in difficult circumstances

The ANALYSE (preparation) phase includes preparation activities for management and participants.

The MOTIVATE (follow-up) phase includes online training, email coaching, conference calls and final activities.