Topic 1

My Personality And Time Management

• Using my awareness of personality profiles to improve my time management
• Reflection

Topic 2

Starts With Successful Goal Setting

• It starts with successful goal setting
• Using dart opus goals
• Goals are great
• Don’t miss ‘now’
  • Dart goals
• Now, add your opus – writing goals down using present tense
  • Prioritising your goals
  • Evaluating and re-evaluating
• Setting yourself up for success:
  • Bringing your goals to life by visualising & emotionalising
• Reflection

Topic 3

How I Currently Use My Time

• What Makes up my day?
  • The Glass Jar Analogy (Rocks, Pebbles, Sand, and Water)
  • Where does my time go? Time Audit
• 14 Day Action Challenge: Time Audit
  • Time Log (example)
• Reflection

Topic 4

Get It Done – “The Art Of Doing”

• The Myth of Multi-Tasking
• Myths
  • Surprising (and disturbing) discoveries:
  • Managing Workflow – the 4 D’s
• Overwhelmed?
  • Are you using your mind as a collection point?
• To-Do-List Best Practice
  • 5 Tips for To Do List best practice
  • The amazing Power of Clustering
• Reflection

Topic 5

Prioritise Your Time

• The Story of the Mexican Fisherman & the Banker
• Urgent Important Matrix
• The 80/20 Rule
• A.B.C.D.E. Prioritisation
• Ranking My Priorities
  • The Paired Comparison or ✓ (Tick) Method
• Reflection

Topic 6

Procrasination – How To Beat It

• Why We Procrastinate
• Overcoming Procrastination
• Still Can’t Get Started?
  • Eat That Frog!
  • Ready, Fire, Aim!
  • 5 Minute Rule
• Reflection

Topic 7

The Power Of Routines

• What is a Routine?
  • Personal Routines
  • Professional Routines
  • Using Routines to Maximise Time
  • Maximise Your Productivity
• Reflection

Topic 8

How to Automate Repetitive Actions in Outlook

• What are Quick steps
• Outlook Email – What can Quick Steps Do?
  • Move to:
  • Team Email
  • Create Your Own Quick Step
• What are Quick Parts?
  • Adding a Quick Part
  • Modifying a Quick Part
  • Deleting a Quick Part
  • How do I create Quick Parts in Gmail?
  • FAQ
• Reflection

Topic 9

Reflection

• Remember: The Simple Secret of Successful Time Management
• Course Reflection
• Create an Action Plan
• Accountability = Action
• So, how did we do?
• Some parting thoughts to inspire you
• References