This time management online course will help you increase your productivity and efficiency by adapting tried and tested time management practices, tips and theories for you to make the most of your day.

Manage your time more effectively.

This online course is an essential Professional Development course that can help you improve your time management skills, become more organized and help you manage your daily tasks with ease.

Time Management doesn’t always come naturally to people and this course will provide the learner with effective knowledge, skills and understanding of how to manage tasks effectively.

Detailed Course Outline

This course is made up a number of lessons or units. Each of these has self assessment questions, a set task (practical homework) and an assignment which you can upload online.

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Nature & Scope of Time Management

• • Outcomes of Good Time Management
  • Importance of good time management at school or college
  • Importance of good time management at work
  • Importance of good time management at home
  • Links to work/life balance
  • Work/Life Balance & Health
  • Relaxation & Reflection
  • A Few Cautionary Notes

2. Obstacles to Time Management

• • Personal Barriers
  • Identifying your Time Management Personality Type
  • Conscious and unconscious barriers to Time Management
  • The Consequences of Poor Time Management

3. Time Management Strategies

• • Key strategies
  • Planning
  • Setting Goals
  • Time management at home and at work
  • General Tips for Students
  • Time management techniques
  • Pomodoro Technique
  • 45/15
  • Time Boxing
  • Sequential Scheduling – Batches

4. Time Management Assessment Tools

• • Introduction
  • Auditing Your Time
  • Self-Assessment
  • Identifying Your Potential Timewasters

5. Prioritizing Time

• • Introduction to prioritizing
  • How to priorities
  • Techniques for prioritizing
  • Kanban Board
  • Covey’s Time Management Matrix
  • Moscow
  • Workload management skills

6. Maintaining Productivity

• • Measuring Productivity
  • Motivation tools
  • OKR
  • SCRUM
  • Maintaining energy levels

7. Effective Delegation

• • What is delegation?
  • Reasons Why Some Managers Fail to Delegate
  • How can delegation help with time management?
  • Problems Associated with Failure to Delegate
  • Micromanagement & Poor Time Management
  • When to delegate
  • Benefits of Delegation
  • How to delegate
  • Some delegation Tools

8. Other Time Management Tools

• • Changing Mindset
  • Some Habits to Try and Avoid
  • Other time management tools
  • Staying on Track with calendars & planners

When you have completed the lessons of your Certificate course, you will be given the option of taking the optional exam. It’s okay if you don’t want the exam, we still issue your Careerline Certificate. For Advanced Certificates however, the exam is compulsory (per module) and are included in the course fee.