Time management & personal effectiveness
Training fee including food, lodging and tourism: $3,000.
Persons who cannot join the training on the scheduled date can have it on a date convenient to them either online or in person but are required to give Sopodiva a six-week notice prior to their chosen date.
Session Duration: 14-18 April 2025 & 22-26 September 2025
Introduction
Good time management is at the very heart of personal effectiveness as well as organizational success. Everybody most especially a manager needs to make the best of their own time and talent and those of the people around them if they, the team and organisation are to achieve their objectives and business goals. If you can’t manage time, you can’t manage anything.
This intensive and comprehensive Sopoprof training course provides professionals with the opportunity to explore the fundamental principles of time management, take stock of their current working practices and determine action to enhance personal, team and organisational effectiveness.
Emphasis is placed not only on managing one’s own time but also on helping other people to manage theirs. This Sopoprof training course also focuses on the skill sets of personal effectiveness – such as the use of English language corporate communication, effective business writing skills, efficient reading, managing information overload and proactive self-development.
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
- To help participants manage time better (their own and other people’s)
- To provide an opportunity for participants to explore the skills and principles of time-management and exchange ideas, tips and techniques
- To provide an opportunity for participants to take stock of their current working practices and decide on an action-based strategy to ‘work smarter’.
- To encourage participants to be proactive in their continuous professional development and to provide them with a range of tools to support their learning
- To expose participants most especially the non-English speakers to the use of time related expressions and vocabularies.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS SOPOPROF TRAINING WORKSHOP?
All professionals and workers at all levels within organisations, who have some decision-making power over how to manage time to meet organizational objectives.
WORKSHOP OUTLINE
MORNING SESSION
- Programme introduction and objectives
- Action planning and enhancing personal and team effectiveness
- Making the most use of office technology to maximise the use of time
- Time-stealers and costs of poor time management
- Priority setting – rational and emotional approaches
- principles of effective time management
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION
- Identify key vocabularies, tenses and time prepositions used during the morning session and video discussions on good and bad time management at office.
- Making the best use of diaries and to-do lists
- Proactive planning to meet key responsibilities.
- Developing time-based planning – daily, weekly, monthly plans etc
- Handling interruptions – developing a time sensitive culture
- Understanding stress
- Managing stress in self and others
- Dealing with change – taking and getting a positive response
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION
- Case study discussion with participants to create more avenue for them to employ vocabularies and time expressions discovered during the previous sessions as well employ their newly acquired time management skills to provide resolutions for the issues identified in the case.
Sample case study.
Case Study – Before
Phil is finding that there are less and less hours in the day, the workload is the same, but he feels more rushed than ever. He finds himself eating his lunch at his workstation and feels demotivated during the last two hours of his shift. He works in a busy office environment with lots of noise and distractions, this he feels has some detrimental impact on his workload, one of his colleagues asks him for help on a regular basis and this is also eating up his time, but he doesn’t want to come across as ignorant so is always ready to help. He worries that his inability to complete all his goals will start impacting on the business and his next review, this has caused his stress levels to increase and he starting to struggle to sleep at night.
- Delegation – giving and receiving
- Team-working and team building
- Improving communication and working relationships
- Assertiveness
- Effective and efficient meetings – ‘everybody’s a chair body’.
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION
Task participants to hold a meeting within a specified period to discuss issues confronting a business in a case study. The essence of this exercise is to measure how much of an impact the workshop has had on participants so far with regard to their behaviour towards time management.
- Optimising the office environment
- Handling the paper-load and developing paperless systems
- Managing e-mails
- Improving the efficiency of management reporting
- Business writing and the principles of ‘rapid composition’
- Rapid and efficient reading – digesting and retaining information.
- Mind-mapping
LATE AFTERNOON SESSION
- Participants shall be asked to read a text and or listen to an audio for information and share their individual comprehensions with others.
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
This is an exciting and interactive training course which combines case studies, management games and simulations, discussion exercises, self-assessment instruments and video training films. The emphasis throughout is practical and on identifying and taking action to enhance personal and organisational effectiveness.
SOPOPROF TOUR
- Day One after lunch- a trip to Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum
- Day Two after lunch- a trip to university of Ghana Balme Library
- Day three after lunch-Accra Mall for a movie
- Day Four participants catch some rest for a much busier day on day 5.
- Day5- A return trip to a tourist site outside Accra or industrial visit within Accra (Lunch may be carried along or have it at a nearby restaurant).
DEPARTURE OF PARTICIPANTS
Participants leave on day six as all the programs would have ended on day five.
