Too many tasks, too many emergencies, and the feeling that you're constantly chasing time?
This time and priority management training gives you a simple and immediately applicable method to organize your week, choose your priorities and stick to them, while reducing the stress of work overload.
You leave with tools adapted to your role.
Is it for you ?
This course is for anyone who wants to improve their work organization, better manage their priorities and workload without exhausting themselves. The methods are adapted to your reality and put into practice at the end of the training.
We also offer specific time management training for Managers and Administrative Assistants.
Prerequisites
None.
What You'll Walk Away With
- ✓ Plan your work in the short, medium and long term, centralizing your deadlines in the tool of your choice, so you don't forget anything.
- ✓ Apply clear priority management: choose what to do first thanks to precise criteria and the Eisenhower matrix.
- ✓ Absorb emergencies and unforeseen events without derailing your week.
- ✓ Identify your time crunchers to avoid overloading and stay focused on the essentials.
- ✓ Stick to your day-to-day planning with easy-to-adopt key actions.
This course helps you develop work habits where efficiency and priority management become second nature, giving you greater control over your time.
Training content
1 Diagnosing your time management method
At the end of this module, you will be able to diagnose the method you have developed over time. You will be able to identify, in particular, the best practices that will allow you to better manage your workload and your various tasks and follow-ups.
- To provide an update on current priorities (fiscal year)
- Assess your current workload (exercise)
- Identify your current methods and find solutions adapted to your reality
2 Plan for the short, medium and long term
Planning is the cornerstone of time management. Our approach optimizes it while reducing the time that must be devoted to it. It combines rigor and flexibility. You will also see how to align your IT tools with good planning practices.
- Use your time management and collaboration tools
- Centralize information so that nothing is forgotten
- Viewing time management as a process
- Break up and plan long tasks and complex projects
- Calculate your available time (the time you actually have available) to better absorb the unexpected
- Implementing your new working method
3 Prioritizing: criteria, the Eisenhower Matrix and timeboxing
Prioritization is the soul of time management. It is what gives real meaning to your actions. In this module you will see what criteria should guide you in identifying your priorities.
- Choosing your priority criteria
- Use the Eisenhower Matrix (Important/Urgent)
- Prioritizing value-added activities
- Timeboxing
- Adapt your planning and priorities to your role in the company
4 Stick to your schedule
While it's true that planning is the foundation of time management, it still needs to be respected. This skill is based on a series of golden rules that are key. Adopting or developing them further can make all the difference.
- Initial self-assessment: methods and attitudes
- Identify your personal and team time wasters
- Adopt the key gestures of time management
- Advice sheets and assessment of prior learning
📌 Practical information
Our training sessions are offered in Montreal or Quebec City, in person or in a virtual classroom. Dates and locations are specified when you select your session below. If you have any questions, check out our FAQ.
