Improving Personal Effectiveness & Time Management

Tutor: Keith Harper  CPD Hours: 21 hours  Duration: 3 months

Course Cost: £1195

The ability to manage time and prioritise effectively is the most important business skill for anyone to develop because it is central to all that we do at work (and outside it). It is of course particularly important in the legal environment, where the cost of time is so visible. In this environment those with management responsibilities face particular challenges in allocating their time between ‘fees now’, and their duties to the development of the practice and the people they manage.

Starting with an analysis of how you use your time, and what influences your decisions, the course will enable you to establish clear priority areas and short and long-term goals within them. By then applying techniques which suit you and your environment to the allocation of your time, (and of that of those you manage), and further techniques to deal with the things which seek to interrupt and derail your plans, you will become more effective, and probably less stressed!

This course will help you to resolve these typical business problems:

• A dilemma about how you should split your time between fee-earning and management/practice development activities.
• A lack of focus on the ‘Big Picture’ and difficulties with goal setting resulting from a hectic daily schedule.
• A stressful environment within the team/office, due to competing priorities and a lack of coordination.
• Difficulties with delegation resulting in reduced profitability and motivation.
• Client and productivity issues resulting from organisational difficulties.

This course on improving personal effectiveness and time management will give you a clear view of the key areas through which you can/should add value in your role, and how to ensure that you create time to focus on them on a regular basis. It will also give you a clear understanding of how to organise your team in the most effective way to achieve team goals, and avoid a chaotic working environment where the best laid plans are derailed by ‘urgent’ interruptions. This should lead to a less stressful and more profitable working environment.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Analyse your own and your teams time usage in a practical, action oriented way.
• Create clear objectives for you and your team, and a plan to deliver them.
• Create and share a system which will enable you and the team to work in a co-ordinated manner to achieve your goals and minimise wasted time and interruptions.
• Share work and delegate in an effective way.

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