Take Charge of Time and Resources
– effective planning for leaders
| Effective planning for leaders – it sounds easy, but that is not always the case! The vast majority of today’s leaders are responsible for operations and personnel, which can be difficult to juggle. How much time should you spend on one thing rather than another? And how do you manage your own day-to-day life as a leader, whilst making yourself available as a sparring partner for your staff whenever necessary? |
This course gives you simple tools and inspiration for optimal use of time and resources in your busy life – both yours and those of your staff. You will take charge of your habits (both the good and the bad), your prioritisation and your time-wasters.
Flexible Learning
This course is offered with Flexible Learning – an innovative learning concept from Mannaz. Before the course starts, you are asked to write a preparatory test that gives you the best foundation for a rewarding course. After the course you can complete three additional e-learning modules with a view to retaining what you have learned.
Participants
This course is aimed at leaders who are looking for tools and inspiration for optimal use of their time and resources – their own and those of their staff.
You are ready to become more efficient on a day-to-day basis and to shake up your planning habits.
| Are you not a leader/project manager? Then you could benefit from looking at the course “Plan Your Own Work” instead. Read more about it here |
Benefit
You will get ideas for creating more structure and a greater overview of your busy everyday life as a leader, so that the daily planning becomes easier to handle – to the benefit of yourself and your staff.
From a leadership point of view, you will get better at establishing an overview of the tasks that are at play and at putting each task into perspective – for yourself and your staff.
You will also get an overview of your various roles – professional, managerial and personal – and you will establish short- and long-term goals for each of them.
You will learn to:
- Prioritise consciously in relation to the importance and deadline of each task
- Set goals for specific tasks – yours and those of your staff
- Plan tasks that are clearly defined – estimate time consumption and resource consumption better
- Identify and minimise the scope of time-wasters
- Delegate situationally – and, in addition, delegate the responsibility for planning
- Focus on balancing your work/life
Your company will gain an employee who:
- Has an overview of their own tasks and those of others on a day-to-day basis
- Can realistically estimate time consumption and resource consumption
- Is good at delegating tasks and responsibilities to staff
- Can prioritise tasks according to a calculated strategy
Course content
This course is basically about you gaining an insight into your own habits and working methods in relation to planning and time and resource management (for yourself in your role as a leader and for your staff).
Topics for the two days of facilitation:
- Your own habits
- A/B/C/D – prioritisation
- Planning – both short term and long term (planning with DUE CARE, Mind Map, Gantt chart)
- Effective situational delegation
- Take charge of the time-wasters!
- Balance your work/life
- How to deal with stress on a day-to-day basis
This course is based on your own tasks, your personal goals and your own challenges in the area of planning.
Learning method
Prior to the course, you will be given access to the e-learning platform Mannaz Flexible Learning. The preparatory work consists of:
- The “My Planning Profile” test. The purpose of the test is to prepare you for the course in general and to give you an opportunity to reflect upon your relationship to the three most important topics on the course: prioritisation, time-wasters and planning. You will take stock of your own strengths and focus areas in relation to each of the three topics.
- Questionnaire about your own planning, wishes and success criteria.
- Introduction to analysis of your personal interruptions.
- Introduction to devising an overview of your own tasks.
The purpose of the assignments is for you to get a feel for the content of the course and to gather specific knowledge that you can continue to work with on the course. Moreover, the replies on the questionnaire allow the facilitator to be prepared for expectations and needs.
The course is practically orientated – you will be able to use what you learn immediately after the course. The course is built on theory, plenary discussions, and individual and group assignments. We take our starting point in the participants’ own work tasks and time-related problems, as well as the challenge of being a good role model in your planning.
After the course you will have access to three additional e-learning modules that provide inspiration for retaining the effect of the course in various ways.
- Approximately one week after the course, you will have access to the “Break the Habit” module, the purpose of which is to help you break undesirable habits. In addition, you will have access to the “Star Moments” module, which gives you a tool to reflect upon star moments in your everyday life and, in this way, gain energy for other tasks.
- Approximately two months after the course, you will get the “Hold On” module, which will help you retain your development through inspiration, dilemma role-plays, quizzes and more.
Additional consultancy
For additional consultancy and personal sparring, please contact product manager Merete Bernhardtsen by calling +45 4517 6119 or send an email.
Facilitator
On this course, you will meet facilitator and consultant Mariann Bach Nielsen.
Mariann Bach Nielsen is very good at engaging the participants and has a high level of facilitation and a great ability to empathise. She writes professional books on planning and personal development and plans thoroughly by applying the methods that she teaches. The facilitator ensures that you will get a good, solid foundation for working with your own planning and your habits – thereby letting you take charge of your time and resources.
Mariann Bach Nielsen also facilitates the course “Plan Your Own Work”.
Related courses
Other courses that focus on efficiency, task/resource management and handling of daily demands include:
The price includes
Before the course
- Invitation to a free two-hour meeting on “Good Learning”
- E-learning: preparatory exercises prior to the course
- Questionnaire to be completed prior to the course
During the course
- 2 days of facilitation
- 1 facilitator All meals during the course
- Max. 16 participants
- The book Plan Better – Get More Time
- PrioBoard, markers and other material
- Exercises, templates and models for your personal planning
After the course
- Checklist for meeting your goals, cf. your own action plan
- E-learning after the course