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Managing Time™ | Time Management Training Activity
Diary planning, prioritising, delegating and common sense. Can teams score 100%?
Shows that managers cannot do everything themselves
Allows teams to practise prioritising and delegation skills
Highlights the need to identify the best person for a delegated task
Stresses the need to be realistic and show common sense when time planning
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£450
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- Type Training Activity
- Timing 1.5 hours + debrief
- Use F2F & Virtual
- Target Audience All Levels
- Min Participants 3
- Max Participants* 24
- *More delegates? Contact Us
- Computer Required Yes (1)
- Printer Required Optional
- Supply Format Hard & Digital Copy
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Northgate says...
"Teams are aiming for a score of 70% or more! Excellent 70-100% Good 60-69% Average 50-59% Poor 40-49% Very poor 0-39% It’s surprising how often teams miss scheduled appointments, delegate without checking diaries and delegate to the wrong person!"
- Shows that managers cannot do everything themselves
- Allows teams to practise prioritising and delegation skills
- Highlights the need to identify the best person for a delegated task
- Stresses the need to be realistic and show common sense when time planning
- Shows the need to be aware of what your staff are doing, when they are available and when they are overworked
Ideally suited to:
Time management courses, to give a hands-on, learning-by-doing component, where delegates can practise their skills - and get a score to indicate performance.
Teams represent Robin Self, a manager who is planning their time for the next four week period. Robin already has some meetings scheduled in the diary. As well as allowing space for routine work, there are 26 tasks - some with clear deadlines, that must either be scheduled into the diary or delegated to one of Robin's staff of three. Teams are given the necessary background information on Robin and the staff - and told to ask if they need further information. There are in fact 10 pieces of information (eg staff diaries), but will teams ask?
Can they identify which tasks Robin should do - in an already busy schedule? Of tasks that can be delegated, which staff member is best suited and who has spare capacity? Will they over-crowd diaries or plan well? Will they try to rearrange existing schedules? Will they know which tasks to prioritise? Do they appreciate the difference between urgent and important?
Teams complete two forms (Robin's Timetable and a Delegation Form). The data from these is checked by the computer program, which then supplies each team with a full report on their time management - and awards scores. A Debrief follows.
- Briefly introduce the activity using the PowerPoint presentation provided and arrange group in 1, 2, 3 or 4 teams.
- Issue the Team Briefs, Delegation Sheet and Robin's Diary.
- Observe teams in action, but do not get involved.
- Be ready to receive information requests. Eg the staff diaries, re-scheduling existing meetings, and 'other languages' spoken by Wendy?
- Meanwhile, start the computer program and enter the number of teams participating.
- At the 90 minute point, or before, collect teams' forms and transfer data to the computer program for analysis.
- Issue the final reports and scores to teams. Announce the winning team.
- Lead a discussion to draw out the key learning points and complete Action Plans.
Full guidance supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.
Hard & Digital Copy
- ☑️ Hard copy pack supplied
- ☑️ Program supplied (internet access required)
- ☑️ PDFs supplied
Digital Copy
- ☑️ Program supplied (internet access required)
- ☑️ PDFs supplied
Contents
- Trainer’s Notes
- Computer Program (internet access required)
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Team Briefs
- Data Request Forms
- Sets of three Staff Timetables
- Robin’s Timetable Forms
- Delegation Forms
This activity is for face-to-face and virtual classroom use. The digital files are supplied via the Northgate Trainerhub.
Our licence offering is designed to provide exceptional value and flexibility for your organisational training needs.
Upon purchase, each Northgate activity includes a five-year licence for repeat use, with up to a maximum number of delegates per training session. The maximum number of delegates for this activity is 24 per licence. This grants you the freedom to use the activity repeatedly, with the specified maximum number of delegates, for five years.
All Learning and Development (L&D) professionals based at the same site (or
‘remote hub’) as you are granted access to these resources, including to the digital files on the Trainerhub via your site-specific Trainer Dashboard, fostering a collaborative spirit within your immediate team.
Should you wish to make this activity available to a wider audience within your organisation, additional licences are required. We understand the varying needs of different organisations and aim to provide flexible options to suit your requirements.
For further information on our licence terms, please contact us. We are here to assist you in enhancing your training initiatives and ensuring a seamless and hassle-free licensing experience.
To use with more than 24 or for multiple site licences please contact us for a quote.
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Annie Lindsay, Director, Tickety-Boo Training I have just completed the 'Managing Time' activity today during a Leadership and Management programme. The feedback as usual was absolutely excellent. It is an intense interactive activity and sets the scene perfectly for deeper conversations about time management and delegation. The review questionnaires allow the groups to take part in an in depth self-reflection activity and the ability to send the computer report straight to the delegates' email addresses for additional review and action planning is an impressive feature.
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Michael Shane, Newcastle College Used with staff at all levels - 'Managing Time' has worked brilliantly and really sticks in people's minds. Love it! Easy to use and effective - great value for money.
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Anne Grove, Global Head - HR & Development , Cmed Ltd I use 'Managing Time' as the opening activity in our Supervision & Delegation training - for those new(ish) to line management and supervisory roles. It's challenging but flexible as it can be debriefed in various ways depending on the needs/interests of the group. Brilliant! Northgate is my favourite provider of learning activities.
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Annie Lindsay, Director, Tickety-Boo Training I have just completed the 'Managing Time' activity today during a Leadership and Management programme. The feedback as usual was absolutely excellent. It is an intense interactive activity and sets the scene perfectly for deeper conversations about time management and delegation. The review questionnaires allow the groups to take part in an in depth self-reflection activity and the ability to send the computer report straight to the delegates' email addresses for additional review and action planning is an impressive feature.
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Michael Shane, Newcastle College Used with staff at all levels - 'Managing Time' has worked brilliantly and really sticks in people's minds. Love it! Easy to use and effective - great value for money.
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Anne Grove, Global Head - HR & Development , Cmed Ltd I use 'Managing Time' as the opening activity in our Supervision & Delegation training - for those new(ish) to line management and supervisory roles. It's challenging but flexible as it can be debriefed in various ways depending on the needs/interests of the group. Brilliant! Northgate is my favourite provider of learning activities.